Amblecote Community Church

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

When  you have a two year old boy you spend much of your time reading or  watching Thomas the Tank Engine. The interesting thing  about a steam engine is really in the name – that it runs on steam. I  find it incredible that you can power such a huge metallic vehicle,  pulling carriages, people and cargo, on the stuff that comes out of your  kettle when it’s...

This Sunday we return to our Ephesians series and pick up where we left off before Easter. In this passage, Paul turns from describing the Christian calling to applying it: he has spent half the letter teaching about what it is to be a Christian, but now he  turns to how we should live in the light of this. ‘Unity’ and ‘diversity’ are words that are difficult to use without connoting the flav...

Daniel and Zachary are dedicated!

Tim Murray explores death and the great hope Christians are called to in Jesus

Self-esteem’ is one of those concepts that has made in into the category of ‘unquestioned wisdom’ in  our culture. We talk about it all the time as if we all know and agree  what it means and why it matters. But just as an experiment, ask yourself, what does  self-esteem actually mean? If you find this tricky, don’t worry, the  experts can’t agree either. But whatever it is, we...

A continuation of our  Easter series - 'The cross has the final word'  Hear Tim tackle the subject of failure in our lives.

This Sunday we welcome Matt & Sarah Home and Greg Plunkett to share about their experience of living a missional life. Greg  works  as a missionary in Kenya, whilst Matt & Sarah oversee Willowdene  Farm, a rehabilitation and training centre in Shropshire.   Seeking to live a missional life is part of what it means to follow  Jesus. Paul writes to the Christians at...

This week Adrian Lowe expounds on the power of the Cross over shame

Secrets can be tricky things; knowing when to keep one and when to tell someone else about it isn’t always clear. But if you’ve ever wondered how many secrets you can keep, science allegedly has an answer: According to a recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology  most people keep around 13, five of which they’ve never told another soul. The study also revealed...

Let justice roll on like a river... “So come move, let justice roll on like a river, Let worship turn into revival, Lord, lead us back to you.” These are words found in a new song we have recently begun to sing at ACC. The words are taken from Amos 5:24, which says, “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never failing stream!” The New Living Translation puts it this way, “I wa...

Join us as we baptize one of our members and talk about what it means to be baptized.