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Amblecote Community ChurchBuild Your Kingdom HereOn Sunday 8th May 2022 Tim Barton and Vanessa led us through an opportunity to consider together the last two years and what God is saying to us here at Amblecote Christian Centre. We reflected, took stock of where we are now and looked to the future.
We believe that God is building his Kingdom here.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
2022-05-0927 min
Amblecote Community Church1 John 2:29-3:18 - Tim Murray1 John 2:29-3:18 message by Tim Murray from our online service Sunday 9th August 2020.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song).
2020-08-1119 minAmblecote Community Church1 John 2:18-28 - Tim Murray1 John 2:18-28 message from our online service Sunday 3rd August 2020.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website.
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song).
2020-08-0327 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and Community - Podcast 2If community and fellowship were such a big part of the early church then why is it that our experience of church is so often not like this today? What are the barriers that are stopping community forming amongst us? And what practical steps can we take towards living in a more Kingdom community way? Join Tim in the second of a two part teaching on God and community.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Music by The Sense, Youth for...
2020-08-0342 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and Community - Podcast 1In our first podcast on Kingdom Living : God and Community Tim explores what kind of community the life, death and resurrection of Jesus birthed in the early church. He also looks at why community is so important for Kingdom living, and challenges us to re-imagine what might be possible for us today.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song).
2020-08-0336 minAmblecote Community ChurchMaking the Word of God the Foundation for Daily Living - Phil CookMaking the Word of God the Foundation for Daily Living from our online service 26th July 2020.
Phil shares from the Bible and from his own experience, about the importance of reading the Bible daily and making it the foundation for how we live our lives.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/w...
2020-07-2719 minAmblecote Community ChurchJob - Andrew WhiteA message shared by Andrew White, on the book of Job, from our online service Sunday 19th July 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-07-2020 minAmblecote Community ChurchRuth - Roxy SmithMessage about the Book of Ruth from our online service Sunday 12th July 2020.
Listen as Roxy primarily asks the question 'What is the role of God?' and learn as she reveals some of her findings!
You check out the Bible Project overview of Ruth video that Roxy mentions here: https://youtu.be/0h1eoBeR4Jk
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by Th...
2020-07-1316 minAmblecote Community ChurchMissional Living - Hugh Shepheard-WalwynMissional Living from our online service Sunday 5th July 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-07-0725 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and a Public Hope – How then should we live? (podcast 3)How then should we live - a public hope in practice.
Last month we launched our ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we’ll be teaching into different aspects of Kingdom Living through podcasts, articles, vlogs and discussions. In July Tim Murray is teaching about Kingdom Living: God and a Public Hope.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.yo...
2020-07-0128 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and a Public Hope - Podcast 2A redemptive worldview - a theology for public hope.
Last month we launched our ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we’ll be teaching into different aspects of Kingdom Living through podcasts, articles, vlogs and discussions. In July Tim Murray is teaching about Kingdom Living: God and a Public Hope.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
2020-07-0138 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and a Public Hope - Podcast 1Faith in the public square - struggling for a public hope.
Last month we launched our ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we'll be teaching into different aspects of Kingdom Living through podcasts, articles, vlogs and discussions. In July Tim Murray is teaching about Kingdom Living: God and a Public Hope.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtub...
2020-07-0141 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 14 - Vanessa Willmott1 Samuel 14 message from our online service, Sunday 28th June 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-3018 minAmblecote Community Church1 John 2 - Dave Hadley1 John 2 message from our online service Sunday 21st June 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-2416 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and Rest - Sabbath Part 3This month we launched our first ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we will teach into different aspects of Kingdom Living, in June, Adrian is teaching about Kingdom Living: God and Rest.
In this episode Adrian shares some practical ways of making Sabbath a reality.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FG...
2020-06-1819 minAmblecote Community Church1 John 1:5-10 - Tim Murray1 John 1:5-10 message from our online service, 14th June 2020.
