In this series we seek to respond to the thought that has inspired these changes and has shaped the world that we now face. We will explore and critique our culture, helping us to understand how we have arrived at this juncture and why we are increasingly asked to live in unreality.
Over 100 years of history. Thousands of Christians. One formational journey. In this Whole Church Teaching series we take time to explore the journey of our church family. How did we get to where we are today? What has happened over the years as we have journeyed together as a church? What highs and lows...
How do we define what the Christian faith is? This (seemingly simple) question is both very important and also potentially tricky to answer. We know that its about following Jesus, but who is Jesus? And we know it is about being reconciled to God, but who is God? What do we have to believe for...
Growing up as a Christian I often heard people refer to the ‘church.’ In my early days I never stopped to think about what people meant when they used this word. I would hear things like; “I left my bag in the church”, “I love going to church”, “I’ve been really hurt by the church”....
Suffering is a brute fact of life. If we live long enough, we will suffer. If we live long enough, we will know people who face severe suffering. How do we come to terms with this as Christians? After all, is not the existence of suffering often taken as a reason to doubt God’s goodness,...
Our Christmas whole church teaching series explores the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Dave Hadley
We would encourage you to journey and engage with this teaching as we think it might be important for our image of God and the way that we live. Tim Murray
The culture that we live in plays a major role in shaping how we see the world, so what happens when we live in a post-Christian culture? Throughout the last two thousand years Christians have more often than not found themselves at odds with the culture in which they live, and yet the Gospel of...
The Christian life is described as a life of ongoing change, where we are transformed “from glory to glory” (2 Cor 3.18) until Christ is formed in us (Gal 4.19). However, if we’ve been following Jesus for any serious length of time, we know that change can sometimes be very difficult. Many of us have...
Vision Update 2021 – Where are we going and how do we get there? Throughout January and February 2021 our eldership shared an update on where we are heading as a church family. In order to do this we used our ‘Whole Church Teaching’ slot to take time to listen, think and pray together about...
In our December Whole Church Teaching Tim Barton leads us through a reflection on the birth of Christ that will fill us with hope. The birth of Christ reminds us that God always fulfils His promises, that all things are possible and that God has not given up on humanity. As we reflect once again...
November Kingdom Living : God and BeautyGod is infinitely beautiful and every experience we have of beauty not only speaks of him, but is a manifestation of his infinite beauty. Our experience of beauty is an ache of desire which draws our hearts deeper, beyond the beautiful thing into the infinite beauty of God. I...