King's Church Birmingham

Psalm 103 is a beautiful hymn of praise. It’s a call remember God and all His benefits. As human beings we are so prone to forgetfulness. We get fixated on what we don’t have and we overlook the 1001 things that God is doing in our lives. This Psalm calls us to look upon God’s works again, to get reacquainted with His compassion and goodness. To remember the scope of His great love. To marvel at t...

Join us this Sunday as we gather again to worship God and hear Andy and Zoe lead us through Psalms 81 & 82.

Join us this Sunday as we gather again to worship God and hear Sam and Lucy lead us through Psalms 23 & 24.

This Psalm speaks of the cross of Christ. It is littered with prophetic allusions pointing us to the suffering of Jesus. This Psalm was presumably on Jesus heart as he journeyed through Good Friday, His strength to endure to agonies of calvary. Today let Psalm 22 be your source of strength. It speaks a word to those struggling, those feeling abandoned and far from God. Our hope rests in the fact t...

As we begin a new series in the Psalms we meet a God who is high and far above us, yet intimately interested in us. We discover we are much smaller, and much bigger, than we might think.

Habakkuk is faced with a period of economic disaster v17. We see how he is both real about the situation and yet how he then moves to a place of confidence in God. Christian maturity is often defined by our ability to be real about our fears and anxieties as well as then taking them before a kind and gracious saviour. Like Habakkuk, we need to learn the secret of choosing to rejoice v18, to receiv...

In response to God Habakkuk sings of all that God has done in the past and will do in the future. He fuels himself with stories from the Bible to sing and pray that God comes and does the same sort of thing again: rescues his people, rights wrong, shows himself to be glorious. We learn that God is a warrior who fights for us, that he defeats Sin, Death and the Enemy on our behalf, and that he can...

The bible teaches us that we all desire glory and that we seek it in different ways. The Babylonians are a sobering example of how this pride can be both fleeting and destructive. The promise held out to us in Habakkuk 2, is that one day the knowledge of God’s glory will fill the earth. Like Habakkuk, if we are captivated by, and start living for, His glory, we will become the humble, joyful, serv...

The book of Habakkuk provides practical help for times when our foundations are shaken. When we are asking questions of God and wrestling with all that’s going on in the world. When our circumstances speak loudly, the book of Habakkuk teaches us how we might live by faith and not by sight. And ultimately, it gives us hope, that God himself would come and that through Him the ‘righteous will live b...

11 years have passed, the Babylonians have invaded and made Jerusalem into a vassal state. The judgement upon the evil rulers that Habakkuk longed for has happened, but the cure looks much worse than the disease. Habakkuk begins to question God. Far from being a sign of weak faith, we can learn from him how to go to God with our questions too.

Habakkuk has lived through the reign of King Josiah and enjoyed the blessings of Godly reform in the nation. Now under the ungodly leadership of Josiah’s son, Habakkuk is wrestling with the realities of injustice, oppression and the law of God being paralysed. Habakkuk is a book that speaks to our day and helps us to be real with our doubts and frustrations but also helps us find God in their mids...

Whilst on the surface Romans 16 starts off with just a list of names and greetings, we discover this is actually one of the most instructive chapters in the New Testament. Why? Because it shows us that the church is not just an organisation but the family of God. A family led by Fathers as well as Mothers, made up of brothers and sisters all playing their part for the glory of God.

In Romans 15 Paul describes his desires for the future and asks his readers to pray for him that this would come about. The prayer is answered, but almost certainly not in the way he would have wanted. We explore together how we approach disappointment, what it teaches us and why Jesus is still worth following even if he doesn’t do what we might choose.

Our God is, ‘the God of endurance and encouragement (v5)’. What an amazing description of our God, one that we need to hear and know in these times. As we hear from God’s Word we draw near to the one who helps us, by the power of His Holy Spirit, to not only endure faithfully, but to find joy, as we are encouraged in Him.

v23 is a game changer. ‘whatever does not proceed from faith is sin’. Let that verse sink in. Jesus is calling us to a life of faith. To a growing sensitivity to His presence and hearing his voice in our lives. We are supposed to be a people appalled by sin and enthralled by Jesus. The extent we grasp and apply this verse, will affect the depth that we go as effective disciples of Jesus.

Paul describes two groups: the weak who feel that Jewish food laws and Sabbath-keeping are required for mature Christians, and the strong who recognise that the gospel frees us from these requirements. Paul aligns himself with the strong but is much more interested in pointing their hearts towards each other. We explored the divisions that can emerge within our church and between us and other chur...

In the second part of Romans 13, Paul continues to teach his readers what it means to live as a Christian in a society which is inhospitable to their faith. Here he majors on Christian behaviour, using the images of owing a debt (vs 8-10), watching the time (vs 11-13), and wearing a uniform (v 14). We are encouraged to remember that being a Christian is not just believing certain things but also a...

If Jesus is Lord that means Nero is not; our primary allegiance, as citizens of God’s kingdom is to Jesus. However, that doesn’t lead to anarchy or social breakdown but as believers we are empowered to honour our governments, trusting that their very authority is delegated by God Himself. Sadly, in history this truth has often been abused to enforce submission to injustice, like apartheid in South...

Paul begins to outline what it looks like to be a community that is transformed by the renewing of our minds. He lists a series of commands that describe how we behave towards one another inside the church, and then how we behave towards those outside who do harm to us. We are to love genuinely, putting others first and being united by our familial love. It sounds easy, its incredibly challenging.

In this second part of Romans 12 Paul helps us to think right. To have a ‘high view of God, a realistic view of ourselves and the right view of others’. Although Jesus had the highest status of all he chose to serve, and we are called to do likewise. But we also delight that God, in His grace has given us a multitude of gifts. We celebrate that no person has all the gifts but together, as His body...

In the preceding chapters of Romans, Paul has set out the glorious truth of the gospel and all that it means for those who trust in Jesus. Paul now wants us to live the gospel — to live in response to God's mercy and grace, and to live in the fullness of all the gospel has won for us. When we understand who we are in Christ, and renew our minds in line with this truth, we can be transformed! Livin...

Paul concludes this section of the letter by promising the full salvation of both Gentile and Jew. The promise to the gentiles is that they will be grafted into God’s people. The promise to the Jews is that ultimately all Israel will be saved. These truths are the antidote to anti-Semitism where Gentiles are the majority in the church in Rome. These gentiles, like us, are warned not to take their...

Paul’s explorations of Israel’s refusal to believe in the Christ—and the way they pursued the law by works instead of faith—led him to ask “has God abandoned his people?” He answers an emphatic no! He proves this personally (he is proof), theologically (grace is grace), biblically (the remnant in Elijah’s time), and looking at the contemporary world (many Jews had come to faith). We can also feel...

Paul wants to stir the Romans to action that they might be sent to preach Christ, and that many might hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord (v14-15). Paul is confident in the gospel and wants us to be too. He quotes Isaiah 52:7 ‘how beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news’ to encourage us that we have an incredible gospel to proclaim. He finishes the section by helping us see...

Andrew encouraged us from our latest passage by reminding us once more that salvation is by grace alone. That in one sense the gospel is incredibly simple and ‘all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved!’. We are encouraged by Andrew’s own personal journey and heard how God delivered him out of works and religion into discovering a relationship with Jesus founded on grace. That a true unde...