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More Than You Can Ask, Think Or Imagine Introduction .Something I have lived with for a few months .Our world has changed this last 20 Months .Somethings will not return to what they were before .God wants to bring change that will last God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working w...

Please note that the audio on the live-stream failed at the end of Phil's preach, so the last part is missing. Do you believe God is good and intends good for your life? You may say you do, but is that something you’re sure of in the core of your being? Psalms 84:11 No good thing does He withhold. No. Good. Thing. That's who God is God is love, and His true nature is good. Psalm 33:5 The...

Phil returned to our series on Colossians.

Dave spoke from the story of the woman caught in adultery.

True faith will ask, seek, and knock  “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being...

Dave spoke from the story of Moses.

After Steve and Helen's wedding, Neal spoke of God's view of marriage.

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. Colossians 2:16 ESV Does this verse mean we can eat and drink what we like and if others don't like it, tough? Is it saying we can behave how we want because we are redeemed? The spirit of the day would say that it is wrong to eat meat, and that the right thing to...

I know I’m free but how do I walk with my freedom? Colossians 2:20-23 NLT In summary, we can’t earn our salvation it is Christ + NOTHING.  We are coming to a time when our ability to walk in freedom is even more relevant than ever before.  I want to try and address how we walk in the freedom Jesus has won for us on the cross with grace and humility.  Ok you say now I have spiritual freedom, do I h...

Peter continues our series looking at Colossians.  All things need to be connected. Look around the room. Screws and bolts and joints to make things hold together. Without them it's a pile of rubbish. Look at the universe. Held together by a scaffold. A scaffold of forces. These all emanate from the mass of the black hole at the centre keeping the sun spinning, and in turn us around the sun....

Colossians 2:16-18 Freedom from Rules and New Life in Christ This follows on from the previous verses in this chapter as it starts with So. We need to see what was written before to help in our understanding of this section. The section deals with the lies and deception that had come into the early Church. v10 is the Key Verse If you are complete in Christ (and you are) then you do not need additi...

Keith talked from Colossians 2v13-15. Recognition of our previous position I talked about the fact we had all missed the mark and fallen short of the glory of God.  I contrasted the 'sinful' woman (Luke 7v36-47) who recognised her need to be forgiven and Simon, the Pharisee, who could see sin in others but not himself.  Jesus said the woman had been forgiven for her many sins and therefo...

Circumcision  - Colossians 2:11  Background Jewish children, circumcised when they were a week old. It marked you as belonging. Not exclusive to Israel, common amongst many peoples, males and females.  Strange in our culture. Deuteronomy 10:14‭-‬22  Complete because you have less.... Like Phil was saying last week, need to look to the other letters to get the full picture of what Paul is referring...

Fully Satisfied with all God is For us In Christ Jesus Every person in the world wants to know what will make him or her happy. We’re all desperately seeking for the person, place, or thing that will meet our expectations, needs, and wants. We were designed for so much more than the trivial pursuit of pleasure So maybe here in Colossians we find the answer to all this For in Christ lives all the f...

Colossians 2:8-10 Paul wants to people in Colossae to understand that it is not about head knowledge and philosophical argument. It’s about a heart understanding and that in Christ we are made complete. Paul in no uncertain terms states that Christ is ENOUGH! You are complete through your union with Christ v10 This is as important today as it was for the early Church. We can be captured by reasone...

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:6-7 I’m going to talk about thankfulness but I want to start with the foundations of that thankfulness.  Phil spoke recen...

In our series on Colossians we have looked at how Christ needs to be at the centre of our thinking and that Paul constantly brings us back to Christ – who he is, his position in the world and also where he should be in our experience and Christian lives. We know that the local church had been influenced by different thinking and that the teaching was that Christ was not enough – you had to add thi...

Phil continued our series looking at Colossians. Introduction What are we building our life on? What is the source of your life? What is feeding you? While this past year may have been tough, we have had time to do things we didn't have before What have we used that time for ? Have we used it to build our relationship, drawing  nearer and going deeper? We have said this before is our life bui...

Peter continued our look at Colossians. "I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love." Colossians 2:2a "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." John 13:35 Like and love are different. Knit together. Stronger than a single strand. Demonstrate this Gill Harper's legacy in CitP - One-anothering. 100 instances of...

Peter and the other Elders outlined Church in the Peak's connections with churches iocally, around the UK and worldwide. 

So we tell others about Christ but how? Colossians 1 v 28-29 I spoke a few weeks ago about the secret gift that is now available to everyone and the Holy Spirit being within you to change you and to flow from you.  But first we must remember we are painting a big picture of Jesus in His glory conveying the zeal he has for the people in his creation.  Be filled with the Spirit.  100% love. 100% for...

We need righteousness to be acceptable to God but we are not righteous – we are sinners.  Romans 3 vs 23 – “all have sinned and come short of God’s glory” So God has what we need and don’t deserve – righteousness - and we have what God hates and separates us from God  – sin – So what’s the answer to this problem? – Jesus is the answer – Jesus dies on the cross as the perfect sacrifice, his blood i...

What a privilege to Celebrate the Resurrection of our Saviour King Jesus. It’s the greatest day in History - The day the power of ALL sin for ALL time was dealt with. The very foundation of our Faith. There is no one else who can forgive sin and free us from the power of sin only Jesus. Jesus Died carrying the weight of our sin upon himself conquering it forever. His blood shed for us that washes...

Gods secret - He lives in you : Colossians 1:27 When I was first born again there was a national campaign called JIM. Jesus in me. It gave me opportunities to tell people about Jesus and my new found faith. It helped me visualise my understanding of grace and the work of the spirit.  I want to encourage you to allow the Spirit to work again in your heart.  In my preparation I have felt the Lord sa...

v25 – The entire message Paul wants them to know the full message and not just part of it as it is this that will bring freedom and an end to all the false teaching that they were hearing. Remember they were being told that Jesus Christ was not enough. You had to add extra spirituality to your life to please God. The message was Jesus plus other things and Paul has been trying to explain that it’s...