Counterslip Church

Today we looked at John 13 and explored, with Matt, how Jesus reveals himself here in this passage as the God from Leviticus, who has always and will always be the God who offers us grace, the God who makes us clean, the God who loves us and makes a way for us to come to Him.

In this episode, we delve into Luke 20, where Jesus faces questions about his authority, shares parables aimed at religious leaders, and teaches important lessons about faith and authenticity. Exploring key moments from Holy Week, David helps us uncover deeper meanings behind these events and emphasises Jesus' knowledge of human thoughts and motivations.

In this episode, we delved deep into the Word of God and explored the profound teachings of Jesus. Emmanuel emphasised the critical question: 'Who is Jesus to you?' Drawing from key scriptures including Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he encourages personal reflection on Jesus's role in your life. The message highlights the importance of seeing Jesus for who He truly is and allowing His...

Today Lara shared with us from John 11 looking at the story of Mary, whose brother Lazarus had just died. We saw the impact that coming to the feet of Jesus had on the life of Mary in 3 different places. Lara asked us how we can deal with trials and trouble, the answer that we see from the life of Mary is to get to know Jesus intimately, to come again and again to the feet of Jesus, an encounter t...

Today we walked through Luke 10 and discovered the encouragement of Jesus not to lose focus, not to lose hope, not to allow other things in life to crowd in and pull us off course or distract us from the things that really matter.

This week Matt took us through Mark 9 where we get a glimpse of Jesus in His heavenly glory and then see Him set a young boy free. What we discovered was that Jesus is the God of a kingdom that brings change, that brings light in the darkness, freedom for the captives and hope for the hopeless, even in the places that the world says there is no hope.

Today Matt took us through the feeding of the 4000 from Mark 8. As we read we discovered that the author, Mark, is showing us more than a miraculous story, and more than a life lesson. The account in Mark 8 actually reveals to us something amazing about who Jesus is, and what He came to do.

Today Nathan Logan took us through Jesus' parables in Mark 4, simple stories about soil that teach us something about how God wants to be at work in our hearts, planting the kingdom in our lives, producing fruit that changes us and the world.

This week Matt took us through the first block of Jesus' teaching, known as the sermon on the mount. There we saw that Jesus wasn't just giving us a standard to live up to, but words that reveal the brokenness of our hearts and world into which Jesus offers a radically different answer to this - Himself.

Today Matt took us through John 2-5 pointing out a pattern that John uses through the stories he tells of the life of Jesus to show us that in Jesus there is new life for all, and a new place in which we can meet with God, no matter who we are or where we are.

Today Matt showed us how the authors of the new testaments main hope is that you see who Jesus is - The God that the Old Testament pointed us too, now revealed in Jesus, the God who is with us.

Today Glenys took us through the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter 1. From this list of names we discover that God doesn't see as we do. He sees the heart. He sees those who feel unseen, ostracised, broken. In Mary God saw someone who would carry His most precious gift. In Joseph a man who said yes to God's call even though all the pieces didn't fit together in his head. Are we wil...

Today Dennis took us through the book of Nehemiah pulling out biblical and historical context, and showing us ways in which this book speaks to us, His church, today.

This week we have been reading the book of Esther, and what we discovered today is that this book which never mentions God, whispers the name of Jesus and prophetically explains, through its specific context and moment in history, the victory over sin & death that Jesus would accomplish cosmically for all.

Today we journeyed through the book of Zechariah where the people, after their exile was over, were starting to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem in the hope that this would usher in the new Messianic reign and the kingdom of God. But we discovered that God's vision for this was way bigger than they could imagine, and so too is His vision for our lives.

Today we walked through Daniel 9, where Daniel sees the state of his world at that time and cries out to God to do something. The answer God gives him in the text is amazing, and through it we see that all along Jesus has always been, and will always be, the hope that we are all looking for.

This week we read Ezekiel 37 in which Ezekiel had a vision of a valley full of dry bones. These bones were the people of God, who while in exile felt like life was over. But we saw that we have a God who is not content to leave His people in the place of death, and who continually is inviting them to be made whole and new by His word and Spirit. Matt showed us that this is who God has always been,...

This week we have been reading these three books of the bible. Today we saw how these three characters stories overlapped and Matt unpacked how in each of their stories we see a God who is inviting us to be with Him, so that we might learn His way of life, and be transformed by Him receiving a new heart, a new Spirit and becoming more alive human beings like Jesus.

Today we had the honour of having Nigel Coles (Pastor at Counterslip in the 90's, and Webnet regional team leader for the last 25 years) come and share with us from God's word. Nigel took us through the theme of judgement in Ezekiel 15-17 and showed us how it all led to, and revealed, God's true heart to see us free and living life to the full (Ezekiel 18).

This week Heidi talked us through Ezekiel's encounter with God which happened in the strangest of places, not in the temple where God was found in the Old Testament, but by a river in Babylon in captivity. Explaining the vision he saw and sharing how Ezekiel's vision led him into the calling on his life, Heidi encouraged us to draw near to God - for it is encounter with Him that encourages...

This week we read Daniel 1 & 2 and learned from the life and story of Daniel how to trust God in the mundane, and the subtle ways that the enemy tries to change who God made us to be. We also discovered how to trust God for the miraculous, so that we might see Him do what the world says is not possible.

This week we looked at a really well known verse from Jeremiah and discovered that this verse has more context than maybe we realise. But as we see the context into which God spoke these words we find that this verse actually encourages us to trust the God who is faithful, the God who is love, the God who is peace even when times are hard and the world around us is challenging.

God gave Jeremiah words about water, about the lack of water in the lives of the people of Judah at that time. Today Matt shared about how water in the bible is symbolic of the Spirit of God, and how the Spirit helps us to cling to God and to shape our lives around Him discovering His goodness in our lives. But so often we look to other sources of water that ultimately do not provide. God calls us...

This morning Andy helped us look at the opening chapters of Jeremiah, and felt the weight of the prophet's words as God proclaims judgement over Israel due to their persistent idolatry. In contrast to this, we looked at God's promise to raise up a righteous remnant of ordinary people that would ultimately bring forth His Kingdom. We rejoice again that we have a God who speaks life into our...

You can jump through to the questions and answers at these points: (00:55) Micah 6:6-8 Does this passage mean that the sacrifices laid out in the law could not save them, but that salvation comes through deeds of justice, mercy and humility? (06:57) Isaiah 14 Is this passage about Babylon or Satan? (15:13) Isaiah 45:1-4 Why did God anoint Cyrus, bestowing on him a title of honour even though Cyrus...