Tim Murray shares some reflections on these verses from 1 John.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-1527 minAmblecote Community ChurchFriendship - with Jon BrownMany of you will remember Jon Brown who spoke on Singleness in our Made for Love series last Autumn. Many said how helpful they found it, and his podcast on ‘Sex and Singleness’ is one of our most-listened to podcasts ever! So we asked Jon to record another podcast with us about ‘Friendship’, a theme he repeatedly addressed last Autumn. In this podcast, Tim Murray talks again with Jon to address the following questions and more: How can we experience intimacy in non-romantic relationships? How has our culture skewed the idea of friendship? Why do so few of us ‘find’ deep...
2020-06-1258 minAmblecote Community ChurchRomans 12 - Ste CookRomans 12 message from our online service, Sunday 7th June 2020.
Ste Cook shares some of what God has revealed to him through this passage recently.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-1024 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and Rest - Sabbath Part 2This month we launched our first ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we will teach into different aspects of Kingdom Living, in June, Adrian is teaching about Kingdom Living: God and Rest.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-0434 minAmblecote Community Church1 John 1:1-4 - Tim Murray1 John 1:1-4 message from our online service 31st May 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-06-0314 minAmblecote Community ChurchKingdom Living: God and Rest - Sabbath Part 1This month we launch our first ‘whole church teaching’ series called Kingdom Living. Over the coming months we will teach into different aspects of Kingdom Living through podcasts, articles, vlogs and discussions. Our first topic will run through the month of June where Adrian will teach about Kingdom Living: God and Rest.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw...
2020-06-0223 minAmblecote Community ChurchLeaving Egypt: What about church?In this episode of Leaving Egypt Tim Murray and Tim Barton discuss the impact of the current pandemic on the church. What impact has not being able to meet up physically had on how we do church, and is there an opportunity God is giving us to rethink what church is really all about.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
2020-05-2942 minAmblecote Community ChurchFinding Life In Lockdown Part 3 – Tim BartonFinding Life In Lockdown Part 3 from our online service, Sunday 17th May 2020.
Psalm 46
How stillness allows us and encourages us to turn to God as our source and how it reminds us and comforts us that He is in fact with us.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
2020-05-1825 minAmblecote Community ChurchLeaving Egypt - Leaving HomeOur podcast series ‘Leaving Egypt’ explores what God may be saying in this unprecedented season. Over the weeks we will discuss how we can respond both as individuals and as the church, and how the story of God’s people leaving Egypt in the Exodus may help us navigate these times.
Listen to Tim Murray and Tim Fellows in this episode.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018...
2020-05-1244 minAmblecote Community ChurchFinding Life In Lockdown Part 2 - Tim BartonFinding Life In Lockdown Part 2 from our online service, Sunday 10th May 2020.
Psalm 46
How stillness allows us to get the right perspective on things.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-05-1124 minAmblecote Community ChurchFinding Life In Lockdown Part 1 - Tim BartonFinding Life In Lockdown from Sunday 3rd May 2020.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-05-0616 minAmblecote Community ChurchLeaving Egypt - A Time Of Shaking And OpportunityOur podcast series 'Leaving Egypt' explores what God may be saying in this unprecedented season. Over the weeks we will discuss how we can respond both as individuals and as the church, and how the story of God's people leaving Egypt in the Exodus may help us navigate these times.
In this episode, Tim and Adrian discuss how this season is a time of shaking but also a time of opportunity.
For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
2020-05-0139 minAmblecote Community ChurchEaster Message - Tim BartonEaster message by Tim Barton from our online service Sunday 12th April 2020.
Tim reflects on the current situation in the UK and talks about the resurrection of Jesus.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk
Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).
2020-04-1517 minAmblecote Community ChurchChurch Family Update - Thursday 19th MarchIn response to the current pandemic we have been live streaming, looking together at how we respond as a church family. Listen to Tim and Tim's update and what we're doing in the next few weeks.
Here is Tim Barton's message on Psalm 46 that gets referenced: https://www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk/podcasts/confidence-in-troubled-times-by-tim-barton/
2020-03-2632 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving Missional Lives - Reaching Out In Overseas MissionReaching Out In Overseas Mission Interview from our Sunday service 15th March 2020.
