Growing Together in the Gospel

Send us your questions or feedback here We continue to explore Acts 2 and the truth that the gospel is far bigger than simply "going to heaven one day." The gospel is the announcement that Jesus is King, heaven has come near, and the Holy Spirit is forming a people who embody the life of God together now. We reflected on how Scripture tells the story not of humanity escaping earth, but o...

Send us your questions or feedback here Acts Chapter 2 In this podcast we consider Pentecost and what it really means to live a life with God. Christianity does not simply offer a moment, an encounter, or even a powerful experience—it offers relationship. Not just, "I met Him," but "I walk with Him." Not just a spiritual high, but an ongoing, daily life with God. That matters,...

Send us your questions or feedback here Acts 1: 9-14 It's easy to forget that there was a significant period of time between Jesus' ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Probably 40 to 50 days.  Have you ever had to wait for something? I don't know about you but many of us are really poor at waiting. We are impatient to get on with things, we have plans, we need to do somethi...

Send us your questions or feedback here Acts 1: 1-12 This podcast is the first in a new series of sermons on the Book of Acts – the second part of Luke’s investigation into the life of Jesus and his ministry. We give a lot of attention to Jesus' birth, death and resurrection, but the ascension is just as vital. Without it, everything Jesus had done would remain unfinished. The ascension is no...

Send us your questions or feedback here Elijah Part 7 - Let Go and Let God! 1 Kings 19 v 9-21 After Elijah's exhaustion and despair, God doesn't let him stay in his cave of self-pity. He gives him a clear, threefold mission: anoint Hazael as king of Syria, Jehu as king of Israel, and Elisha as his prophetic successor. It sort of sounds as if Elijah as just been, well sacked. And maybe he...

Send us your questions or feedback here Elijah Part 6: The God Who Speaks. 1 Kings 19: 9-18 Elijah has run away from Jezebel and Ahab. He has been sustained by the angel of the Lord in the desert and he has arrived at Mount Horeb – the mountain of God. His instinct, when he has found himself in despair and dread, has been to run to his father, to God. And his father has loved him, and met him on t...

Send us your questions or feedback here 1 Kings 19:1-9  Following his great victory over the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, Elijah received a death threat from Queen Jezebel, who was furious that her prophets had been killed. Despite his recent triumph, Elijah was seized by fear and fled for his life southward through Judah to Beersheba, leaving his servant there before venturing alone into the...

Send us your questions or feedback here Elijah Part 4: Dear Children, Keep Yourself From Idols Today we find ourselves in 1 Kings chapter 18 at perhaps one of the most famous confrontations that you’ll find anywhere in the Old Testament: Elijah’s showdown between him and the 450 prophets of Baal. You will recall that Elijah was commissioned by God to tell King Ahab that there would be no rain unti...

Send us your questions or feedback here 1 Kings 17:17–24 — The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead Context: This passage follows Elijah's stay with the widow of Zarephath whose flour and oil God had miraculously sustained. What’s interesting about this whole episode is that God has sent Elijah to the land of the Sidonians – this is Jezebel’s home turf, a place where people worship Baal. It’...

Send us your questions or feedback here Elijah Part 2: A Little is Enough 1 King’s 17: verses 7-15.  In the previous podcast, we saw that Elijah confronted King Ahab and was immediately called by God, to the wilderness where he was fed by ravens and drew water from a small brook. In time that brook dried up and Elijah was called away again – this time to the home of a widow. In this story, we lear...

Send us your questions or feedback here Elijah Part 1: Humble, Dependent, Obedient Elijah is quite simply one of those awesome characters in Scripture. He’s a man of faith, commitment and obedience and he does very many powerful things in the name of the Lord. The very first thing that he did was to speak to King Ahab and Jezebel and to close up the heavens to declare that there would be neither d...

