Church on the Heath

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: Matthew 6:16–18, Acts 12:25–13:3  9.15am, February 2nd, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Yener Reading: Matthew 5:5–8, Philippians 4:4–7 9.15am, January 26th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Katie Roberts Reading: Mark 6:30–32, Psalm 62:1–2, 5–7 9.15am, January 19th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Emma Phillips Reading: Matthew 11:25–30, Genesis 2:1–3 9.15am, January 12th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: Galations 5:13–18, Psalm 119:1–16 9.15am, January 5th, 2025

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Emma Phillips Reading: James 5:1–11 9.15am, November 24th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: James 3:1–12 9.15am, November 17th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: James 4:1–12 10am, November 10th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Katie Roberts Reading: James 2:1–12 Christian Aid video, referenced in talk: https://youtu.be/MjPt4gEV7A0 9.15am, November 3rd, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Jason Riordan Reading: James 1:1–12 9.15am, October 27th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Readings: Acts 2:1–8; 1 Corinthians 14:1–5, 13–15 9.15am, October 20th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Sue Rinaldi (Fleet Baptist Church) Readings: Matthew 17:24–27, Acts 5:12–16 9.15am, October 13th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Howard Satterthwaite (from Open Doors) Reading: 1 Peter 4:7–11 Learn more about Open Doors’ work with persecuted Christians around the world here: https://www.opendoorsuk.org 10am, October 6th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Reading: Matthew 6:1–4, 2 Corinthians 9:6–11 If you’d like to respond to this week’s talk by supporting Church on the Heath financially, further details can be found here: https://www.churchontheheath.org.uk/give 9.15am, September 29th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Yener Reading: Ephesians 2:6–10, Hebrews 11:1–6 9.15am, September 22nd, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Reading: John 4:13-18, 25-30 Link to The Chosen: The Woman at the Well , as recommended in the talk. 9.15am, September 15th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Reading: 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 Speaker: Patrick Butler Note: apologies for the glitchy livestream audio this week; we're working to resolve this for future podcasts 9.15am, September 8th, 2024

Series: Romans In the penultimate instalment of our series on the letter to the Romans, Patrick considers what Paul has to say about the relationship between church and state, and how we conduct ourselves so as to live well with each other. Reading: Romans 13:1–7, 14:1–19 9.15am, July 21st, 2024

Series: Romans Emma Phillips continues the Romans series, looking at a chapter that starts with the well-known exhortation to “…offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God”. Book recommendation: Water from a Deep Well, by Gerald Sitter Note: there were some glitches with this week’s livestream that have also affected parts of the podcast audio – the latter half of the reading...

Series: Romans Patrick explores our role in partnering with God. Reading: Romans 10:8–15 9.15am, July 7th, 2024

Series: Romans We’ve reached the summit of our mountain-like representation of the book of Romans – the beacon of hope on the mountain-top. Dane Baker explores this for us in his last talk at Church on the Heath before he and Blanche move on to new pastures church-wise.  Reading: Romans 8:14–19, 31–32, 38–39 9.15am, June 30th, 2024

Series: Romans We’re now traversing the ‘ridge of freedom’ in our journey through Romans. The following image of Striding Edge on Helvellyn (Lake District), which Patrick references, may be helpful: https://www.mountain-journeys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1442260_orig.jpg Reading: Romans 6:1–7; 11–14 9.15am, June 23rd, 2024

Series: Romans Having explored themes of the Gospel, then Sin, at the start of Romans, the next section focuses on Salvation. Patrick kindly re-recorded this talk due to technical issues with Sunday’s livestream. A couple of images to accompany the talk… First the mountain-based ‘map’ of Romans from the Bible Society that provides a structure for this series: https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/conten...

Series: Romans Patrick Butler introduces this new series looking at the book of Romans from the New Testament. He introduces the sender of this letter and its recipients before starting to unpack its message. Click the following link to watch the testimony from an Iranian Christian, named Mojtaba, that's introduced at the end of the talk. This video has been produced by the Bible Society: http...

Series: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament This week, Katie Roberts completes our current series with the famous story of David and Goliath. She finds both similarities, and differences, between David and Jesus. Through David’s story, Katie presents thought-provoking ideas, including using who we are for God, not wearing someone else’s armour(!), and how much God loves the underdog. An inspiration...