Growing Together in the Gospel

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 3: What's in a Name? In this talk we explore Exodus Ch. 3 which records the moment Moses encounters God at the burning bush. A strange sight gets his attention… but what really changes him is not the fire, it's a name. At first, God introduces Himself as Elohim which means the Mighty One. But then something shifts. God says: &qu...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 2: Fear and Faithfulness In this podcast we continue in the book of Exodus, looking at chapter 1 & 2 and the world it describes - a world shaped by fear. Pharaoh isn't threatened by rebellion or violence, but by fruitfulness. Israel is multiplying and flourishing, and he panics. That alone says a lot. Fear doesn't always wai...

Send us your questions or feedback here The Exodus Way Part 1: A God Who Rescues In this podcast we begin a new series of teaching around the book of Exodus. Exodus is not just the story of Israel escaping Egypt. It's the pattern the Bible keeps returning to as it explains who God is and who we are through the story of a people in bondage, held by a power that refuses to let go. In the darkne...

Send us your questions or feedback here Inhabiting the Gospel Part 4: Who the Bible Says We Are  The Bible says we are God’s handiwork and thus a most wonderful creation. Sadly, too often, as we journey through our lives, we forget this and allow the world to define us – our friends, our family, our selves. The enemy delights in distracting us from becoming the person God wants us to be. This serm...

Send us your questions or feedback here Inhabiting the Gospel Part 3 – Guarding Our Hearts In this sermon, Dean looks at our hearts. Jesus said that it is not what goes into our mouth that defiles us, but what comes out. What we say, and what we do, all come from our hearts. If we truly want to inhabit the gospel and transform our walk with Jesus, we need to pay attention to our hearts. If you fin...

Send us your questions or feedback here Inhabiting the Gospel Part 2: Making and Inhabiting Space We continue to work through this series on  how to not only live but inhabit the Gospel story. We know what Jesus did during His life, and we know the promise of what is to come but, in between, there is now. This is the space that we occupy. In this sermon, using the story of Elisha and the widow of...

Send us your questions or feedback here Inhabiting the Gospel Part 1 – Hearing the Gospel Afresh In this new series of sermons, we are challenged to look afresh at our relationship to the God who fashioned every detail of our lives and the world around us and who, recognising our inability to live in the way He intended us to, sent His Son to walk among us. He did all of this out of the abundance...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 8 – Daniel’s Epiphany! What, you might ask, has Daniel got to do with the Christmas story? In this epilogue to the Daniel series, Dean bridges the four-hundred-year void between Daniel, as he lived and followed God faithfully in Babylon, and the events of that night when Mary and Joseph trusted God in Bethlehem. Most people are familiar with the...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 7 – Not Just Forgiven … In this teaching on the last two chapters of Daniel we are taken on a journey through History and shown how what was relevant to Daniel, was relevant to the people who lived around the time of Christ, and remains relevant to us as we live our lives today. Daniel had lived his life in Babylon. He had faced the challenge of...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 6: You are Precious to Me As we move through the Book of Daniel, we find ourselves in Chapters 8-12.  Daniel is an old man. We know he has been faithful to God throughout his life because we have listened to his story. And for this faithfulness, he is told that he is greatly esteemed by God. He has been exiled into a foreign land; his name has be...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 5 – Faith in a Den of Lions. Today we look at one of the best-known stories in the Bible. Darius is the new emperor, and he is encouraged by his advisors to issue a decree that no-one could pray to any god other than to the king, for a month. The decree demands a response from everyone in the empire; it demands a response from Daniel. The manoeuv...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 4 – The Writing on the Wall … but Nevertheless In today’s sermon focusing on chapter 5, we look at one of the most sobering moments in the book of Daniel: when God communicated directly with the king of Babylon by writing a message on his wall. Decades have passed since Nebuchadnezzar humbled himself before God. Babylon has changed kings again an...

