Amblecote Community Church

 Living  in a digitally connected world has dramatically changed the way we  live. Never before have we been so instantly connected  with people, places, entertainment, news and information. But how does  this affect the way we live out our faith? This Sunday we’ll look at how  the online world affects our lives, and how we can live out our faith  online. 

Did you know we have a young leaders program at ACC? Check out this podcast where Tim interviews our youth worker Natalie and one of our young leaders Esther about camping in the rain, developing leadership skills, mission week and our young leader program. Join us as we talk with Natalie Start our youth worker and Esther Whittall one of our young leaders on camping in the rain, mission week and a...

 “Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says.”(James 1 v 22)  For  the Word of God to be fruitful and meaningful in our lives it must find  its way out into our daily practices, routines, relationships and  activities. It cannot remain as something we simply listen to, we need  be doers of the Word and not hearers only.   However, all of us in diff...

Summer  is a great time to gather together to declare the greatness of our God  and encourage each other in our Christian walk. This Sunday we took some time to come around the Table of the Lord  taking communion  together. We took time to consider Jesus’  sacrifice on the cross, and to celebrate that through His life, death  and resurrection Sin and death were defeat...

 Can we reach this next generation as The Church in the Black Country?  Who is responsible for this?  What could the impact be…? The Love Black Country Next Gen Champion role is nearly a year old now!  It has been full of challenges and many, many blessings.  On Sunday 21st July I will be unpacking some of these questions with you, as well as some of my experiences this ye...

We all familiar with the first two commandments ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’ and ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’   This Sunday our ‘Justice Service’ asks ‘who is our neighbour?’ Is it the lady next door, the family down the road or the stranger living in a different country? How do we love our neighbour as ourselves? One way is...

 Growing up in a Pentecostal church in the 70’s and 80’s ‘faith’ was a subject much talked about. I witnessed many great evangelists with a healing ministry, saw some remarkable miracles and always wished I had the same sort of faith that they had. Most of the time I felt like I was last in queue when the Lord handed out faith!   When faith was talked about, often it was in the context o...

 I wonder if you have ever seen the film ‘Locke’ featuring Tom Hardy? If not, then prepare for some spoilers! If you like any of Tom Hardy’s films then I would imagine you would be excited to see this – a ‘nail-biting thriller’ featuring one of the world’s most famous action movie stars. From the poster you might imagine the film to be an action-packed thriller with special effects, chase sce...

Continuing  with our ‘Reading the Bible’ theme check out this podcast discussion  between Tim Barton and Tim Murray on the historical evidence for the  bible. Can we really trust what the Bible says? Is there strong historical evidence that supports its claims? And  what do we do with all those bits of the Bible that don’t quite add up  historically? Hear Tim & Tim’s d...

For the last two weeks we’ve been laying the foundation for how we approach the Bible. A fortnight ago we looked at what we believe about the Bible; last week we talked about how to understand and interpret it. This is all very well, but many of us struggle to read the Bible at all! We may find all reading difficult, or we may find the Bible particularly hard. No matter how many new resolutions we...

As we all consider our response to God in this season we thought  we’d produce a final podcast hearing from Roxy! As we look to invest in  the next generation, Roxy is currently responsible for leading much of that work. We have also talked about releasing Roxy  to study theology in the coming years. In this podcast we hear a little  more from Roxy, the work she’s doing and her...

How do we become good readers of scripture? God encounters us in his word. When I read the Bible I am confronted with God. This remarkable reality underlies out beliefs about scripture which we explored last week. However, God has chosen to give us his word in a historically particular way. The eternal divine word is given through particular human beings, in particular places at a particular time...

In our culture now, it is rather passé to think that there is any kind of objective or absolute truth. You believe one thing, I’ll believe another; both are true for us! But to claim that there is a truth that’s true for both of us is now offensive. As Christians, we’re even more offensive because not only do we claim there is a truth-for-everybody truth, but that this truth can be defined by a re...

This  is our third podcast helping us to pray and think through how we  respond to God in this season, following our church family meeting.    In this edition, Tim Murray and Tim  Barton imagine together what the year out could look like on a day to  day basis, but go on to imagine other ways that the life of our church  family could develop over coming years. We...

This Sunday  join us as we baptize Nina, Darrel and Mark. We will hear each of their  stories and celebrate with them as they become part of our church  family and begin the life of following Jesus. It’s always encouraging to hear what Jesus is doing in people’s lives  and to celebrate together the victory of Jesus in all of our lives. As  ever, it would be great to pray f...

This week we explore Ephesians 5:1-22. This is a scripture packed with  meaning and there’s plenty to explore. Paul has called for us to live  like the new creation Christ has made us to be, and now he unpacks even  more on what that looks like and what it doesn’t look like. We’ll take a look at the difficult issue of at what point does idolatry make you an idolator? What does it me...

As part of our 'Responding to God in this season' series Tim Murray sits down with Adrian Lowe to look at how we are called to manage our finances as a church.

Tim Murray chats to Tim Fellows about Christians and finances

A church membership meeting on the direction we are going as a family.

What  is real freedom? Humanity for all time, in every age has been looking  for the answer to this question. Mankind is ‘hard-wired’ for freedom and  so it becomes the pursuit of every generation. But what is it? How do you find it?  Many look for it in the abandonment of the perceived codes, rules and regulations of previous generations. Boundary-breaking is hailed as courage...

Following Jesus with your money part two

Following Jesus with your money

Money and others

Money and Anxiety

Money  and Heart