In our fourth and final podcast we explore the common metaphor used by New Testament writers of the church as a family. What kind of family is the church meant to be? How did the New Testament writers understand family? And how does this reshape our view of church today? You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ materialhere. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
In the third podcast of our Following Jesus Together series we take a look at the Temple and a body as metaphors for the church. Where does the presence of God dwell now that Christ has come? How do we find our place and purpose as a Christian? And how does the church become both united and diverse? You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
Jesus and Addiction part 1: Facing up to Addiction delivered by Tim Murray at our Sunday service 10th July 2022. On Sunday we started a two part series on addiction. This is an important topic for us to consider in following Jesus. We looked at facing up to addiction, its power but also the great hope we have in Jesus in dealing with this. Join us next week to hear part 2. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
The Parable of the Growing Seed from our Sunday service 3rd July 2022. This Sunday Tim Barton spoke on the parable of the growing seed, from Mark 4:26-29, continuing our Jesus series. You can see The Muppets video that Tim references here All our latest Whole Church Teaching material is accessible here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
In our second podcast we look together at the metaphor of the church as ‘The people of God’. What does this mean for how we see our identity as Christians? And how does the local church help us maintain this identity? You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
In this first podcast Tim B introduces why we’re looking at the topic of the local church. We take a look at the word we translate as church in the New Testament, and then begin to look at how our understanding of church shapes the way we engage in it. You can find all our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ materialhere. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Like A Mustard Seed from our Sunday service 26th June 2022. This Sunday we were delighted to welcome guest speaker Martin Young. Martin has been senior leader of Rising Brook church in Stafford for over 20 years. He continued our Jesus series by speaking on the parable of the mustard seed and the kingdom of God. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Mike Crook started our new series, focusing on the person of Jesus, by speaking on John 21 at our Sunday service 19th June 2022. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Why Worship? from our Sunday service 12th June 2022. This week we looked at worship, opening the subject up and considering what worship is. Vanessa interviewed two people, Franky and Sophie, who often lead worship at ACC. They spoke on the role of sung worship in our corporate gatherings and worship as a lifestyle, how our whole lives should be surrendered to God as an act of worship. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Technology and the war on reality part 2 from our Sunday service 29th May 2022. In its fullest sense Jesus' resurrection is about the re-humanisation of the dehumanised. The issue we face with technology is it is largely de-humanising. This Sunday Adrian talked more practically about its impact and offered some ways we can protect our humanity. If you missed part 1, you can listen here. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website