Send us your questions or feedback here Forgiven People - Forgiving People Part 3 This sermon is about what it means not just to be forgiven, but to actually live as forgiven people. We believe that God forgives. But learning to live in the freedom, peace, and confidence of that forgiveness wherever we are in our spiritual journey can be a slower and deeper process. You may, for example, still be...

Send us your questions or feedback here Forgiven People - Forgiving People Part 2 "If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." (Romans 12 v.18) The first talk in this series clarified what forgiveness actually is: that is causes debt ( what will I do with a wrong that has happened?) and damage (what has the wrong done to me?) Forgiveness deals with the d...

Send us your questions or feedback here Forgiven People - Forgiving People Part 1 "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." They are familiar words, but they feel very different when they meet real life. Most of us do not struggle with forgiveness in theory. We struggle with it in strained relationships, old wounds, unresolved hurt, and pain that cannot now...

Send us your questions or feedback here Hope in Difficult Circumstances: the message of Easter In this talk we are encouraged to reflect on the wonder and majesty of the events of Easter. At the start, we consider the idea of Easter as God's great "Hail Mary" , a phrase used to describe ‘ hope in difficult circumstances .’ Easter is God's one great plan to save the world. No pl...

Send us your questions or feedback here Holy Week Special - Easter People Part 5: Simon of Cyrene Holy Week is a time when we can reflect on the events that led to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. In this short series of sermons that were originally delivered in 2025, we are drawn into these events through the eyes and the experiences of five people. Some were very close to...

Send us your questions or feedback here Holy Week Special - Easter People Part 4: Doubting Thomas Holy Week is a time when we can reflect on the events that led to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. In this short series of sermons that were originally delivered in 2025, we are drawn into these events through the eyes and the experiences of five people. Some were very close to...

Send us your questions or feedback here Holy Week Special - Easter People Part 3: Joseph of Arimathea Holy Week is a time when we can reflect on the events that led to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. In this short series of sermons that were originally delivered in 2025, we are drawn into these events through the eyes and the experiences of five people. Some were very close...

Send us your questions or feedback here Holy Week Special - Easter People Part 2: Peter Holy Week is a time when we can reflect on the events that led to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. In this short series of sermons that were originally delivered in 2025, we are drawn into these events through the eyes and the experiences of five people. Some were very close to Jesus thro...

Send us your questions or feedback here Holy Week Special - Easter People Part 1: Mary the Magdalene Holy Week is a time when we can reflect on the events that led to Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. In this short series of sermons that were originally delivered in 2025, we are drawn into these events through the eyes and the experiences of five people. Some were very close...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Way of Exodus Part 8 - Redemption is just the Beginning In this, the eighth podcast in this series, Exodus chapters 14–17 show us something that is easy to miss: the Red Sea was the miracle… but it wasn't the destination. It was just the beginning. God rescues His people in a dramatic moment, but now begins the process of formation, now begins the l...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 7 - Holding Your Peace In this podcast we sit in that Red Sea moment: deep water in front of us, pressure behind us, and no obvious way through. We look at Exodus 13–14 and Psalm 106 and are reminded of something many of us need to hear again: God does not bring us to impossible places to mock us. He brings us there to show us who He is a...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 6 - Where is the Lamb?  As we have already seen, the plagues aren't God losing His temper. They are God exposing false gods, handing people over to what they insist on trusting, and repeatedly inviting repentance. The story isn't just about one stubborn man. It's about an entire death-shaped system. An empire built on fear,...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 5: Who is the LORD, that I should obey Him? In this podcast we spend time in the Exodus story asking a question that still sits behind much of everyday life, whether or not we notice it: "Who is the LORD, that I should obey Him?" Pharaoh doesn't doubt God's existence. He questions God's right to rule. And everythi...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 4: Faith Under Pressure In this episode we look at a hard but deeply real theme: faith when life gets worse, not better. We begin with the story of a man called Peter, whose life seemed to unravel layer by layer. Just as he found faith and hope, and even stood ready to be baptised, he was arrested and sent to prison. What looked like ever...