Masterpiece - An Advent Series
This week Iain finished off our Masterpiece series, taking a look across the whole Christmas story and inspiration from Hebrews 12
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 30th November
As we draw near to Christmas Andrew took the opportunity to look at the impact of Josephs actions as a father.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 23rd December
This week at South Site Steve continued the Masterpiece series at our carol service, speaking about the importance of the Magi's journey and response to Jesus.
11:00am South site - Sunday 16th December
This morning Aaron continued our Masterpiece series at our carol service, speaking about the importance of the Magi's journey and response to Jesus.
10:30am City Centre site - Sunday 16th December
In the second part of our Advent series we explored Mary’s journey from anxiety, to acceptance, to adoration.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 9th December
In the second part of our Advent series we explored Mary’s journey from anxiety, to acceptance, to adoration.
11:00am South site - Sunday 9th December
This week we opened our Advent series with all-age Christingle services, looking at how Jesus is the light of the world.
11:00am South site - Sunday 2nd December
This week we opened our Advent series with all-age Christingle services, looking at how Jesus is the light of the world.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 2nd December
As we celebrated together at Big Church our guests Di and Happy Leman shared some of their history and how God moved in their lives to write a different story.
Big Church - Sunday 18th November
Greater Than
On Sunday our guest speaker Rachel Turner had a great time finishing our series in Colossians, looking at how Jesus is greater than our rules.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 11th November
This week Andy shared how we, like the church in Colossae, are influenced by the culture around us, and what it looks like to follow Jesus through that.
11:00am South site - Sunday 4th November
As we continue our series Kat unpacked what it means to have fullness of life when we follow Jesus.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 4th November
This week Jeff challenged us that we can expect some level of suffering in life, but rather than seeking out comfort, we can be open to God's work through it.
11:00am South site - Sunday 21st October
This week Ruth shared about where Jesus is in the midst of our suffering, and how he can use our trials to transform us.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 21st October
As Becky continues our series in Colossians we looked at how Paul is showing the truth of who Jesus is and how He is the God of all things.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 14th October
As Michael continues our series in Colossians we looked at how Paul is showing the truth of who Jesus is and how He is the God of all things.
10:30am City Centre site - Sunday 14th October
Andrew opens up our new sermon series ‘Greater Than’ - a study in Colossians.
11:00am South site - Sunday 7th October
What Would Jesus Undo?
In this series, we’ll go beyond the simple slogans of what it means to follow Christ, and open ourselves up to discover the knots in our lives that Jesus wants to undo, so that we can live an authentic faith.
Steve and Aaron concluded our series by looking at Jesus’ take on spiritual pride using his parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
11:00am South site - Sunday 30th September
Steve and Aaron concluded our series by looking at Jesus’ take on spiritual pride using his parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
11:00am South site - Sunday 30th September
This week Rosie and Andrew talked about hypocrisy being the gap between what we show and who we really are, and how God longs for us to have authentic relationship with Him and with each other.
5:30pm City Centre site - Sunday 16th September
Jon spoke about how Jesus wants connection with us in worship, and challenged us to have worshipping hearts, and express our worship in an authentic overflow from it.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 9th September
This week Adam taught that Jesus came to break down our human religion so that we can truly have relationship with him.
10:30am City Centre Site - Sunday 9th December
Andrew & Rosie launched our new series WWJU, starting with Spiritual Indifference and the challenge of what Jesus would say to those who become lukewarm.
10:30am City Centre Site - Sunday 2nd September
Andrew & Rosie launched our new series WWJU, starting with Spiritual Indifference and the challenge of what Jesus would say to those who become lukewarm.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 2nd September
The Gospel of Luke
During this series, we'll be going through the Gospel of Luke, and how we can learn to live as Jesus did.
Jess looks at the Parable of the Great Banquet, explaining how Jesus has called us to be hospitable and invitational to those around us, to go out and invite them into the Kingdom party.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 19th August
This morning at South site Fred explained how Jesus paid the price so that all people at all times can be saved.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 12th August
This evening Ruth spoke about what Jesus' death and resurrection means for us today.Ruth spoke about what Jesus' death and resurrection means for us today.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 12th August
Becky explains to us how comparison can leave us feeling disqualified, but how we should instead focus on Jesus, and respond to become the people He's calling us to be.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 5th August
Adam continues our series through looking at the lessons we can learn from Jesus' Wonder Women - his female disciples.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 5th August
This Sunday at City Centre Site, Tony explained the story of Luke calling Levi from Luke 5, and challenged us to follow Jesus in His example.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 29th July
At our South Site, Oliver takes us through the story of Jesus calling Zacchaeus, and explained how Jesus continues to call us by name so that we might follow Him.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 29th July
Jeff takes us through Luke 4:14-28, and explains how this applies to our lives. The Holy Spirit is with us, so we can do all that Jesus did.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 15th July
Michael takes us through how we can have an empowered Kingdom lifestyle, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 15th July
As we celebrated 10 baptisms over our 3 services we also started our new series in Luke, looking at Jesus' baptism.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 8th July
The Holy Spirit
In this series, we'll be looking at the third person of the Trinity - the Holy Spirit.
