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Here Comes ... Joy Series: Here comes … Date preached: 4th December 2022 Here comes Christmas. SO WHAT? Most people know that Christmas has something to Jesus. Many people know it’s his birthday. Some even know the story. But so what? What does the Christmas story have to do with my life today? In this series we’re going to dig into the original Christmas and discover some amazing ways it can impa...

NO death Series: NOvember Date preached: 27th November 2022 No and never are words a lot of people associate with God and the church: don’t do this, you're never allowed to do that! But Jesus said “no and never” to some other things that flipped the way people saw God, saw themselves and saw others. This week we look at Jesus’ message that he came ‘end death’ and open the door to ‘eternal life...

DON’T judge Series: NOvember Date preached: 20th November 2022 No and never are words a lot of people associate with God and the church: don’t do this, you're never allowed to do that! But Jesus said “no and never” to some other things that flipped the way people saw God, saw themselves and saw others. This week we look at a Jesus’ bold words when he said “do not judge”.   Questions to reflect...

NEVER give up in prayer Series: NOvember Date preached: 13th November 2022 No and never are words a lot of people associate with God and the church: don’t do this, you're never allowed to do that! But Jesus said “no and never” to some other things that flipped the way people saw God, saw themselves and saw others. This week we look at a powerful story Jesus told when he said “never give up pra...

NO condemnation Series: NO-vember Date preached: 6th November 2022 No is a word a lot of people associate with God and the church: don’t do this, you're not allowed to do that! But Jesus said “no” to some other things that flipped the way people saw God, saw themselves and saw others. This week we look at one of the most unexpected claims the early church made about God when they said that “Je...

God is love Series: 1 John Date preached: 23rd October 2022 John writes a letter to encourage young churches to stay focussed on Jesus in the face of all sorts of ‘new’ ideas emerging in the world around them. His two-thousand year old words have a lot to say to the church today.   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What ideas and images come to mind when you hear words like...

Step into the Light Series: 1 John Date preached: 16th October 2022 John writes a letter to encourage young churches to stay focussed on Jesus in the face of all sorts of ‘new’ ideas emerging in the world around them. His two-thousand year old words have a lot to say to the church today.   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What ideas and images come to mind when you hear wo...

God … use me Series: Powerful Prayers Date preached: 9th October 2022 Most Christian prayers begin with “God … give me”. Whether we are praying for healing, for financial help or a good result in our exams, essentially we’re asking God to give us something. This series explores the power we can experience when we expand our prayer life beyond “give me”. In this talk, Matt explores the power of pra...

God … forgive me Series: Powerful Prayers Date preached: 18th September 2022 Most Christian prayers begin with “God … give me”. Whether we are praying for healing, for financial help or a good result in our exams, essentially we’re asking God to give us something. This series explores the power we can experience when we expand our prayer life beyond “give me”. In this talk, Matt explores the power...

God … speak to me Series: Powerful Prayers Date preached: 11th September 2022 Most Christian prayers begin with “God … give me”. Whether we are praying for healing, for financial help or a good result in our exams, essentially we’re asking God to give us something. This series explores the power we can experience when we expand our prayer life beyond “give me”. In this talk, Matt explores the powe...

God says about you “you are designed for eternity” Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion) Date preached: 4th September 2022 One thing - perhaps an unexpected thing - that God says about each of us is “you are designed for eternity”. We are created to like forever … and God is so desperate for us to live forever with him that he sent Jesus to die to make that possible. Today we explore these really...

God says about you “you are called” Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion) Date preached: 28th August 2022 One thing God says about everyone who follows Jesus is … you are called. Every believer is called and today, Matt explores this call and asks how we will respond to God’s call on our lives   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What does it mean to you to be called by God...

God says about you “you are unique” Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion) Date preached: 21st August 2022 God thinks you are unique. Not because of anything you’ve done, but because of who you are. It’s an easy idea to nod along to. But to really believe this … it’s life-changing. Today Matt explores this idea, asking us to think about how we respond to this truth and what we will do with it.   Q...

