This week, as part of More on Mission, we are delighted to welcome back Stephen Tibberts from NTM.  The sermon is entitled God's character and mission, and Stephen will be drawing from Hebrews:1-3 and Psalm 27:3, with Psalm 34 as the reading, showing us two characteristics of God which have a direct impact on missions. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Jesus Christ is worthy of the highest praise. He is worthy of the highest praise for he has purchased people, not animals or angels, but people - people from every tribe, language and nation: A people purchased from sin (Rev 1:5-6), idolatry (Rev 13:7b-8), and God’s wrath (Rev 14:9-11). A people purchased for God - that is to be set free, with a new heart to praise God, especially Christ.  Knowing this drives global mission: Christ has authority over the whole earth  Knowing this drives praise: As those purchased by Christ we can join in the song, "Worthy is the Lamb.”. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

How do we pray for the whole church? We pray big, sweeping, but not insipid prayers - prayers like Paul’s in Ephesians 1v15-23. Paul prays out of the assurance that God is sovereign in the lives of his people, revealing the glory of his grace (v3-14). For that reason (v15), he gives thanks to God (v16), makes intercession to God (v17-19), and offers praise to God (v20-23). This is a prayer that God would enlighten the eyes of our hearts to know the reality of things that are as yet unseen. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Matthew gives us two witness statements - the witness of the soldiers and the witness of the women. Matthew’s question is which one will we believe? The way we answer has huge implications for our witness for Christ (v19), obedience to Christ (v20), and relationship with Christ (v10, 16). When we believe that Christ lives we will witness with courage, obey his teaching, and go to him to receive his grace.  All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Where do we look to find ultimate joy? Joy that will sustain us through suffering. Joy that won’t stop when the holiday ends, or the money runs out, or the game finishes Joy that will last forever. According to the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9-10, true joy, lasting joy, ultimate joy, is found in Jesus. This morning we shall see that Jesus is our king who fills us with joy. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This evening, Pastor Tim concludes the series on how to pray for our church, as he looks at who we are in Christ and how recognising that and understanding it makes a difference to how we live. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week, we shall be continuing our series on praying for the church, as Assistant Pastor Steven brings God's word to us and we hear what God says about maturing together as a church. The sermon is drawn from Ephesians 4 and has the title Praying for maturity As we examine Ephesians 4:11 - 16, we will see that Jesus has provided his church with everything we need to mature in him. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week, we shall be continuing our series on praying for the church, and will see how we can pray for our church to love and serve one another. No matter how well we might be loving one another, there will always be room for improvement. We know that because this side of eternity we still fight against indwelling sin. We haven’t yet seen Christ face to face, and so we are not yet fully like him. The question is, when our relationships are put under pressure, and love is strained, how can we use those times to grow in our love for one another? That’s what we will seek to answer this week as look at the great love song in 1 Corinthians 13v4-7. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Over the next three weeks, we will be looking at what the church is meant to be, and therefore what we can ask God to do among us, as we go beyond just praying for individuals, and learn to pray for the church as a whole. The purpose behind this series is to bring us to see the blessing of belonging to a body, rather than just viewing ourselves as individuals who gather. In this way we seek to be:  a people who give reason for others to be thankful to God for us those who have eyes open to see what God is doing in the life of the church so that we can give thanks. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week we welcome Tim Shenton, who will continue his occasional series in Psalm 46 with a particular focus on vv8-9. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

God is both a God of wrath and mercy. This theme can be traced through the Bible. This message finds its ultimate fulfillment in Christ, where the wrath of Christ is poured out on Christ instead of us, so that God can show mercy to we who are sinners. That's why we are able to pray Habakkuk's prayer in chapter 2v3 for ourselves, our family and friends who don't know Jesus, and a world that is lost. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Every mountain climb begins in the valley. That was true emotionally for Habakkuk.  In his prophecy we find him lamenting in the valley. He is lamenting the sin of his people, and when God tells him what’s going to happen, he laments as he struggles to understand God’s ways. However, by the end of his prophecy we find him in the high place rejoicing in the Lord. Even though judgement is coming on the nation of Israel, even though he can’t understand how a holy God can use evil people to judge his own people … yet he is able to rejoice in the Lord.  What was this path of faith that brought him from the valley to the mountain of praise like? That’s what we shall see this morning. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Jesus' command to his people is to love our enemies and to pray for those who mistreat us. How can we do that, when within our hearts is a God given desire to see justice? Habakkuk helps us understand how this is possible by showing us that God is the one who deals justly with all sin. When we trust him to deal justly with those who sin against us, then it sets us free to forgive others, and pray for them.  All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about destruction, contention, injustice, oppression and violence. Every day we see God’s law being disregarded. Even as believers we grieve over our failure to obey God perfectly. How are we to process our own feelings, hurts, and grief at the evil of suffering and sin? What Habakkuk shows is that because of God’s grace we can be really honest with God, and bring our hurting hearts to him. The more we care about God’s honour and the evil of suffering, the more we will need the language of lament.  All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

