Amblecote Community Church

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 12th March 2023 , Mike Crook spoke on Galatians 4:21-31. He highlighted how it is for freedom that that Christ has set us free.  Listen to Tim Murray's message about the law, that Mike mentions, here   For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Spiritual Disciples 1 message from our Sunday service 5th March 2023 .  Throughout the year we’re going to be doing “one-off” Sunday preaches exploring some of the spiritual disciplines. Following Jesus is about encounter and formation, as both are important for us to live full Christian lives. This week we’ll have an introduction to the topic covering why spiritual disciplines are important...

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 26th February 2023 , David Faulkner spoke on Galatians 4:1-20. This section covers how in Jesus we are freed from slavery to be children of God!  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 19th February 2023 , Tim Murray spoke on Galatians 3:19-29. After reminding us of the main issues written about in this letter; do gentiles have to become Jews in order to become Christians? and what is it that reconciles us to God and makes us part of his family? he explored the big question, why then the law?  For more information...

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 12th February 2023 , Tim Barton spoke on Galatians 3:1-18 – Works of the law or faith?  He stirred our appreciation for the amazing work of God in Christ, encouraged us to set our sights on putting our faith in him and not defaulting to relying on our own abilities (or lack of), and he addressed why Paul is so serious, and even angry...

On Sunday 5th February 2023 we had Jason Carvalho from Betel in Birmingham come to speak. Betel is a Christian charity for men, women and families affected by hardships that lead to social exclusion, especially homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse and long term unemployment. Jason informed us about the work they do in Birmingham, spoke on the Bible and shared some personal testimony. For more info...

Continuing our series in Galatians 2:11-21 at our service on Sunday 29th January 2023. Adrian talking us through 'the heart of the matter' and we looked at the powerfulness of the Gospel, how it’s Christ's faithfulness that takes him to the cross, in a monumental act of self-giving that reshapes us. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit o...

Galatians 1:4-2:12 from our Sunday service 22nd January 2023 .  This week we continued our series in Galatians looking at part of chapters one and two with Tim Murray and touching on Paul’s biography and calling and the apostolic gospel.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

This Sunday, 15th January 2023 , we started our new teaching series on the book of Galatians, getting clear about the Gospel. Tim Murray took us through an introduction to the book and presented the Gospel in miniature. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

We continued the New Year with a baptism service, on Sunday 8th January, which is always a wonderful occasion for us as a church family. We had the opportunity to hear the stories of three people and then to see them get baptised. Here are the reflections that Tim Barton shared afterwards.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit...

The Great Invitation from our Sunday service, 11th December 2022 . This Sunday we looked at the invitation to the shepherds, the wise men and Herod in the Christmas story. And then Tim talked about how God invites us all to come and see what he is doing, and how important our response is today. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our we...

Tim Murray spoke from Isaiah 11, at our Sunday service on 4th December 2022 . He looked at the second coming of Jesus and reasons why we can expectantly anticipate his second coming! For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Adrian Lowe spoke on Isaiah 66:1-2 at our Sunday service on 27th November 2022.  Building a house for God - Rightmove. God  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website  

Dave Hadley spoke on Isaiah 64 at our Sunday service, 20th November 2022 .  Rend the Heavens.  Exploring anxiety and hope. There's a lot of stuff to be worried about, as there was for Isaiah in his time too, but there is also God's answer of hope that we can see in the Bible...  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our web...

The cost of discipleship from our Sunday service, 13th November 2022 . Tim read from three passages where Jesus talks about what it means to follow him; Luke 9:21-25, Luke 9:57-62 and Luke 14:25-33. Then he spoke on three 'S's that following Jesus will cost you - your sin, your stuff and your self-determination.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get invol...

Andrew McFaul spoke on Isaiah 52:13-53:12, Jesus as the suffering servant, at our Sunday service on 6th November 2022 .  He brought some reflections on the astonishing nature of Christ’s suffering and what Christ has achieved, as a continuation of our series in the book of Isaiah.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our websi...

Living and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed – podcast 8. In this, the final podcast in the Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles' Creed, David Faulkner leads us through the closing lines of the Creed, which declares that Christians believe in the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Perhaps, unless we are near to death, this can all seem rather abstract and unrelated to "real l...

Living and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed – podcast 7. In the seventh podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles’ Creed Tim Murray looks at the next part of it, covering the Holy Spirit, Catholic Church, Communion of Saints and Forgiveness of Sins.  You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, w...

Living and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed – podcast 6. In the sixth podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles’ Creed Tim Murray looks at the following part of it, how Jesus Christ descended, ascended and will come again.  You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you...

Living and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed – podcast 5. In the fifth podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles’ Creed Tim Murray looks at another part of it, how Jesus Christ suffered, was crucified, died and was buried.  You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you c...

Living and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed – podcast 4.  In the fourth in our Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles' Creed, David Faulkner takes a look at what it says about Jesus, namely that He is "Jesus Christ, God's Only Son, our Lord, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary". These are all familiar words, perhaps, but what this podcast seeks to show is that in what th...

Tim Barton spoke on Isaiah 55 at our Sunday service, 23rd October 2022 .  “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters”. This chapter is about God calling his people to stop putting their hope and security in things which do not satisfy and instead to seek him and find their hope, purpose and peace in Him. Isaiah uses the metaphor of a meal for this, calling God’s people to “buy and eat… e...

'Bad News & Good News', the Gospel, as presented by Andrew McFaul at our Dedication service, Sunday 16th October 2022 .  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website . 

A message of hope from our Harvest service, Sunday 9th October 2022 .  Find the Theology of Pleasure teaching that Vanessa referenced here .  Watch Hope in the Darkness by Abby and Chris Eaton here .  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website . 

In this podcast Tim Barton is joined by Jenny Baines from Open. Jenny has been involved for over thirty years with those affected by unintended pregnancy and post abortion concern. Tim and Jenny discuss the impact on those who experience baby loss, and how the church can become a more welcoming place full of truth and grace. Watch this podcast in video form . Get in touch with Tim on his new email...