This Sunday Katie finished our series, speaking on how we can partner with the Holy Spirit in His plan for the world.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 1st July
This week we celebrated fathers day (with the obligatory chocolate!) and during our evening service Elaine spoke about God's father heart for us.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 17th June
This week we celebrated fathers day (with the obligatory chocolate!) and Becky spoke about God's father heart for us.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 17th June
At our City Centre site Jess brought a message about the truth, power and transformation that comes when we pray 'Come Holy Spirit'.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 10th June
At South Site Kat also spoke about the truth, power and transformation that comes when we pray 'Come Holy Spirit'.
11:00am South Site - Sunday 10th June
During the evening service our guest speaker Jen Miskov spoke about the work of the Holy Spirit in her life and in revivals in church history.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 3rd June
In the morning Andrew and Rosie spent some time giving an update on what God was doing during their sabbatical.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 3rd June
This Sunday Mike continued our series, looking at the Holy Spirit and it's interaction with us on a personal level.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 20th May
At our South Site Andy continued our series, looking at who the Holy Spirit is.
11:00am South site - Sunday 13th May
This week at City Centre site Aaron continued our series, looking at who the Holy Spirit is.
11:00am City Centre site - Sunday 13th May
On Sunday 6th May our guest speaker Derek Morphew opened up our sermon series. We have no audio recording but Derek's' PowerPoint and small group notes can be found here: Powerpoint & Small Group Questions
Derek referred to how the Vineyard movement began. Click here for a really useful article from the VCUKI website on that topic.
Ephesians
For the next few weeks we'll be taking the time to study the book Ephesians.
In the first week we showed a summary video from The Bible Project, watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y71r-T98E2Q
To finish our series, Adam summarised Paul's letter to the Ephesians and looked more deeply at the full armour of God.
3:30pm Big Church - Sunday 29th April
Becky looked at the images of marriage, family and work that Paul uses to teach about the radically different way that Jesus modelled authority and submission.
11:00am South site - Sunday 15th April
This week at our City Centre site James spoke about the revolutionary opportunity to love and serve each other found in Paul's teaching.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 15th April
On Sunday evening Steve continued our series, looking at how the passage is speaking into a different culture about how to do life with God. You can find the handout that he references here.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 8th April
In the morning service at our City Centre site, Michael looked at this weeks passage in Ephesians in the light of God's design for living life.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 8th April
Today Andy & Jess both preached on Ephesians 4, looking at how we're called to grow in unity, diversity and maturity.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 18th March
Today Andy & Jess both preached on Ephesians 4, looking at how we're called to grow in unity, diversity and maturity.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 18th March
As Aaron looks at Ephesians 2 & 3 he breaks it down into three concepts, becoming alive, becoming united and becoming rooted.
11:00am South - Sunday 11th March
Tony also looked at Ephesians 2 & 3 this week and splits it into 3 sections: 'Amazing grace', 'Tearing down walls' and 'The power of love'.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 11th March
This week Adam introduced our series in Ephesians and started by looking at what Paul says about the blessings we have in Christ.
5:30pm City - Sunday 4th March
Doing Life Well
We kick the year off with this new sermon series on Doing Life Well. We'll explore what it means to live a balanced life according to Jesus.
This week Michael concluded our series, looking at Jesus as an example of how to live an emotionally and relationally mature life.
5:30pm City - Sunday 18th February
In our society with productivity and busyness being highly valued, how do we follow the longest commandment that God gave us, to have a day of rest?
11:00am South - Sunday 11th February
This week Andrew spoke about the importance of building both work and rest into the rhythm of our lives, then he took some time to explain the sabbatical that he and Rosie are embarking on.
5:30pm City - Sunday 4th February
This morning Jeff shared with us on the topic of suffering, looking at both the tension and the growth in those moments, whilst sharing from his personal experiences.
11:00am South - Sunday 21st January
At the City Centre site our guest speaker Rick shared a message on how we are called to be aware of the things that are holding us back and claim the freedom that Jesus won for us.
10:30am City Centre - Sunday 21st January
Continuing our series, Steve thought about the power of family, the words of Jesus and the story of Joseph, all whilst looking at how our past affects our present.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 14th January
This week Andrew and Rosie introduced our series and looked at the story of Saul in 1 Samuel 15.
5:30pm City Centre - Sunday 7th January