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Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond. Ps Mike continues our series, Faith For Exiles, by showing how we become culturally engaged leaders- by knowing the times. There are many unwise and unhelpful ways to respond to the cultural trends around us but one healthy way; and one true lens, Jesus, to look through as we see the world. Teachi...

Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond. Ps Mike opens our new series, Faith For Exiles, by sharing the first trait: Intimacy With Jesus. As we spend unhurried time pursuing intimacy with Jesus we discover that global revival begins with personal renewal. Teaching text: Daniel 1:1-16

Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples. Ps Mike closes our Vision//Values series by unpacking our goal of Developing Resilient Disciples and how ultimately resilience is not a test of simply getting through life, but by living out o...

Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples. This week Rev Brant Jones shares about our goal of Contending In Prayer and how prayer is a good fight and a fight we are called to - but not a fight we do alone. Teaching text: 1 Timothy 6:11...

Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples. This week Ps Mike Wardrop shares about our goal of growing Culturally Engaged Leaders; leaders who can read culture, set culture and ultimately work towards building a culture called the Kingd...

Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples. In week 1 of our new series on Encounter’s 2020 missional goals, Ps Jen Wardrop talks about our goal of being a church that has Hearts On Fire For Jesus and how that is truly maintained by pur...

What if God is trying to talk to us but we haven’t learned to listen? Ps Mike finishes our January series on hearing God by showing us how God uses other people to speak to us and how we can’t hear God well without being deeply embedded in community. Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 14:26

What if God is trying to talk to us but we haven’t learned to listen? Our guest speaker Ps Josh Greenwood from Influencers Church continues our Hearing God series by reminding us that we hear God naturally when we rest in Him in prayer and receive His love, before sharing a few helpful tests to make sure we know whose voice it is we’re listening to. Teaching text: Jeremiah 33:3

What if God is trying to talk to us: but we haven’t learned to listen? Ps Mike continues our Hearing God series by showing us how Jesus’ pattern of engagement and retreat creates space to hear from God. Our distractions lead us to a place of anxiety, but intentional rest leads to personal renewal in God. Teaching text: Mark 6:30-45

What if God is trying to talk to us: but we haven’t learned to listen? We kick off 2020 with Jemima D’Lima bringing a message from our new series Hearing God; sharing about how the Bible is the first, clearest and most consistent way to hear from God. Teaching text: 2 Timothy 3:15-17

Ps Mike finishes our Advent series, O Glorious Light on Christmas Day, by exploring the prophetic text in Isaiah 9 and the way the presence of God is our ultimate good news at Christmas. Teaching text: Isaiah 9:1-7

Ps Mike continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by looking at the story of the wise men and asking what makes them wise and showing us that we don’t have a Superman God - and that’s very good news. Teaching text: Matthew 2:1-12

Ps Mike continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by examining the angel Gabriel’s appearance to Mary, the damaging lens of cynicism and Christmas as a marker of global hope. Teaching text: Luke 1:26-38

Guest preacher Tim Hein continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by discussing the coming of Jesus shown in John’s gospel and how this deeply personal action helps us discover a sense of meaning in the universe. Teaching text: John 1:1-14

Ps Mike opens our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by explaining how the light of the world came into the world and ultimately made his home in us. Teaching text: Psalm 72:1-7

Ps Mike shares the vision for Encounter Church in 2020 and unpacks the four key directions we will explore: Developing Resilient Disciples, Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Hearts On Fire For Jesus. Teaching text: Romans 8:31-39

The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other. Our special guest Ps Steph Tai closes off our Lovember series by sharing about the powerful witness of agape love - God’s divine love - and how to receive it and share it with others to change the world. Teaching text: 1 John 4:7-21

The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other. This week Pastor Jen looks at storge - the love of family affection - and teaches us to find our true sense of family and deepest affection in God’s adoption of us as sons and daughters. Teaching text: Genesis 43:29-30

The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other. This week Pastor Mike looks at philia- the love of friendship - and challenges us to create spiritual friendships that lead us deeper in trust, accountability and faith in Jesus. Teaching text: Proverbs 18:24

The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other. In the first message of our series on Love, Ps Mike explores the idea of eros - romantic love & sexual attraction - and shares wisdom from scripture on how eros In every relationship stage can bring glory to God. Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine. As we finish the series, Ps Mike speaks to our greatest desire - for God to come in power in response to our prayers - and challenges us to instead long for the presence of God as our daily reality. Teaching text: Matthew 9:1-8

Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine. Our deepest prayer happens when nobody is looking. In this week’s message, Rev Brant Jones shares about the beauty of intimacy with Jesus in the quiet moments of our lives and how our prayer lives are driven by that intimacy, with both strategic and spontaneous benefits coming from it. Teaching text: Matthew 6:5-8

Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine. Spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and prophesying can be controversial and confronting, but in this message, Ps Jen explains why both of them are gifts in different measures and how they can bring benefit to our prayer lives and the whole church. Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine. If we want to live like Jesus, we should pray like Jesus. Ps Mike unpacks Jesus’ teaching on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, before showing us Jesus’ own prayer habit and how we need habits like this to prepare us for times of trouble in our lives. Teaching text: Matthew 6:5-15

Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine. Ps Mike kicks off our fresh new series on prayer by taking a look at why we pray and showing us why putting praise first in our lives reorients our entire lives around God and helps us find purpose. Teaching text: Philippians 4:4-7