Back in January we sent Dave Hadley and Natalie Start to Kissumu, Kenya, to spend some time with a number of missionaries sharing the life, love and gospel of Jesus with the people of Kissumu. This Sunday we'll hear about what they experienced whilst there. We will also hear from Greg Plunkett, who has been a missionary in Kenya for a number of years.
As we listen to the testimonies of those working in overseas mission may we be reminded and encouraged that...
2020-03-1639 minAmblecote Community ChurchWhat does it mean to be free? - James Henderson and Debbie HuxtonWhat does it mean to be free? sermon from our Sunday service 8th March 2020, with visiting speakers from Transforming Communities together.
Exploring the theme of Modern Slavery in the Black Country through the lens of Paul's writing in Galatians 5:1 - 'It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.' What does it mean for followers of Jesus to find freedom in Him?
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we a...
2020-03-0936 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 12-13 - Dave Hadley1 Samuel 12-13 sermon from our Sunday service 1st March 2020.
The speech the Israelites were not expecting and the leader who failed to listen. What does this tell us about God and His Kingdom? We know that the Kingdom of God was not revealed until Christ, but the story of God longing to be close to humanity and innovating new means and forms of grace can still inspire us today.
We hope that you are blessed by this teaching. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please...
2020-03-0236 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 9-11 - Tim MurrayGod continues to work out His gracious purposes for His people even in the midst of the damage they have chosen. We see this through 1 Samuel 9-11 as Saul becomes king - although Israel is in a terrible state and they are walking down a road that leads to slavery, God remains the extravagantly gracious God who offers hope and redemption.
2020-02-2446 minAmblecote Community ChurchThe Places God Speaks with Tim BartonLast month Tim Barton spoke on the call of Samuel. In this podcast he follows up on some of the ideas from that sermon about the places God is particularly present to speak to His people.
2020-02-2122 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 8 - Adrian LoweContinuing our series in the book of 1 Samuel, this week we took some time to hear what God has to say to us through 1 Samuel chapter 8. We read of Israel’s rejection of God as their King. For the sake of power and influence they abandon their call to be unique and different to the surrounding world and demand a king just like all the other surrounding nations. The prophet warns them of the troubles they will face as a consequence of their insistence on adopting a pagan order of government – ultimately they will lose the freedom that their forbe...
2020-02-1751 minAmblecote Community ChurchMade for Love: Sex before MarriageIn this podcast, Tim and Tim discuss why sex before marriage matters and what the Bible has to say about it.
2020-02-1437 minAmblecote Community ChurchPsalm 84 - Tim MurrayThere are many reasons we can come to church or be drawn to Christian faith. Our journeys are often long and complicated. We all have a story. Spiritual experience similarly starts in many different ways: most of us begin by wanting something from God, but this Psalm gets to the heart of true spiritual experience and true Christianity.
2020-02-1035 minAmblecote Community ChurchYEAR OUTACC and Chawn Hill are partnering to launch a year out for young adults that will serve the church across Dudley and the Black Country. In this podcast Greg Ellis and Tim Murray discuss what this year out is all about.
2020-02-0726 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 5-7 - Tim MurrayThe continuing story of The Ark!
Last week we heard about the lessons Israel needed to learn, this week we hear about the lessons the Philistines were taught. The truth is, God is no-one's captive and He acts freely to fulfill His purposes - this week we see how.
2020-02-0337 minAmblecote Community ChurchMade For Love: Sex and Marriage – Some Practical QuestionsIn this podcast, Tim and Jo Murray consider how we grow and change in our marital sexual relationship, as well as addressing some practical questions.
2020-01-3137 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 4 - Rob CooperThis week we had a guest speaker, Rob Cooper, a local minister who has spoken at ACC before.
