Your battle to build

This year has been one of pressure. If you haven’t faced any yet then consider yourself blessed. Most people I know have been facing some serious challenges. As a church, even last year as we were gathering and praying as elders, we felt calling us to enlarge and expand with an opposite spirit to the [...]

Brought, Built, Becoming: Your place in God’s plan

I preached in our West congregation last Sunday as part of our “Letter to London” series, were we’re stepping through the book of Ephesians. Sunday we looked at Ephesians 2:11-32 and how God’s plan is to: Bring us near – to him AND to one another Build us together so that we Become something amazing [...]

From Ephesus to London to the World

Last Sunday we started our new series at church, entitled “Letter to London”. We’re going to be reading through the book of Ephesians and looking at a section a week until we get to the end. I have a great sense of expectancy as we discover rich truth, wisdom, and increased faith. If you’re interested [...]

True Stories and Changed Lives

I like a good story, but nothing excites me more than hearing true stories about lives that have been changed by God. It seems as church we’ve been hearing more and more stories lately of lives that have been changed in a powerful way: Healed, saved, delivered, turned around, needs met. Maybe God’s doing more. [...]

The Church that God Wants

“Christ loved the church, and gave himself up for her”  – Ephesians 5:25 Recently I’ve been spending some time walking around our local community and talking to God (otherwise known as prayer-walking). As I’ve been doing this, there’s been one recurring prayer that has been arising from my heart over and over again, and it’s this: [...]

Fasting – what’s it all about?

Incidentally, I mentioned fasting in my last post. If you haven’t already checked it out, hop on over to Wolfi’s blog to follow a great series he’s currently doing on fasting.

Successful or Fruitful?

As a church, particularly in our connect groups, we talk about aiming to create a ‘Fruitful Christian Community’. It’s not necessarily the term we use with first-time guests (as it can sound a bit weird and requires some definition) but that’s what we’re trying to achieve. Basically, we’re talking about the church being the church. Not [...]

Carry the light

I preached last Sunday in our West Congregation on ‘Shine like the Stars’, taken from Matthew 5:14-16 (You are the light of the world…..) and Philippians 2:12-16 (…in which you shine like stars in the universe). If you’re interested you can listen here, or you can read some thoughts I blogged on this a little [...]

New blogs

I just thought I’d highlight 2 new blogs from our church which have just come online: Wolfi’s View is a new blog by Wolfi (my pastor, and the senior pastor of our church). He is a great man, a great friend, and someone God has used as a major influence in my life. Definitely add this one to your [...]