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In chapter four of our Ephesians series, Paul shifts from his effusive praise of all that Christ has done for us, to a challenging invitation: “I…beg you to lead a live worthy of your calling.” It is an invitation that is only possible through the glory and the grace of the one who now indwells us!

Sam shows a short clip from this video during his talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y71r-T98E2Q

Our world badly needs peace. Paul tells us that Christ is our peace, that Christ is the peace-maker. What is peace exactly? And how are we to ally with God in his peace-making ways? In this talk in our Wide Awake series, we are exploring the idea of remembering as the first step on the path of peace. We look at Ephesians 2 and 3.

Paul reminds us that we were spiritually dead, but God, because of His great love and mercy, has made us alive with Christ. Listen this week as we ask: Are we living from grace, or still trying to earn it? We are looking at Ephesians 2:1-10 (NIV).

Ephesians invites us to wake up to the wonder of what God has done in Jesus - and to allow that reality to reshape who we are, how we live, and what we carry into the world. As we become increasingly awake to God’s grace, love and presence, our lives begin to carry the fragrance of Christ. This new series invites us into a faith that doesn't simply inform us but awakens us - a faith that can't help but share what God has done in Jesus.

Matt shares a video during his talk on how we have been spending our time over the years, you can view it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzzGtlG-zU And at the end of his talk he shares a song, you can listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6kbzYPAHgUIM1pT6lDs3Gc

Listen in as we close out our Teach Us to Pray series and focus on what it means to live in hope and what prayerful spiritual warfare looks like for us in our everyday lives.

We continue our Teach Us to Pray series by exploring the real and challenging experience of navigating prayer when God is silent, and what He might be doing in these seasons.

Lamentations 3: 1-2, 7-9, 21-29

We continue our Teach Us to Pray series by exploring the very real and often challenging experience of unanswered prayer. Together we'll look at how we can trust God when prayers seem delayed, unanswered, or difficult to understand. 

The video shown can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/8a0CWQrL060?si=q70OwF4_hCdoRKjK - from 3:45 through to 5:23.

We continue our Teach Us to Pray series, exploring the theme of adoration and how praying to 'Our Father' is a vital part of prayer.

The video shown during the talk was from 24/7's The Prayer Course, Session 2 on Adoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boklkec7NLE&t=5s

We are continuing our Teach Us to Pray series by exploring petition and intercession. We'll be looking at how prayer is about participating with God in His purposes to bring His Kingdom on Earth as it is in heaven.

The first video that Rose showed can be watched here, she showed the first two minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiPbzx55ajM&t=150s

The song played at the end of Rose's talk can be listened to here: https://open.spotify.com/track/00328QIiNqYRV1eBzis8vI

We're starting a new series, Teach Us To Pray. Over the next few weeks, we'll look at some of the rhythms of prayer and how to persist when heaven feels silent. This week, we're exploring Luke 11:1-13 and Ephesians 6:18, and laying the foundations for the series. Here's a link to the video shown: https://prayercourse.org/session/why-pray/

With this talk we finish up our series, Name Above All Names. We look at the names 'Alpha and Omega', exploring the idea that God is in control of all things from beginning to end. What does it mean for us living between those times? 

We continue our series, Name Above All Names, looking at some of the names for God in the Bible. This week, we will be looking at Adonai, which is Hebrew for 'Lord' or 'Master'. We'll focus on what that might mean for us today.

We continue our Name Above All Names series, looking at some of the names for God in the Bible. This week, we explore El-Roi - The God Who Sees - a name for God that hugely impacts our relationship with and following of Jesus today.

Matt showed a video clip from The Chosen - The Woman at the Well, here is the extended video. Matt showed a short clip from 4:41-6.58 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordhsDeAt60

We continue our Name Above All Names series, looking at some of the names for God in the Bible. In this talk we'll be looking at the names El Shaddai and Jehovah Jireh, two covenantal names we find in Genesis within a few chapters of each other. 

We continue our current series, Name Above All Names, looking at some of the names for God in the Bible. This week, we will look at The Good Shepherd, an image that’s all through scripture, yet what does it mean for us today?

Lilian Dodza is the Regional Vice President and Regional Director at World Vision East Africa, and currently worships at Nairobi Chapel in Kenya. We're excited to have Lilian share some of her story and how we might join with the wider church in looking beyond our own circles, out into the world. 

We kick off our new series, Name Above All Names, looking at God's name 'I AM'.

Before the wind. Before the fire. Before the languages. There was waiting... Listen as we unpack who is the Holy Spirit and what does the Spirit do? We’ll ground ourselves in Acts 2 — not just to understand what happened then, but to ask: How might this speak into our lives now?

As we continue our series, we'll be looking at the power of confession and how to live a life of wholeness and transformation. 

In this talk, we turn to the Letter to the Hebrews. We look at what is tells us about who we are and where we find ourselves, and ask what it looks like to run the race with perseverance, despite difficulties. The passage (Heb 12:1-14 ESV) also offers encouragement and hope, as well as honesty, as we reflect on what this means for our lives.

As we continue our new series, we'll be looking at how we can bring all parts of ourselves into the healing presence of God.