Send us your questions or feedback here Daniel Part 3: Godly Confrontation Today we are in Daniel Chapter 4. We’ve talked about standing out, standing firm, and standing in faith—but today we’re talking about something far less comfortable: standing up for what’s true. Daniel 4 reminds us there will be moments when following Jesus means lovingly confronting someone who’s on the wrong path. Not in...

Send us your questions or feedback here Entering the Enemy’s Strongholds Today we step further into the unbelievable story of how four young men found themselves in the heart of Babylon—facing a culture that looked impossible to break through. In this part of the story, the king of Babylon had a dream that he wanted his wise men to interpret. But there was a snag - he wasn't prepared to tell...

Send us your questions or feedback here Faithful Exiles This is the first of a series of powerful talks on the Book of Daniel drawing out the theme of "outstanding faith" in challenging times.  Daniel’s story begins in 605 BC, when Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar, conquered Judah and exiled much of its population —including Daniel. Babylon’s strategy was to assimilate the brightest yo...

Send us your questions or feedback here When Heaven Touches Earth As we complete our walk through the Book of Revelation, we find ourselves reflecting on the big picture of the Gospel story: that Jesus will return and that heaven and earth will be made new. And in reflecting, we are drawn back to what we know of Jesus from the time when He walked with us within our world. When Jesus first came int...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last:  We Will See His Face There are times when the world feels a little thin, as though creation itself were sighing for something better. Scripture names that ache for us. It’s hope, humming beneath everything, reminding us that we were made for a world we have not yet seen. In this talk we step into the final movement of Last Things Last , an...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last – The Rider and the Fall of Babylon  In this talk we find ourselves in one of the most powerful parts of Revelation: chapters 17 to 20. And at the heart of it all, the message was simple and steady: Babylon falls. The Lamb reigns. The throne still stands. Revelation reminds us that evil isn't just about personal choices. It becomes a wh...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last - Behind the Curtain In this talk we continue our journey through Revelation, this time stepping behind the curtain to see what's really going on beneath the surface of History. Revelation 12–14 doesn't just show us events. It reveals the powers behind those events — the dragon of fear and deception, the beastly systems of counterf...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last – Seals, Trumpets and Bowls In this powerful message we zoom out and look at Revelation chapters 6–16 through a wide-angle lens: the seals, trumpets, and bowls. These chapters are intense, layered, and not always easy to wrap your head around. But when you step back, a pattern begins to emerge. Each cycle begins with suffering and the chaos...

Send us your questions or feedback here In this, the third in a series of talks on the Book of Revelation, we hit pause in all the chaos  that we have experienced thus far, and turn our eyes upwards. John is taken behind the curtain of heaven and is hit with a truly amazing scene. He sees the throne, solid and unshaken, and he hears voices crying out, "Who is worthy?" That question hangs...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last - To the One who Conquers This week we continue our Last Things Last series, looking at Revelation chapters 2–3 and Jesus' words to the seven churches. Each message ended with the same phrase, "To the one who conquers…" But conquering in Revelation isn't about domination. It's not crushing enemies or winning argument...

Send us your questions or feedback here Last Things Last – The Revelation of Jesus Christ On this podcast we begin a new teaching series which we are calling, " Last Things Last", exploring the book of Revelation, not as a code to crack, but as a vision to receive. Revelation often brings to mind beasts, battles, and barcodes. But it opens with a much simpler and more stunning line: &quo...

Send us your questions or feedback here First Things First – Faith from First to Last Some seasons feel like winter — cold, slow, and uncertain. The skies are grey, and it's hard to imagine anything changing. But faith is like stepping outside in shorts and sandals on the first warm day of spring. It's not denial. It's not hype. It's a response to something real — a crocus flow...

Send us your questions or feedback here First Things First: Love the Lord Your God There's nothing better than simply being with the one you love. No agenda, no to-do list — just presence. This week, we heard a strong but tender word from Jesus in Revelation 2 — a letter dictated directly to His church. He begins with celebration: "I know your deeds, your hard work, your perseverance.&qu...