St Matthias, Brighton - Talks

Tom kicks off our new series taking a fresh look at the Old Testament book of Ruth. This first act of Ruth challenges us to recognise how stereotypes and labels limit us and our understanding of others. - and how our willingness to cross borders can stop cycles of harm and conflict, recognise the humanity of the people caught up in them and take hold of the things we can control to change the futu...

Join Kate as she rounds up this our series introducing the concept of following and practising the way of Jesus. But what does a life lived in apprenticeship to Jesus look like? How do we balance our hopes, our plans and dreams for becoming more like Jesus with the reality of our flaws, failings and messy reality? What does persevering through the pressured times of our lives look like as we run t...

In this deep-dive session, we go beneath the surface of spiritual formation, exploring how our everyday habits, routines, and the “storied” rituals we inhabit shape our hearts and direct our lives. Building on the foundations from our Sunday talks in the Practising The Way series, this session grapples with the unseen influences guiding your desires and choices, the importance of embodied spiritua...

In this talk, Clark explores what it means to embrace the process of spiritual formation through regular, intentional practice. Using 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 as a foundation, Clark unpacks the analogy of running a race—highlighting how training and doing the deeper work of transformation shape us into people who live like Jesus. He also delves into the importance of a “Rule of Life,” drawing from an...

The first of our Live Well community events helping us navigate life's tricky topics. Hear local psychologist Kate Middleton talk about the challenges of parenting in this season and her three top skills we need to equip our kids and teens with in order to support their emotional wellbeing and resilience through whatever life - and their future - brings.

Tom thinks about what it means to practically live out Jesus' teachings in our daily lives, and how our personal transformation enables us to engage in and be part of Kingdom work.

Clark explores the process of inner transformation and character formation, and how our habits and practices shape us into Christ's likeness, focusing on the renewal of our minds and hearts.

Kate lays down the foundation for our future episodes by being with Jesus.

In a new season for St Matthias, Clark lays out the invitation to follow Jesus and see the transformation of our lives and our community.

Tom lays out a big vision for our church, community and city that has been prayerfully developed with the wider church leadership team. This vision is way too big for us to do in our own strength and starts with our own transformation through the power of our discipleship to Jesus. This weeks reading are Romans 3: 27-28 and Philippians 2: 1-4

Flo finishes our series looking at the favourite sayings of Jesus talking us through Matthew 13: 53-58

In August we are asking members of our congregation what are their favourite sayings of Jesus. In our latest episode Katherine Le Roux takes us through John 21: 1-14.

In August we are asking members of our congregation what are their favourite sayings of Jesus. To kick off the season, Millie takes us through John 4: 21-26.

Starting our mini series on Parties, Johnny takes a look at the origins of his favourite festival and what it means for us today.

Finishing off our series on the role our faith plays in politics, Tom and guests explore what it means to be actively involved in promoting shalom in our local community. To find out more about Christian Action Brighton visit: https://www.christianactionbrighton.org.uk/ To find out more about Citizens Brighton and Hove visit: https://www.citizensuk.org/chapters/brighton-hove/

Is the current political climate negatively forming us or are we positively influencing it?

In the first episode of a new series on the relationship between our faith and politics, Richard looks at what the bible has to say about politics and how this has effected the relationship between the church and the ordering of our society.

In the penultimate episode of our series on prayer, Kate helps us navigate when prayers don't get answered.

On Pentecost Sunday Tom invites us to pray one of the oldest and shortest prayers in the Christian Church.

Kate continues the Invitation of Prayer series looking at the call to prayer together.

Building on the last 2 weeks Clark looks at the practice of prayer.

Clark continues our series on prayer looking at God's invitation to bask in his presence.

Clark kicks of our new series on prayer with an invitation rather than obligation to prayer.