Bay Church Talks

We welcome Pete Norris, our new Curate as he draws on his personal experience of how to find peace in pain. Pete draws our attention to the importance of God's unchanging promises and how he meets us in our pain with those promises which gives birth to peace.

Our Vicar, Matt, talks to us this week about being Heart Ready for Jesus this season. In all the rush to get ready practically for Christmas, Matt reminds us that the King is here and He wants to meet us, with our hearts open.

Rachel norris finishes up our series, "This I Know", sharing her knowledge of God as a Source of Strength. Rachel reflects on Psalm 46 and speaks on God being an ever present help and an almighty God who holds it all.

Our vicar Matt, continues our series titled, "This I Know" and shares with us about God's faithfulness. Matt reminds us that God will never leave us or forsake us.

Faith, our Worship, Production and Creative Pastor, continues our series, "This I Know" talking about The God of Hope. Faith shares her own story of finding God's hope in season of disappointment and reminds us that there is no situation beyond hope with Jesus.

Matt kicks off a new seies title, This I Know, this week looking at the God of all Comfort. Matt reminds us to know His Compassion, receive His comfort and to focus on Christ.

Beth, one of our Ordinands, continues our series, Functional Faith, looking at the topic of worldview. Beth shares with us the importance of looking to scripture for our worldview to really understand who God is, who we are and how we should live.

Gareth, our Curate, continues our series on Functional Faith, this week looking at generosity. The world often gives us a confusing narrative about finance and generosity and Gareth reminds us what Jesus is looking for when He calls us to be generous.

Paul Hine continues our series Functional Faith, sharing his thoughts on how we should function relationally with God, with each other and with our community.

Matt, our vicar kicks off our brand new series titled Functional Faith. Matt looks at how faith is a gift that we must receive, feed and practise.

Our Vicar, Matt Bray shares the vision of Bay Church and some of the exciting ways that vision is being outworked in the Bay

Our Vicar, Matt Bray finishes our mini series titled "New", speaking from Ephesians 3 & 6. Matt unpacks the input, through-put and output of the power we receive through Jesus.

Gareth Harper, our Curate continues our series titled "New", looking at God's precious gift of New Life and what Paul outlines our response shoul dbe to this gift in phesians 2 & 5.

We were so excited to have Abby Miles speaking to us from Psalm 139. Abby encouraged us, in a culture searching for drama, to be bringers of the truth: the truth of God's inescapable love, inescapable presence, and the inescapable identity he gives each and every one of us. Unfortunately, a technical error means that the audio on this talk is not quite up to our normal standards, for which we apol...

Simon Cox shares with us this week his thoughts on Psalm 3, continuing our series, Summer Psalms.

Our Vicar, Matt Bray kicks off a new series, Summer Psalms. Matt looks at Psalm 1 ecouraging us that God has the best intentions for us.

Our vicar, Matt Bray concludes our series of talks on 4 Gardens, looking at the Garden of Eternal Life and how our view of the future effects our present.

Our curate, Gareth Harper, continues our series of talks on 4 Gardens and shares a powerful message about Jesus' victory in our own lives.

Rachel continues our series on 4 Gardens, looking at the garden of Gethsemene and the importance of trusting God at all times.

Our curate, Gareth Harper, kicks off our new series of talks, entitled 4 Gardens: Cultivating Lives of Hope. Starting in the Garden of Eden, Gareth considers just what we're talking about when we talk about 'sin', and how we can turn away from sin and toward Jesus, in order to live lives of hope.

Our guest speaker, Olly Ryder, vicar of St Matt's Plymouth speaks to us about living an extraordinary life with Jesus.

Matt Bray shares the story of the prodigal son, unpacking Jesus' description of how His Father loves us.

Matt Bray wraps up our series on the Presence of God, by considering what it means for us to be a people of His presence. A technical hitch on Sunday meant that we weren't able to share the talk as planned. So here is a version of this talk especially re-recorded for those of you joining us online!

Our curate, Gareth Harper, continues our series of talks on the presence of God, and considers the ways in which Jesus has radically reshaped the temple mindset around himself, so that we can draw near to the presence of God.

Beth Charman continues our series of talks on the presence of God, and considers the lives of Bezalel, Esther and other characters in the Bible who remind us that God's presence gives power to our purpose. You can watch the clip from Motherland which Beth refers to here: https://youtu.be/nOvApiA-rs8?t=42