Church in the Peak

Vision Talk Sept 20 - The Hope for our Nation Is The Gospel ! Introduction  What kind of vision talk do you bring at a time like this? It's not like we can have plans for new initiatives in a time of such uncertainty Calling to equip each believer to fulfil their own kingdom calling evidenced by the gift of Grace on their lives  Over the summer I have been considering the live of the Apostle...

Dave spoke at our baptism serivce Nothing can separate us from the love of God -NOTHING! Baptisms 20th September 2020 Digby video. Overwhelming desire to love him, pick him up and cuddle him. But twigs turn out to be pieces of poo taken from the cat litter tray. We still love him. We all start out adorable, seemingly perfect but as we go to the cat litter tray of life, we eat what we shouldn’t eat...

Ian spoke about choices.

Peter spoke on prayer. Feel bad about prayer, because don't feel I am that good at it, and that when I do they're really short. Pray and distracted quickly. Not that I haven't tried. Prayer meetings, nightmare. Feel quite inadequate. What did Jesus say? Don't stand and do big fancy prayers, but pray some simple things. When I communicate it can be short and to the point. When I...

Neal spoke about Daniel in the Lions Den. Some of us may tend to stay away from reading the book of Daniel as its full of visions which are hard to understand and how do we know what they mean – but to do so we miss out on such a rich book and some amazing stories of God’s power and love for his people in very difficult circumstances. The bible app has a very good helpful commentary on Daniel call...

The Spirit of the Lord is on me. The last few times I have spoken, I have looked at Isaiah and especially the second part of Isaiah which has parallels with the New Testament. Firstly I looked at the Father’s heart for people in Isaiah 58. Then I looked at Jesus at the cross in Isaiah 53 and now I’m going to look at the Spirit in Isaiah 61 but through the passage as quoted in Luke 4. First the con...

Phil contined looking at look at God's lavish grace and how Peter's first experience of Jesus was full of grace. Over the last few weeks we have considered Gods grace in saving us being sufficient for all our lives and how we live in the light of Gods Grace Today I am looking at grace multiplied 2 Peter 1:2 Peter suggests here that grace and peace are multiplied as we grow in our knowled...

Dave spoke from Isaiah 53.

Following on from Phil's talk on grace last week, Neal looked at Grace again and answered the question that because of grace should we just carry on sinning? We need to move from an intellectual understanding of grace to a heart understanding and response. In a supermarket, the till was ringing up the values of the goods bought and then at the end they were zeroed because their son works for...

Phil spoke from 2 Peter 1:3 about how God's grace is everything that we need. Is life a struggle? Sometimes is temptation too much? Dave encouraged us last week to receive the fathers love again This week I want to encourage us to receive fresh grace His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory an...

Dave preached from Isaiah 58. At the beginning of the lockdown I was always opening the bible at Philippians, Galatians and Revelations. But for the last month or more I have been reflecting on Isaiah 58. It is titled True Fasting. I prefer the NLT True worship.  But in trying to prepare to speak on this I felt uncomfortable. As if I was missing the point. So as usual I comeback to the context of...

Phil spoke from Acts 3 and 4 about Peter and John healing a lame beggar in Jesus's name. Gospel with power Introduction • Religion - mans pursuit of God ? • Most would say Religion seems to be about rules and regulations to somehow make us acceptable to God • Jesus came and took upon himself all that was needed to make us acceptable to God  Jesus came to give us life and freedom not burden us...

In Steve's testimony, he talks of the complete transformation of his life after meeting Jesus. To join us for our 6-week online Alpha Course, starting on Wednesday 1st July, email hello@churchinthepeak.org. 

Paul spoke from Psam 84 about pilgrimage and longing.  Psalm 84 [ESV] My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 84 How lovely is your dwelling place,     O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, faints     for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy     to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow finds a home,     a...

Neal spoke about Nicodemus’s night-time visit to Jesus.  Clip from “The Chosen” https://youtu.be/Q1AyMDZNy9k John Chapter 3 – We see Nicodemus coming to meet Jesus at night. Nicodemus is a religious leader, a Pharisee and a member of the ruling Council of the Jews – The Sanhedrin – He is highly regarded as a teacher of the Law of Moses and is well versed in the scriptures – he has seen Jesus perfo...

Peter spoke from Psalm 118. Battle, costly one. Now battle is won, and the writer is reflecting Relevant to us as we start to emerge from lock down. So many famous verses in one psalm. Verses 5,8,14,22,24&29.     So much to say about each of these verses, could go into it for hours Concentrate on v22. The reason we may know the verse is because both Jesus and Paul use the verse. Luke 20:17 Cor...

Dave spoke about Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Phil read from 1 Peter 1 and Matthew 7, reminding us about the need for genuine faith and for our foundations to be in God. Introduction               • Before the pandemic took its effect in the UK we were looking at what it meant to be strong in the Lord and his mighty power              • Then since we first went into lock down we have been considering how we live in the midst of a difficult si...

Neal spoke about David overcoming Goliath in God's power. The opposite of Fear is Faith.

Andrew spoke to us from Wales about the importance of private prayer. 

Brian and Maria's wry look look at lockdown life and how we can move from lamentation to contentment.

Peter asked "Why am I so bored?" What is the most exciting thing you have done this week? Only boring people get bored.... Children of israel. Exodus 32:1 When we get bored we can wander from the truth.  Our focus can wander Mike Pilavachi ‪“The devil knows your name but calls you by your sin, God knows your sin but calls you by your name.” - Ricardo Sanchez. In these days of pain and is...

On Easter Sunday Brian Rice posted a very simple FaceBook statement; Jesus 1 Death 0 It is a very simple statement but I have been reflecting on it over the week. On Sunday afternoon my Dad and I watched the rerun of the 2019 cricket World Cup between England and New Zealand. It came down to the last over. England needed 15 runs to win. Which is a very difficult task. England looked to have lost t...

Phil preached on Jesus's True Love for us on our Easter Sunday online service.

Neal spoke about what we should be doing now: reading the bible, worship, prayer. Please note that there were some issues with the recording this morning and it stops mid-preach. Sorry for the inconvenience. Neal’s last point from his preach this morning (which wasn’t recorded) was about community: We need to care for each other in the church  Make sure you meet in Groups and if you are not in a g...