Family Church Portsmouth

Pastor Stue continues the theme of Kairos this week speaking about “Our Position and Purpose” in this Kairos moment.  In Matthew 24, Jesus speaks about end times, of many earthquakes, natural disasters and signs in the heavens and on earth. Also that darkness will increase wickedness on earth. We do live in a world that is pretty broken, according to Jesus - the acceptable year of the Lord or...

Pastor Andy continues the theme of Kairos, this week focusing on knowing the time we are in. Kairos is about this being a God moment, a Divine moment of opportunity for us individually and as a whole in the church. Andy speaks of us being in God ordained moments just as Noah, Joseph and others saw themselves in.  God creates specific moments for specific things that he's doing on the earth. W...

Today is Vision Sunday across all congregations of Family Church.  Pastor Andy speaks about the vision for the church for the whole of this year 2023. Naturally the church’s mission is to reach, grow and empower people and reach those who do not yet know Jesus. However, Andy has specific words for our Vision during 2023. We are in a moment, perhaps unprecedented, where God is about to move by...

Today is week three of the series on Encountering God afresh. Pastor Andy speaks with fresh zeal for our encounter with our Lord God. Encounters with God change lives. God never wanted us to have a religion about him, He wanted us to have a relationship with Himself - these are two completely different things! Many lives were changed as a result of encounters with God and many are recorded in scri...

Pastor Andy continues with his theme for us having new and fresh encounters with God. We need a fresh encounter with God. The good news is that God wants to give us fresh encounters. When we read about Jesus in the gospels, He always said, ‘Come to me all those who are thirsty’.  We need to thirst and desire Him in our hearts. We need Him to be our Lord and King, the good news is that He says...

This week Pastor Andy begins a new set of messages about us truly encountering God – not just knowing about Him. A real encounter is something that will change our lives forever. Andy desires for each of us to have a fresh encounter with Jesus in this New Year, that our lives be changed forever. Zacchaeus had to climb a tree to get an encounter without striving. We need to position our lives also...

Pastor Andy speaks today about the Spirit & Atmosphere of Christmas. The true meaning of Christmas is Christ Jesus the Messiah who was given to us by God. The Christmas spirit seems to make people happy, indeed our Christmas cards are full of the words, Love, Joy, and Peace - things the world seems unable to provide! But do we lose all this the minute we pack away the Christmas tree, or is God...

This week Pastor Andy concludes the series on Family Church values with the title ‘We are Honourable’. We are a people who give honour to each other and to God according to Scripture. Pastor Andy expounds this. The church needs to take a different direction to the world where people are choosing to be less honourable. We are the people of God, God has called us to be his people, and that makes us...

Today Ps Sean continues the series on Family Church values with the title ‘We are Responsive’. Being responsive means we are fast to respond or react appropriately, or sympathetically. The converse of this is being static and showing no interest, concern or emotion. We need to be people who are in the same place physically, emotionally and spiritually. Football fans are often more responsive than...

Pastor Steu continues the series on Family Church Values this week by speaking about how we are Servant Hearted. We value serving one another and we value serving the purpose of God in Our Generation. In John 13:34-35, Jesus is speaking to His disciples and says “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you ar...

Pastor Andy continues the series on the values of Family Church with this week’s message “We are Family”. We celebrate our diversity in culture and age and are committed to developing healthy relationships in order that church isn’t just a meeting, but a community which resembles a family with values from scripture. Andy speaks about us being born again, how God gave us a new birth and becomes our...

This week Janine speaks about the what, why and how of worship as we continue the series devoted to Family Church Values.  Janine began by looking for a single verse about worship in scripture, but there are 188 references to worship and 259 references to praise in the Bible! Reading her Bible she looked at verses saying….’He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak’….’...

This week Ps Sean continues the series on Values of Family Church with ‘We are Spiritual’. He references the story of Nicodemus in John 3. Jesus tells Nicodemus he must be born again in order to see the Kingdom of God but Nicodemus does not understand what He (Jesus) means.  But when Jesus speaks to us, He is not speaking logic and understanding. He is speaking Spirit and life. Often, like Ni...