2020-01-2732 min2020-01-2029 minAmblecote Community Church1 Samuel 1 & 2 - Tim BartonTim Barton kicks off our new series looking at the book of 1 Samuel
2020-01-1339 minAmblecote Community ChurchBaptism Service Message 05/01/2020Tim Murray's message from our baptism service at the beginning of the year
2020-01-1317 min2019-12-2037 min2019-12-1621 min2019-12-0931 minAmblecote Community ChurchA King Is Born: Mighty God by Andrew McFaulOn Sunday 1st December, our Christmas series looking at the names prophesied about Jesus in Isaiah 9:6, continued.
2019-12-0225 min2019-11-2933 min2019-11-1844 minAmblecote Community ChurchConfidence In Troubled Times by Tim BartonOn Remembrance Sunday 2019 Tim talks about Psalm 46 and having confidence in knowing God is with us during troubled times.
2019-11-1133 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving a Missional Life with Ben WildmanSunday 03/11/19
Tim Murray asks visiting speaker, Ben Wildman, some questions about how he lives his life in a missional way and how we can do the same.
2019-11-0441 minAmblecote Community ChurchMade for Love: Dating and Marrying Non-ChristiansIn this podcast Tim B and Tim M discuss the question of whether or not God's design for relationships includes the possibility of dating or marrying non-Christians.
2019-10-2847 minAmblecote Community ChurchMade for Love - so what now?Tim Murray and Adrian Lowe both share on the last week of our teaching series on being Made for Love, discovering God's design for relationships.
2019-10-2846 minAmblecote Community ChurchParenting by Tim Murray 'Made for Love' seriesSunday 20th October, Tim Murray brings the penultimate message in our 'Made for Love' series.
2019-10-2141 minAmblecote Community ChurchSex and Singleness - Jon Brown and Tim MurrayJon Brown, our visiting speaker from 13th October, discusses the difficult questions of sex and singleness, whilst also taking time to dig a bit deeper into some of the themes he spoke about in his sermon.
2019-10-1457 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving Single by Jon BrownSunday sermon 13/10/19 by visiting speaker, Jon Brown.
2019-10-1442 minAmblecote Community ChurchMarriage - Holiness and Happiness with Tim & TimThis podcast follows up Tim Murray's sermon on marriage, answering some questions that have been texted in and going deeper in discussing the purpose of marriage.
2019-10-0728 min
Amblecote Community ChurchMarriage and Sex part 2 by Tim Murray ‘Made for love series’Tim Murray brings part 2 of 'Marriage and Sex' in our Made for Love series.
2019-10-0753 min2019-09-3028 minAmblecote Community ChurchDedication Service Message by Andrew McFaulThis Sunday we celebrated the dedication of Grace Lowe and Reuben Cook. As part of the service the parents dedicated these wonderful children to the Lord.
The Bible teaches us that each life is a precious gift from God. God did not have to create humanity but chose, in His love, to do so.
As David says in the Psalms;
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:13-14)
Each and every one of...
2019-09-2312 minAmblecote Community ChurchBeing Made and Making Yourself – A Biblical Vision of Gender by Adrian Lowe 'Made for Love series'This podcast follows on from Adrian’s sermon on gender, probing a bit deeper on what difference the biblical vision makes for our individual lives. How does it affect us whether we’re made or have to make ourselves? How does this tie in with following Jesus?
2019-09-2031 min
Amblecote Community ChurchMarriage and Sex by Tim Murray 'Made for love series'It was not good for man to be alone, so says Genesis, thus woman was created, they were married and ‘knew’ each other (which means sex!). So establishes God the pattern to underlie human society ever since – the marriage of a man and a woman into an exclusive one-flesh union from which children a born and society built.
God, being an incredibly creative and loving God, determined that the very act that defines a marriage and conceives children is also one of humanities greatest pleasures – sex! In the unique emotional and physical intimacy and pleasure of sex, new life is con...
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Amblecote Community ChurchGender by Adrian Lowe ' Made for love series'Genesis 1.27 says this: “God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Our gender is a gift of God in his good creation, which is part of what it means to reflect the image of God. Yet our culture is seeking to erode the difference between male and female, promoting gender fluidity and choice. Rather than receiving the gift of a gendered existence, we are seeking to define our own gender, or do away with the definition all together. God has bounded us in gender and we seek to era...
