Widcombe Parish, Bath

17/Mar/2019: Julie Campbell speaks on Abiding from Psalm 27: 'One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple'

17/Feb/2019: Jenny Buckler speak on pruning - a sign of God’s favour and kindness in our lives from Psalm 1: 'Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields...

10/Feb/2019: Tim Buckley speaks on God calling us to come deeper into Him; it is in the deep waters we catch what God has for us from Isaiah 6.1-8 and Luke 5.1-11: 'When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.’ Simon answered, ‘Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down th...

03/Feb/2019: Paul Wakely speaks on abiding as intentional disciples, filled with the Holy Spirit from John 14:15-18: 'If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you for ever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be...

20/Jan/2019: Tim Buckley speaks on bearing fruit in our lives from John 15:8 'This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples'.

13/Jan/2019: Tim Buckley speaks on knowing our identity in Christ as we abide in Him from Is. 43.1-7 and Luke 3.17-22: 'When all the people were being baptised, Jesus was baptised too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased".'

06/Jan/2019: Jenny Buckler speaks on God’s call to be intentional disciples of Jesus - His call for fresh intentionality in 2019 in our pursuit of Him. Just as we see in the Magi on this Epiphany day in Matthew 2:1-12 and Isaiah 60:1-6.

02/Dec/2018: Tim Buckley speaks on the Christmas Story at the Carols by Laser Light service.

25/Nov/2018: Tim Buckley speaks on Jesus as Messiah from Matt 16.13-18: 'But what about you?’ he asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ and Isaiah 9:2-7: 'The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned ... For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the g...

18/Nov/2018: Sarah Buckley and Sue Wakeley speak on Jesus as Truth from John 14.1-14 and 1 John 5:18-21 : 'Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'

11/Nov/2018: Tim Buckley speaks on Jesus as Lamb from Isaiah 53:1-12 and Mark 14.12-28: 'He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pi...

04/Nov/2018: Paul Wakely speaks on Jesus as Friend from Revelation 3:14-20 and John 15:9-17: 'Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.'; 'My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if y...

28/Oct/2018: Julie Campbell speaks on Jesus as Judge from 2 Tim 4:1-8 and John 5:8-27: 'Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father...

21/Oct/2018: Jenny Buckler speaks on Jesus as our Bridegroom from Revelation 19:5-9 and Matthew 25:1-13. Jesus wants us each to know the Holy intimacy of His love. Rev 19:5-9: 'Then a voice came from the throne, saying: ‘Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both great and small!' Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peal...

14/Oct/2018: Tim Buckley speaks from Philippians 2:5-11 and Luke 6:46-49 on Jesus as LORD. Luke 6:46-49: 'Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do what I say? As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When the flood came, the torr...

07/Oct/2018: (Apologies for the poor recording). Jenny Bucker speaks from Philippians 2:1-8 and John 13:1-17 on Jesus as Servant. Phil 2:1-8 'In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant...

30/Sept/2018: Tim Buckley speaks from Matt 16.13-20 on Jesus's question to His disciples: 'Who do you say I am? Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.'

16/Sept/2018: (Apologies for the poor recording) Jenny Buckler speaks from Mark 1.1-8 on God's call to greater intimacy through repentance: 'John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him'.

09/Sept/2018: Mary Udale-Smith speaks from John 1.1-14 on God sending Jesus, so that the world can have a relationship with Him: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind'

22/July/2018: Jenny Buckler speaks from Acts 9.31 on the church being built up by the Lord: 'Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.'

08/July/2018: Julie Campbell speaks from Matthew 16:13-19 on Jesus building his church. Jesus said in Matt 16:18: ‘I will build my church’: > ‘I’ - Live in the truth of who God is, revealed in God's names in the Bible. > ‘WILL’ - His entire will, the force of His being is to build His church. > ‘BUILD’ - He builds His church numerically, and also He builds up each person in the church. > ‘MY’ - Th...

24/June/2018: In the final sermon on the The Fruit of the Spirit, Adrian Youings, Archdeacon of Bath, speaks from Gal 5.16-26 on 'living by the Spirit' and the Gospel of grace.

17/June/2018: Paul Wakely speaks on Self Control, from 2 Tim 1.1-7 'For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline'.

10/Jun/2018: Tim Buckley spoke on 'running the race' before us. Hebrews 12.1-2 'let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith'.

03/Jun/2018: (Sorry for the poor sound quality). Miles Andrews and Tim Buckley speak on Gentleness, from 2 Tim 3.14-26. Miles looks at three aspects of gentleness - gentleness in our relationship with one another, gentleness in our relationship with God, and gentleness in God’s relationship with us.