God uses evil to accomplish his purpose. This is a great mystery and may leave us, like Habakkuk, disturbed and questioning. (The following three sermons will deal with the questions). But we finally find the answer in cross where the greatest evil accomplished the greatest good - our salvation. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week, we are pleased to welcome Tim Shenton and look forward to hearing God speak through him regarding this psalm. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

What will be our greatest priority this year? What will keep us from envying those who seem to be doing better than us? What will set us free to serve people rather than be served? Psalm 37 helps us answer those questions particularly verse 34 where we are commanded to delight ourselves in the Lord. This week we will be exploring how we will obey this command so that we will be a people delighting in God, to the glory of God, for the good of all people! All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

We have just spent several weeks focusing on the birth of Christ. We do it because the incarnation is amazing. The eternal God adding to his divine nature a human nature. Jesus, fully God and fully man. It is a reason to worship God. But what comes next? In the days after Christmas, how are we to continue worshipping? Luke shows us as he introduces us to one of the Christmas characters, who doesn't find his way into the nativity plays. This morning we shall be introduced to Simeon and explore the salvation he saw before he died. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Welcome to our evening carol service.   All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

At this time of the year we hear a lot about Mary, Joseph, Shepherds, but not much about the wise men. Most of what we think we know about them is based on tradition, and from the carols, but when we look at what scripture actually says we see something very different from the traditions. What we discover is how pagan gentiles hear about Jesus, and come to worship him. What we discover is the glory and grace of God to draw far off people to himself through his Son. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen how Jesus steps into darkness and brings light, and there is no darkness that his light cannot overcome. The next question is what does that look like for us? With the shepherds, we get the answer.  All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Last week we saw from Isaiah 9v1-7 and Matthew 4v12-16 that Jesus steps into darkness and brings light. We concluded that we don’t need to be afraid to ask Jesus to come into our dark places, but we do need to be ready for him to turn our lives upside down. All of that raises a question. Is there any dark place that will ever extinguish the light of Christ? In the opening of his gospel, the apostle John shows us that where Christ shines, the darkness cannot overcome Him. That is good news, and should give us confidence to pursue a relationship with Christ, and experience him overcoming the darkness of our sin, ignorance about God, hostility towards God, and even death itself.  All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This morning we shall be starting to look at Christ’s coming into the world 2000 years ago. It’s what we call the incarnation when God added to his divine nature a human nature so that he was both God and man. The question this morning is what does that mean for us living now? What Isaiah shows us is that Christ meets us in our dark places, and transforms them to become places of light. Rather than places of contempt, they become places of glory. When he does come, what we experience is the glory of God’s presence, the glory of God’s grace and the glory of God’s life. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

As Christians we often set up a tension between Gospel preaching and mercy ministry. However, when we rightly understand the Gospel, we shall see that there is no tension. Isaiah 61 shows us that, ’the servants of Messiah are set free to rebuild what has been destroyed.’ We are set free from sin, death and Satan, and are to use our freedom to reach out with mercy to those who are spiritually and physically broken. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

As part of More on Mission, we are delighted to welcome Stephen Tibberts from NTM this week. We continue on the theme of Gospel Growth, looking at Paul's letter to Timothy, with particular reference to 2 Timothy 4:17: “But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.” All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Social action or Bible teaching? Given the limited amount of time we have, which of these two should the church prioritise if we are going to see growth in God’s kingdom? This morning from Acts 6v1-7 we shall see that the church kept word ministry front and centre. They made the gospel of Jesus Christ the foundation of all social action. The result was church unity, kingdom growth, greater obedience, and mission to the nations. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

We are delighted to welcome Sam Gordon back among us this week. He will be preaching on the necessity of being born again. Although we have covered this recently, clearly the Lord still wants us to understand just how important this truth is, and has sent another voice to remind us. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Life is busy, really busy for many of us. That busyness extends to every area of our lives, from home life to work life, from family to friends. It includes our social lives. Perhaps more importantly, it extends to our church life. How do we serve Christ in our homes, work, schools, church and social circles, in a way that doesn’t lead to burnout? As we compare what Jesus says in Luke 10v38-42 about two very different sisters, Mary and Martha, we shall see the secret to serving without burnout. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

When life throws suffering at us, or temptation arises within us, how are we to respond? Paul responded by living out the life of Christ in him through faith in Christ (Galatians 2:20). But what does that mean? What does that look like in everyday life? We shall see that it means having a Bible savings account, and a Bible conversation with God All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week we are delighted to welcome Tom Wilding back to speak to us from this passage, as we learn how to have the best life! All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

How do you respond when you’re stuck in traffic, or the supermarket queue isn’t going as fast as you would like? If we’re honest, we find ourselves getting impatient. This impatience can show up in various ways. We can be impatient with people, ourselves, or any situation we find ourselves in. We are in an unplanned place, or going at an unplanned pace. However, we are commanded to be patient. In fact it is a fruit of the Spirit dwelling in us. So, how can we experience this fruit of patience growing in our lives? That’s the question we will be answering as we continue to think about living by faith in Christ. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Sometimes the pressures of life can feel like wildfires that sweep through destroying our joy, peace, patience, and leaving us irritable, bitter and confused. Why does that happen, and how do we fight against these wildfires and live joy filled, Christlike lives? That’s what we are going to begin to answer this week as we continue our series on the New Birth. What we will discover is that we need to fight these wildfires with prescribed fires! All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

