Amblecote Community Church

Tim Murray spoke on Isaiah 40:9-31, to whom will you compare me?, at our Sunday service 2nd October 2022 .  In this part of Isaiah, Isaiah offers comfort to the people by reminding them of who God is; and Tim attempted to do the same thing for us in these days. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

 Living and Believing: The Apostles' Creed - podcast 3. In this the third podcast in the series on the Apostles' Creed Adrian helps us understand that God is the source of all things good including the material world. He declared creation, His work, to be good and He remains committed to the world that He created, He is ‘Maker of Heaven and Earth’. Both the incarnation, and the resurrection,...

Living and Believing: The Apostles' Creed - podcast 2.  In the next two podcasts Adrian looks at what is called the First Article of the Creed, ‘I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth’. This podcast looks at the first part of this statement, ‘I believe in God the Father Almighty’. The Creed is a statement of belief, it begins ‘I believe’. What we believe is important,...

Living and Believing: The Apostles' Creed - podcast 1.  In this podcast Tim Murray introduces our new Whole Church Teaching series on the Apostles' Creed, exploring how this creed came about, how it relates to the Bible and why it matters for us today.  You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, what we b...

Tim Murray spoke on Isaiah 61:1-4, A vision to live for, at our Sunday service 25th September 2022 .  Find the teaching on God and a Public Hope that Tim mentions here .  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Vanessa spoke on Isaiah 6, which starts 'In the year that King Uzziah died...', on Sunday 18th September 2022 . A timely and relevant message.  Vanessa gave a deep dive into what Isaiah saw, what he heard, what he felt and how meeting God changes us.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Tim Barton spoke on Isaiah 40:1-5 at our Sunday service, 11th September 2022 , starting our new series on the book of Isaiah called Comfort My people. Isaiah is a book all about who God is, what he does and what he has to say to his people. The people of Israel often turned to the book of Isaiah to understand what God was doing, who he was and how they could find comfort in their difficulty. Whils...

As part of our 'Back to...' service on Sunday 4th September 2022, Vanessa gave some reflections on abiding in God, after reading Jesus' words in John 15:1-11.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Tim Murray finished off our summer series about Jesus on Sunday 28th August 2022 by talking about Jesus and Emotion.  He dug into the question 'do emotions matter?' and then talked through some times recorded in the Bible where Jesus expressed emotions like anger, grief, compassion and love.  Find out more about the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course we are running this autumn.&nbsp...

The Prodigal Son spoken on by Lee Brookes at our Sunday service, 21st August 2022.  Lee spoke on the story of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15 in a really heartfelt way and left us with a challenge to persist in prayer.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Ways Jesus interacts with us by Jo Murray from our Sunday service, 14th August 2022.  Jo spoke about some ways Jesus interacts with us and read the account of the road to Emmaus from Luke 24.  What's happening in your life? What is your heart dwelling on? What burdens you? Come and know Jesus, and be known by him.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you c...

On 7th August 2022 Dave Hadley continued our summer series looking at Jesus in the new testament.  Anyone have guilt? Anyone struggle with shame? Anyone feel powerlessness? Bring it to the cross. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Jesus Sees from our Sunday service 31st July 2022.  Liz continues our summer series looking at aspects of Jesus by speaking on the fact that Jesus sees us. Reading from Luke 19:1-10.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website . 

Caring, part of our summer series on Jesus, from our Sunday service 24th July 2022.  Catherine's focus for this talk was Matthew 25:31-40 specifically Jesus' words, 'whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'  Listen here: The Servant King (From Heaven You Came)

Jesus and Addiction part 2: Recovery and the Grace of God delivered by Tim Murray at our Sunday service 17th July 2022. This week we had the second part of our series on addiction; considering recovery and change. All the material for Whole Church Teaching series on How we change when change is hard that Tim mentions can be found here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and ho...

In our fourth and final podcast we explore the common metaphor used by New Testament writers of the church as a family. What kind of family is the church meant to be? How did the New Testament writers understand family? And how does this reshape our view of church today? You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, w...

In the third podcast of our Following Jesus Together series we take a look at the Temple and a body as metaphors for the church. Where does the presence of God dwell now that Christ has come? How do we find our place and purpose as a Christian? And how does the church become both united and diverse? You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more informat...

Jesus and Addiction part 1: Facing up to Addiction delivered by Tim Murray at our Sunday service 10th July 2022 .  On Sunday we started a two part series on addiction. This is an important topic for us to consider in following Jesus. We looked at facing up to addiction, its power but also the great hope we have in Jesus in dealing with this. Join us next week to hear part 2.  For more in...

The Parable of the Growing Seed from our Sunday service 3rd July 2022. This Sunday Tim Barton spoke on the parable of the growing seed, from Mark 4:26-29, continuing our Jesus series. You can see The Muppets video that Tim references here   All our latest Whole Church Teaching material is accessible here   For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involve...

In our second podcast we look together at the metaphor of the church as ‘The people of God’. What does this mean for how we see our identity as Christians? And how does the local church help us maintain this identity? 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 can get involved, please visit ou...

In this first podcast Tim B introduces why we’re looking at the topic of the local church. We take a look at the word we translate as church in the New Testament, and then begin to look at how our understanding of church shapes the way we engage in it.  You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here . For more information about who we are, what we believ...

The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Like A Mustard Seed from our Sunday service 26th June 2022. This Sunday we were delighted to welcome guest speaker Martin Young. Martin has been senior leader of Rising Brook church in Stafford for over 20 years. He continued our Jesus series by speaking on the parable of the mustard seed and the kingdom of God.  For more information about who we are, what we believe...

Mike Crook started our new series, focusing on the person of Jesus, by speaking on John 21 at our Sunday service 19th June 2022.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Why Worship? from our Sunday service 12th June 2022.  This week we looked at worship, opening the subject up and considering what worship is. Vanessa interviewed two people, Franky and Sophie, who often lead worship at ACC. They spoke on the role of sung worship in our corporate gatherings and worship as a lifestyle, how our whole lives should be surrendered to God as an act of worship. ...

Technology and the war on reality part 2 from our Sunday service 29th May 2022. In its fullest sense Jesus' resurrection is about the re-humanisation of the dehumanised. The issue we face with technology is it is largely de-humanising. This Sunday Adrian talked more practically about its impact and offered some ways we can protect our humanity. If you missed part 1, you can listen here .  For...