Crawley Community Church

Danny preaches from Ephesians 4:11-15 explaining how Jesus gave some to be apostles (one who has a call to plant and oversee churches) within the five essential ministries of Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers. He outlines how we, as a local New Frontiers and New Ground church, are part of something way bigger than us, and we get to serve and play a part in what God is doing. He...

It's Easter Sunday at CCC. This week Ken shares the question that Jesus was asked by the man who had kept all the 10 commandments "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" (Luke 18:18-23). Ken explains this is a great question to ask at Easter, and we need to hear the answer and how the bible answers this big question. If you are new and haven't listened to our podcast before, this i...

Danny continues our Dynasty series looking at David's encounter with Goliath. What's a Goliath? Everything or anything that makes you feel small, powerless, and Goliaths can be everywhere, maybe even inside your mind. Danny outlined things we can learn from David and be Giant Slayers. 1. Giant Slayers are nosey 2. Giant Slayers go from smaller to bigger challenges 3. Giant Slayers win with their o...

In week 8 of our Dynasty Series, Steve looks at 1 Samuel 22 where David is on the run and hiding in a cave from King Saul. Steve explains that at some point, all of us enter "the cave" - a place where things aren't going well and where we need to learn to depend on God to come to our rescue. Steve explains how the wait and trials are part of God's assignment, a place where we can be active rather...

1 Samuel 30 is the account of David fighting to get his family back from his enemies who had captured them. Danny shares how this story is just as relevant for us today and how we also need to fight for our families. David found strength in his God to fight for his family. We need to recognize that family is under attack. Our problem is that we can tolerate sin, rather than hate sin. We are not ma...

This week Steve Alliston continues our Dynasty Series in 1 Samuel and looks at the incredible friendship between Jonathan and David. Jonathan strengthened David in God. Jonathan sacrificed for David giving up his relationship with his father Saul who for no other reason than jealousy wanted to kill David.

Steve Alliston's talks through the life of David and has themed this preach as "Et tu, Brute?" which may be translated literally as ""You too, Brutus?" or "Even you, Brutus?" In the play, Caesar utters these words and resigns himself to death when he sees that even his closest friend is among the conspirators. Steve talks through Saul throwing spears at David instead of supporting the man who save...

This Sunday Danny continues in our Dynasty series and preaches on how God cannot fix whoever is first not broken. He looks at how King David commits adultery with Bathsheba 2 Samuel 11, and how he compounds his sin with a mega cover-up. How Nathan is sent by God to save David from his sin as David's heart had grown hard. Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a pure heart O God, and renew a steadfast spirit wi...

Steve Alliston continues in our Dynasty Series and looks at 1 Samuel 16 & 17 focusing on how we looking prophetically, seeing and releasing in Kingdom Families. "Saul said to David, "Go and the Lord be with you" 1 Samuel 16:34

Steve Alliston preaches from 2 Samuel 7 looking at how David's plans changed after an encounter with Nathan the prophet and what we can learn from this as we steward the prophetic to grow a Kingdom family.

Danny preaches on Absalom's Drama from 2 Samuel 18 in our new series entitled "DYNASTY" where we are looking at Studies in the life of David from 1 and 2 Samuel. The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!

Danny closes out our Series of 23 days of Devotion with being Devoted to His Word. There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed & useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, and training us to live God’s way. Through the Word, we are put toget...

This Sunday we had the pleasure of welcoming Phil Woolley from Rye Lane Chapel, Peckham, who will be continuing our 23 days of Devotion series looking at devotion in prayer. Know the "I AM" Exodus 3.13-15

Today Steve looks at what does Devotion in Worship look like? Psalm 27:4 One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. David who wrote the PSALMS consistently made a choice to worship God. It was his default setting for every situation he faced. We need to captu...

Steve Alliston explains what we're doing for the month of January starting Saturday the 7th and finishing Sunday the 29th. How to read the word of God, How to pray, How to fast, How to devote ourselves to Jesus without distraction, and hear what He's saying to us. Steve unpacks tools for us to take faith risks for God again, stepping out in courageous faith and how to flourish again in Him and how...

Steve Alliston preaches from Matthew 2 then welcomes Aref a wise man from the East to come and share his testimony and how he ended up in Crawley.

Joseph "The Word Became Flesh" by Crawley Community Church

This week Danny is back from Brazil and takes us through 1 Peter 5. He double clicks on two important areas 1 Peter 5:2 Eldership and also Anxiety 1 Peter 5:7 "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you".

Holy House 1 Peter 4 by Crawley Community Church

Ken Davis this week preaches on "Suffering for doing good" from 1 Peter 3 and 4 Contraversially Ken teaches the truth that we're meant to share in Christ's suffering, and abandon our theology of comfort. 1. We share in Christ's suffering 2. We share in His death and resurrection 3. We share in His proclamation

Sunday we had the pleasure of hosting Biro and Patricia from Agape church in Brazil. Biro shares briefly (with Danny translating) for 10 mins on their church plant in Brazil, then we have Dave Holden share prophetically. New Ground is a family of churches led by Dave Holden and the New Ground core team. We believe that God has called us to play our part in His great mission to see many churches pl...

Steve and Caz Alliston beautifully unpack the truth in 1 Peter 3 as part of our Holy House series where we are walking through the book of 1 Peter.

Danny Lucena preaches from 1 Peter Chapter 2 in our Series entitled Holy House as we walk through Peter's letter to encourage the early church that was scattered and suffering for the faith, giving them comfort and hope.

Steve Burston from St John's joined us this Sunday to talk about being a generous church.

Steve Alliston unpacks 1 Peter 2 - being Livingstones in God's House - what does this mean for us as a church?