Pastor Andy addresses the Portsmouth Congregation upon the twenty fifth anniversary of the formation of Family Church. Andy and his wife Gina are the Senior Pastors of Family Church. Since the launch of our very first service in 1997, Family Church has grown into the thriving multi-congregational church it is today with congregations across the south-coast, the Philippines and an online congregati...

This week Pastor Gina speaks about another of Family Church values – we are Bible Believing. We walk in the unchanging truth of God’s Word, resolved to never add to it nor take from it. We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. The 66 books are compiled by about 40 writers but all are authored by God. The Bible has one theme throughout – Redemption – God sending a saviour to save us from o...

Following the first three values of Family Church (Christ Centred, Commissioned & Discipled), Pastor Andy continues the series speaking about ‘We are Empowering’. This means we are equipping disciples to serve God’s purposes in all spheres of life (not just in church).  Pastor Andy says he does not wish the church to be a storage unit for people, but rather a place where people are equipp...

This week Ps Sean speaks about us being Disciples. This follows on in the series of Family Values for Family Church that began a few weeks back.  The word Disciple is used many times in the Bible, whereas the word Christian is barely mentioned. Disciple means learner or pupil but also to imitate the teacher – ie Jesus. We need to be disciples of Jesus and also disciple others in their Christi...

This week Pastor Andy speaks on the second of the series on Family Values in our church. This is “We are Commissioned”. This follows from last week’s message on the first of our values – being Christ Centred. Being commissioned means we are living passionately to share the gospel, locally, nationally and globally. This is an essential value to us because it's a vitally important one to Him. If Jes...

This week Pastor Andy speaks about the first in a new series concerning the Values of Family Church. The first Value is that we are Christ Centred.  We are committed to keeping Jesus and his Kingdom at the centre of our lives and His church. This is our passion. Some values in a church are more cultural, but this value is first in importance with our prayer being that everything that we are t...

Pastor Andy gives an introduction to the forthcoming series of messages concerning Family Values. Family Church has its own flavour which distinguishes it from other churches possibly, but as you will see, these values are fundamental to living a Christ centred life. In following weeks, the messages will concentrate on the values for Family Church which are: Christ Centred - Committed to keeping J...

This is week four of the series on Matters of the Heart. Ps Sean speaks about a heart on fire for Jesus. One of his principle scriptures is Luke 24; 30-32 where the Disciple’s eyes were opened in His presence. Reading from verse 30 (NKJV) “Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew...

Ps Carla talks about a heart of forgiveness in this third week of messages concerning matters of the heart. Her principle scripture is the parable of the unforgiving debtor from Matthew 18:21-35 (NLT) "Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven! "Therefore, the Kingdom...

This week Ps Steu speaks on Part 2 of the 4 week series ‘Matters of the Heart’. The title this week is ‘ A Heart That’s Guarded ’. Ps Steu is not talking about the physical heart that pumps blood around our bodies; but essentially speaking of our souls, at the very core of our being, where our emotions flow from. Ps Paula’s subject last week was ‘A Heart of Love’ and she spoke about how we, as God...

Ps Paula starts a new four part series on "Matter of the Heart". A healthy heart spiritually is as important as a healthy heart physically. A bad heart can fill us with envy, jealousy, insecurity and all manner of spiritual harms. God sent Jesus, that he might create in us a healthy heart, a heart that is full of hope, a heart, and spirit of forgiveness and a heart that's full of love. He heals ou...

Pastor Andy concludes his three week series on Kingdom Economics with this message about the giving, specifically a lifestyle of sowing and reaping. Sowing & reaping is about having a lifestyle of giving that has a direct relationship with tithing. It’s about putting seeds in the prepared ground that tithing correctly has provided for us. Thinking like a farmer, the world of farming and agricu...