How can we live more fully into the Resurrection story? By allowing the Spirit to transform every aspect of our lives - mind, body, soul and spirit. In this post-Easter series, we will be asking God to heal and renew us so that our lives might bring glory to His name, living out the Easter story with every fibre of our being and letting the resurrection seep into every area of our lives.

We are reflecting on our post-Easter season and suggesting that the resurrection often matters most in times of chaos and confusion. 

Christ is Risen!

This week is Palm Sunday, the day we celebrate Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. In this talk, we explore what Palm Sunday means to us.

This week, our Lenten journey explores the theme of humility. In a world where our popularity feels graded by the size of our platform and reach, the example of Jesus shows a different truth at the heart of the universe. 

This Sunday, we continue our Lent journey with the Desert Fathers and Mothers, exploring a counter-intuitive truth: that true wisdom can often look like foolishness to the world. Join us as we consider what it truly means to build our lives on the rock and what that means for church life today.

This Sunday, we will continue our Desert Mothers and Fathers series. We will explore the wilderness as a place of self-denial and unpack the dangers of materialism by focusing on the heavenly treasure Jesus talked about in his most famous sermon.

We continue our Lenten journey using Lectio 365 and 24/7 Prayer’s Desert Mothers and Fathers series. We’ll reflect on the practices of silence and solitude - exploring their relevance for our lives today, along with both the challenges they present and the fruit they can bear.

We join together with other churches around the world for the Lectio 365 and 24-7 Prayer's Desert Mothers and Fathers Lent series. The next forty days of Lent are a time to enter the wilderness with Christ, to push into prayer and deepen our spiritual formation. This talk is an intro to this six-week series leading up to Easter.

You can watch the Desert Mothers and Fathers - Wisdom in the Desert video here: https://youtu.be/Q2jyB7fJoRk

This week we wrap up our 'Songs of the Times' series with one final song. We will be looking at the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15 and how we find our way home.

You can listen to Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill here: spotify.com/album/5YnGwVQx2OQ4CpcQeVDthP

We also watch Phil Wickham's Homesick for Heaven here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLDMAswKf8

We're taking a look at another contemporary song that gets us thinking about the routines of everyday life. We'll explore what it has to say about how we see our work and whether we're really living with purpose. You can watch the Sabrina Carpenter music video of Thumbs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVUl0cAKpo

Jesus told His followers to pay attention to the signs of the times — to notice what was happening beneath the surface of culture. Today, one of the clearest signs of the times isn’t found in headlines; it’s found in our playlists. We’re beginning a new series called Songs of the Times. Each week, we’ll take a modern, secular song that’s resonating in our wider culture and ask what our songs say about us and what the gospel might say back. This week's talk explores Alex Warren's song, Ordinary. You can watch the Ordinary by Alex Warren music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ah9tWTkmk&list=RDu2ah9tWTkmk&start_radio=1 and at the end of Matt's talk he plays Tenth Avenue North's song, Control - here is the Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/0pAPFaE1Iwfvex9EVJuQlG

For our first service of 2026, we take a look at the astonishing outcome when a bunch of fishermen invite Jesus onto their boat.

Listen in as we continue our Unexpected series in the lead up to Christmas.

We'll be unpacking Luke 1:26-38, where the angel Gabriel shockingly announces to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus. We'll be asking what it looks like for the 'Holy' to break into our lives.

Join us as we land our series on The Unhurried Heart. In this final talk, we look at the Great Commandment to love God and neighbour, exploring how we can make it a reality in our lives. 

The Unhurried Heart series continues as we explore the challenges of navigating grief and loss.

The Unhurried Heart series continues as we look to enrich our faith and our lives through contemplative practices. 

The Unhurried Heart series continues as we take a look at the importance of learning to live within limits in a world of hurry. 

The Unhurried Heart series continues as we take a look at how our past experiences shape our discipleship, and how the Holy Spirit wants to meet us with his love in our places of pain. 

The Unhurried Heart series continues as we take a look at knowing ourselves so that we may know God.

We are launching our new series The Unhurried Heart: Bringing our Inner World to God. Join us as we explore the vital connection between emotional and spiritual maturity and invite God to work within us.

Andrew Shamy is joining us as we wrap up this Season of Creation. In the face of our ecological crisis, many of us live with a deep sense of grief and fear. Yet as Christians, we are also called to a life of hope. How do we hold these together? 

Jess looks at what it means to be strong as a follower of Christ: in today's culture, in the context of our human weaknesses, and in reference to Paul's summary in 2 Corinthians 12.

Julia explores the themes of humility and pride, and how they impact our faith, relationships, and everyday lives.

This talk unpacks our church vision in light of wrapping up the Dear Church: Seven Letters to Seven Churches series.

With this talk, we wrap up our Dear Church series. We end up in Laodicea, in Revelation 3:14-22, the lukewarm church. We'll unpack what Jesus said to them and how we might guard against that in our own lives. 

We continue our Dear Church series, looking at the letter to the church in Philadelphia. It's a wonderful word of encouragement, spoken to a people who had stayed faithful through thick and thin. We'll take a look at Christ's promise to them, and what that might mean for us.