Crawley Community Church

This week Steve kicks off our new Series on the Holy Spirit called the Giver and His Gifts. This sermon series is from Luke 11 verse 13 "Even though you are evil [that is, sinful by nature], you know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more will your Father who is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!". We need to have a healthy biblical understanding that we are a spi...

The epic finale - Danny finishes our series on What6Words with the last word "BEYOND" and uses Acts 1:8 as the key text.

This week Danny continues our What6Words series and looks at "COMMUNITY". Crawley is our "Jerusalem". "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" Acts 1:8

This week Steve takes us through the 4th word in our church vision "IMPACT" and looks at both Acts 11 and Matthew 11.

This week Danny explains how, as a local church, we take seriously the duty that our people are fed properly from the word and "equipped" rather than entertained. Danny uses Ephesians 4:11 as his base text along with some helpful metaphors.

Steve continues to take us through our vision What6Words - "church"

Steve explains our vision using 6 words. "A diverse church equipped to impact the local community and beyond" This week is part one and Steve covers what it means to be a "Diverse" church. Diverse in Race, Language, Geography, Nationality, Age, Gender, Experience and Socioeconomics. We look at Acts 13 together.

Aref this week continues our series METAMORPHOSIS preaching in Farsi with a translator through Philippians 4:11-14. He explains how Paul talks about how it was a beautiful thing that the Philippian church came alongside him in his troubles and how all our needs can get met. We need to create and actively look for opportunities to help each other out as a local church.

Callum takes us through Philippians 4:9. Paul in this letter challenges the Philippian church to grow up. Why? to serve well. Paul is calling us to be counter cultural. We are living in an age more and more consumed with serving ourselves only.

Dan challenges us this week to think about what we think about because our lives move in the direction of our strongest thoughts. We look at Philippians 4:8 this week and we are encouraged to fill our minds with beauty and truth, whatever is honourable, lovely, right, pure, good, kind, excellent and praiseworthy. We need to embrace biblical wisdom Dan preaches Proverbs 14:12 - there's a way that s...

This week Caz Alliston takes us into Philippians 4:6-7 which deals squarely with worry. She encourages us to move from people who worry to people who pray.

With "How not to be an oaf" Stu Cox preaches with inimitable humour on gentleness following the Philippians 4:5 passage "Let gentleness be seen in every relationship for our Lord is ever near" (Passion Translation). Stu talks about "not punching people with truth", "not speaking with haste" - Proverbs 29:20 being "gentle with our words" Proverbs 15:1 and having a mate you can tell you when you are...

Danny looks at Phil 4:4 as part of our series on METAMORPHOSIS. It is strange and unusual that a man in prison could tell a church to rejoice. God used Paul being in prison to advance the gospel and for good. Danny makes the point that under God's watchful care, "our lives are not a runaway car". God is always working. In all our struggles God can advance His mission and use our lives to be a bles...

This week Joseph takes us through Philippians 4:2-3 looking at the conflict in the church between Euodia and Syntyche, and how we can be of one mind and have unity.

This week Ken unpacks for us the biblical view of love. As a foundation, he does an amazing overview of Metamorphosis PAST: We have been transformed 2 Cor 5:17, PRESENT: We are being transformed Romans 12:2 FUTURE: We will be transformed Phil 3:21 He speaks into the modern paradox of how technology has made us more connected but often more lonely. Our need to be loved is a primary requirement for...

Danny, this week as part of the Metamorphosis series unpacks the truths in Philippians 3 verses 12-14 NIRV quoted below "I have not yet received all these things. I have not yet reached my goal. Christ Jesus took hold of me so that I could reach that goal. So I keep pushing myself forward to reach it. Brothers and sisters, I don’t consider that I have taken hold of it yet. But here is the one thin...

Steve quickly recaps the Metamorphosis kick-off done at the Church Weekend away for those who weren't able to join us. Key Scriptures are Romans 12: 1-2 as well as Colossians 2:8, 2 Cor 4:4, 2 Corinthians 3:18 and closing with 1 Peter 1:14 "Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children,...

Danny talks us through Ephesians 6: 1-4 on the role of children in how they need to respect and obey their parents and the role of Fathers to not exasperate or provoke their children to the point of resentment but instead bring them up tenderly with loving kindness in the discipline and instruction in following Jesus and the word. We closed out with praying over our children together as families.

Danny shares on his recent trip to Portugal to support our Portuguese-speaking churches over there, and also we have a very short preach from Jim Partridge on 2 Corinthians 8:1-7. Jim leads the team at King's Church part of the New Ground group of churches.

Steve this Sunday preached from 2 Corinthians 8:1-9 for our Gift day where we look to accelerate the work of the Kingdom of God in our town, our nation and in our hearts as we look at the topic of generosity and sowing.

In our final week of the CORONATION series, Danny takes us through Jesus our King.

This week Ken explores Jesus our Priest in our Coronation series and why the new covenant is so much better than the old. So good in fact we may take it for granted and need to be aware of the cost that was paid for us to be close to a holy and perfect God.

This week Ken kicks off our new series, CORONATION, where we look at Jesus - the Prophet, Priest and King. "And they said to him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people." Luke 24:19

Danny outlines the internal mission of the church from Ephesians 4 and helps show us what a "Healthy Church" should look like with correctly laid foundations. Christ himself gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and b...

In the finale of our series called Dynasty, Steve looks at 2 Samuel 5:1-5 where it shows David waited 30 years before he finally became king. Steve outlines how 30 years of preparation helped him prepare: What Kingdom dreams are we growing and sowing into while we wait? Hebrews 6:11-12 We mustn't allow our hearts to grow dull or lose our enthusiasm for the things of God, rather, we should follow t...