We are experiencing an explosion in anxiety in our country. God offers us a radical solution - that a proper fear of God replaces our other fears. Such fear is demonstrated by our reverence, respect, awe, confidence, trust, faith and obedience to God. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

What we know with our minds isn’t always a reality in our hearts. As a result we don’t take action. For most of us living in the western world, where there is ease and affluence, we don’t have that daily sense of being in spiritual battle. We know it intellectually but our hearts are slow to catch up. This morning we shall see how the New Birth brings us, not just into conflict with dark forces, but into victory over them. That victory needs to be lived out in our lives through trust in Jesus Christ. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

If we had a been cured of a life threatening disease, we would want to see the test results as evidence that the treatment had worked. Of more importance is to know that we know we have been born again and therefore have eternal life. SO how can we know? What is the evidence that gives us assurance we have been born again? What are the effects of the new birth in our lives? That’s what we will see this week from John’s first letter. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

When you read the Bible you will discover that God is always the first cause of everything. That is obvious in creation. You see it in Israel’s battles. God goes before them, and they can only fight because he goes first. It is also true in salvation. The New Birth is an act of God first (John 3:8). Without this there would be no New Birth. But it is also true that without our response there would be no eternal life, which is what the New Birth is - the life of the eternal God in our souls. This morning we shall see that we need to completely rest in, trust in, Jesus. We shall see also why he is  absolutely trustworthy. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Without being Born Again, no one is able to see or enter God’s kingdom. That is Jesus' devastating news to Nicodemus. Without the New Birth there is no eternal life. Nicodemus doesn’t understand and so Jesus graciously helps him through three illustrations. One of those is an illustration drawn from nature - the wind. Jesus uses this to show how the Holy Spirit works in our lives to bring us to New Life. Join us this week as we explore how the Spirit works, and what that means for us. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

There are many important questions we can ask, but none are as important as the question we will consider this coming Sunday morning. This question, or at least our answer to it, will determine where we will spend eternity. We invite you to join us as we begin looking at John 3, and the beginning of Nicodemus’ journey to saving faith in Jesus. This week we will discover this most important question. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week, we are delighted to welcome Simeon Woodcraft - Pastor at New Milton Evangelical Free Church Following the conclusion of our series on Colossians, he will be bringing us a message from Philemon vv1-7, with the title 'What's in a name?' All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Ask yourself the question: apart from your spouse, with whom can you say that you have a meaningful friendship? Sadly for many in our country, the answer is no one. As Christians, we should be leading examples of deep, meaningful Christ-centred fellowship. At the end of chapter 4, we see how that has been expressed for Paul. 1. Through brotherhood 2. Through co-working 3. Through mutual encouragement All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

What makes the Christian life distinctive? Is it that we go to church? Read the Bible? Tell people about Jesus? However good these things are, actually, there is something else that comes first and should be the defining feature of the Christian life. That something is prayer. In Colossians 4: 2 - 6, Paul reveals why prayer is the primary means of grace for the Christian life. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

The whole of Paul’s letter thus far affects the way we do relationships and how we relate to one another. This week we see the massive implications for family life. Four things stand out for us in this passage: Submission Sincerity Serving Finally - Sacrifice – which holds them all together. Jesus is our perfect example in His sacrificial love for us. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

I could never do that! Last week we looked at putting to death all self-worship, a tough order. If that wasn't enough, Paul now calls us to put on and live out a seemingly impossible life! However we will see that it is not in our strength that we are to do this, but through everything we have in Christ. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Here is a question that has puzzled many a new Christian. If we have this freedom in Christ and fullness in Christ... how come there seem to be so many rules to follow? There seems to be this choice of lawlessness (doing what we want) and Legalism (Thinking what we do gives us God's blessing) Paul, however, shows us that neither of these should take the true form of the Christian. Christians aren't to be lawless or legalist... they are to be worshippers! All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Sam Gordon returns this week to continue our series in Colossians. We discover what freedom in Christ really means. A truly spiritual person is not one who keeps all the rules, but one who has a real heart relationship with Jesus Christ. We are reminded that we need to stay close to Jesus and trust in him alone. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

Sam Gordon is back with us this week to continue our series in Colossians. This section of the letter reminds us that we all need to be vigilant, and, with that in mind, Paul offers us the antidote to false teaching by reminding us that there is: Freedom in Christ Fulness in Christ Forgiveness in Christ Is this your experience in your walk with Christ? All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

This week, we are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Sinkinson, who will be continuing our series in Colossians. The series is called 'Rooted and built up in Christ' and these two verses get to the heart of the matter. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812

We can't take it for granted that what we hold to and rejoice in 'In Christ' isn't in danger of being distorted by the plausible-sounding arguments of the culture around us. Now as much as ever, we need to stand firm, but with many of the traditional churches around us compromising on the Gospel, how can we stand firm? This morning we discover how to stand firm and grow in our love of Christ. All music videos are streamed under our Streaming Plus Licence 1306812