God says “you are loved” Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion) Date preached: 14th August 2022 Most people have heard the idea that “God loves you” … but for many people this idea has become a cliche, with little real impact on our day to day lives. Today Matt invites us to sit with this truth in our hearts as well as our minds, asking ourselves “how does this affect the way I live today”?   Ques...

God calls you “my child” Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion) Date preached: 7th August 2022 We talk a lot about what we think about God … but what does God think about you? Today Matt explores one of the life-changing things God says about his followers when he calls you “his child”. (And if you’re a Christian and this sounds like “Ho hum … I’ve heard this before”, think again. This is radical...

What is the biggest IDOL in your life?  Series: IDOLS Date preached: 24th July 2022 In this series we’ve talked about all sorts of IDOLS (see our other messages) and today we wrap up this series talking about the BIGGEST IDOL OF ALL … you! We live in a world that says me first. It’s my life and I’ll live it my way. No one is going to tell me what to do. Jesus came to show us a radically different...

Body & Health Series: IDOLS Date preached: 24th July 2022 Diet, exercise, wellness, health … these words drive so much of how we live in the 21st century. Today Matt explores what it looks like when our ‘physical selves’ become an idol, and what we can do about it when it does   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What is your first reaction when you hear the idea that th...

Is God more important than my family? Series: IDOLS Date preached: 17th July 2022 We can’t talk about things that we put as first place in our life and things that we look to for joy, security and meaning, without talking about … family? But can your family really be an idol? in this message Matt looks at the unexpected words of Jesus on the subject of family and we ask some tough questions about...

Worshipping work Series: IDOLS Date preached: 10th July 2022 One of the first questions we ask someone we meet is “what do you do?” Many of us define ourselves by what we do. Our work gives us meaning and purpose. While we might not think of it this way, our work becomes an idol - something we put in the central place in our lives, that place reserved for Jesus. In this message, Matt discusses “th...

Money, money, money Series: IDOLS Date preached: 3rd July 2022 Idols aren’t just gold statues of other ‘gods’. An idol is anything we put in the central place in our lives - the place God should be. In this series we look at some of the idols many of us struggle with … and there’s no bigger idol in our culture than money. In this message Matt talks about the impact of setting up money in the centr...

Be Happy Series: IDOLS Date preached: 19th June 2022 Idols aren’t just gold statues of other ‘gods’. An idol is anything we put in the central place in our lives - the place God should be. In this series we look at some of the many of us struggle with … and today we explore the idol of happiness. Why do we ‘worship’ happiness and what can we do to put God back where he belongs at the centre of our...

History Makers: living a life that will make history Series: - - - Date preached: 19th June 2022 There’s a part of all of us that images ourselves as the heroes of the stories going on around us. In reality many of us feel like extras. Today we reflect on the life of Ananias (don’t worry nobody’s ever heard of him) and we ask ourselves what does it look like to live a history-making life?   Questi...

Faith Series: ON PURPOSE Date preached: 12th June 2022 “Faith is a certainty about what we do not see”. What does this mean and how do we get there? In a world dominated by facts and data where we believe only what we can see and touch and prove, what does it mean to live a life of “faith”.   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What do you think about when you first hear a st...

Joy Series: ON PURPOSE Date preached: 5th June 2022 If you ask an average person what words come to mind when they think about Christians “joy” is probably not high on their list. And yet Jesus was full of joy. In this message we explore the kind of joy Jesus talked about and discover how to achieve it in our lives.   Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message: 1. What words first come...

Generosity Series: ON PURPOSE Date preached: 29th May 2022 Almost every writer in the New Testament talks somewhere about the importance of practicing “hospitality”, yet we don’t talk about it much in the modern church. Today we explore this important word: what it means, why we should do it, and the value it has to our mission to impact the world with the good news of Jesus.   Questions to reflec...