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Genesis: The Rescue Begins - We're All Abraham

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God’s rescue plan for the world begins with Abraham, it finds its culmination in Jesus and it continues with every single one of us. Let us believe in him again and allow him to fill us with his power and love and kindness. This is what it means to be great. And we’re all called to greatness.

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Genesis: The Rescue Begins - Cain and Abel

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Hannah kicks off a new teaching series on the book of Genesis, our original origins, that reminds us what these massively misunderstood introduction stories are really all about. Cain and Abel is about injustice, pain, and our work not being rewarded - experiences every one of us go through, now maybe more than ever.

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How Can I Find the Presence of God?

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Five weeks of ‘safer at home’. Our days may feel that they are merging into one, our emotions continue to be unexpected and there are daily developments in information. Amidst everything that comes with this worldwide experience, feeling a sense of peace can feel difficult. But, we know that God is here, that He is good and that He promises to provide rest for our weary souls. So- how do we experience His peace, that surpasses all human understanding, for ourselves?

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Easter Sunday: What the world needs now, and always has.

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At the beating living heart of Christianity is life - never-ending precious beautiful eternal life. Easter is about resurrection life - not just for Jesus but for us all. This is about that life and how we can all have it and share it with a world in desperate need.

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How Does God Feel About Coronavirus?

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As things continue to unfold around the world and in our city, what many of us are increasingly aware of is that we’re in a grieving process. Even if we haven’t lost anyone we know, we’re grieving plans, security, the safety of loved ones, and - to greater and lesser extents - life as we knew it before. It is safe to say, that grieving isn’t always something we’re comfortable with as a culture, and there are many things about the biblical tradition of lament that just don’t come easily to us. So this talk is all about that. As we continue to work out how to work this out in our faith, it has to start with a close look at what God thinks about all pain and suffering in his glorious creation.

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How to Trust God in the Trench.

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We’re isolated, and yet so together in the fact that (almost certainly without exception) we’re now having to trust God for things that used to feel like ours to control. A couple of verses in Romans 12 are very good ones to hang onto in all this: Be Transformed By The Renewing of Your Mind… This talk is about WHY it is we need to be transformed, whose job it is to do the transforming (hint - the answer is the holy spirit), and how we can allow him to do that.

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How To Face Trouble.

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In the midst of uncertainly, anxiety and threat, it’s more important than ever that we learn how to best respond to, and allow God into, our troubles. We’re all equal in the face of coronavirus. We’re all fragile, but God treats us with great care. He cares more than we could know, and He has the power to calm every storm, heal every disease, and comfort us in every trouble.

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The Holiness of Health 7: Bringing it to God

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How do we approach God? Without knowing God is safe and good and kind, it’s always going to be very difficult to let him into the areas of our lives we most need his power and love for us. Jesus says God is a father to us. But what does this actually mean?

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The Holiness of Health 6: Loving Well

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We all know the importance of love. Without it our lives can be withered and empty. But it’s one thing to know the theory and quite another to actually put it into practice. So how can we learn to love well? This talk is an attempt to go beneath just surface theory and help us work out how we might love in meaningful, christ-like, incarnational ways.

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The Holiness of Health 5: Grief and Loss

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Grief isn’t something we often talk about in daily life, but the reality is, it is something we all experience more than we think we do. Whether it the loss of someone we love dearly, the betrayal of a trusted friend, the loss of a job opportunity, or something we had planned for ourselves.

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The Holiness of Health 3: Work from Rest

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What stops you from giving yourself a break? God created us to work from a place of rest, and yet so often we do the opposite - we rest from work. We toil and strive, working too long hours with no enough fulfillment, and find ourselves collapsing into the weekend, trying to recover before work starts again.

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The Holiness of Health 2: Go Back to Go Forward

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What makes us what we’re like? Why do we behave in the ways we do? In order to go forward in life, we often have to go back to revisit some of the painful experience in life which have been most formational. We don’t do this to ‘heal ourselves’ or for a spot of self-indulgent naval gazing, but rather to let the Holy Spirit in so that he can bring his supernatural power to heal and restore us. The more we’re able to do this the more we can live free from the power of the past and become the whole people we were created to be.

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New Year, New You? Don’t Rush

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In the first service of 2020, we consider what God is calling us to be and to do, both individually and as a church community. Throughout the Bible, the people of God are confronted with a choice to make about the decisions they have to make in their lives: Do they trust, and do they wait, and do they love God; or Do they grasp, and do they strive, and do they rush God?

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Advent: Light

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The prophet Isaiah foretells that the birth of Jesus will be like a light dawning upon a world in deep darkness. In a single moment, all instances of darkness - destroyed. But, if that’s true, why does is so often feel like we are still living in the shadows? In celebration of the first week of advent, let us consider what Jesus’ light is actually like, how it first shows up, and what it is that He comes to do.