2019-09-0953 min
Amblecote Community ChurchA Christian Vision for Relationships ' Made for love series'The Christian confession is that “God is Love” (1 John 4.8). Love is the defining characteristic of the triune God – he is not a God that exists alone, but is always three persons in a never ending relationships of giving and receiving of perfect love within the godhead. For this reason, love stands at the centre of what it means to be humans, created in his image: the love-defined and defining God. We know this experientially – when we share in a true expression of love, we feel most alive. Is it any wonder that the vast majority of human expression captured in culture has b...
2019-09-0240 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving our Faith at Work 18/09/19What does the Bible say about living our faith at work? Stats show that many of us spend a quarter of our time at work. (Perhaps for some it may be much more than this!) How does our faith affect our work? How do we live out our faith when we’re digging a road, doing a spreadsheet or looking after 30 challenging kids! And what does the Bible actually say about this?
This Sunday we’ll look together at what Paul’s letter to the Ephesians teaches us about living our faith at work.
Our services wil...
2019-08-1935 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving Our Faith Online Living in a digitally connected world has dramatically changed the way we live. Never before have we been so instantly connected with people, places, entertainment, news and information. But how does this affect the way we live out our faith? This Sunday we’ll look at how the online world affects our lives, and how we can live out our faith online.
2019-08-1240 minAmblecote Community ChurchAn interview with our Youthworker: Young LeadersDid you know we have a young leaders program at ACC? Check out this podcast where Tim interviews our youth worker Natalie and one of our young leaders Esther about camping in the rain, developing leadership skills, mission week and our young leader program. Join us as we talk with Natalie Start our youth worker and Esther Whittall one of our young leaders on camping in the rain, mission week and all things youth!
2019-08-1214 minAmblecote Community ChurchLiving Our Faith Every Day - Group Session “Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says.”(James 1 v 22)
For the Word of God to be fruitful and meaningful in our lives it must find its way out into our daily practices, routines, relationships and activities. It cannot remain as something we simply listen to, we need be doers of the Word and not hearers only.
However, all of us in different ways and at different times find this very challenging.
Over the summer we will hear testimonies, stories and teaching looking together at how we can practically li...
2019-08-0539 minAmblecote Community ChurchThe Table of the Lord by Tim MurraySummer is a great time to gather together to declare the greatness of our God and encourage each other in our Christian walk. This Sunday we took some time to come around the Table of the Lord taking communion together. We took time to consider Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, and to celebrate that through His life, death and resurrection Sin and death were defeated, and we are set free to know the Father and eternal life in Him.
2019-07-2922 minAmblecote Community ChurchReaching the next generation by Deb Chamberlain 21 July 2019 Can we reach this next generation as The Church in the Black Country? Who is responsible for this? What could the impact be…?
The Love Black Country Next Gen Champion role is nearly a year old now! It has been full of challenges and many, many blessings. On Sunday 21st July I will be unpacking some of these questions with you, as well as some of my experiences this year. My journey to this role began when I started work as a primary school teacher in Cradley and then went on to become the Children’s Pastor at Calvary...
2019-07-2234 minAmblecote Community ChurchJustice, it's a minefield! by Roxy 14 July 2019We all familiar with the first two commandments ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’ and ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’
This Sunday our ‘Justice Service’ asks ‘who is our neighbour?’ Is it the lady next door, the family down the road or the stranger living in a different country? How do we love our neighbour as ourselves? One way is to act justly towards each other no matter who we are or where we live.
How often do we prefer each other’s need...
2019-07-2213 minAmblecote Community ChurchHow is your faith? by Adrian Lowe 7 July 2019 Growing up in a Pentecostal church in the 70’s and 80’s ‘faith’ was a subject much talked about. I witnessed many great evangelists with a healing ministry, saw some remarkable miracles and always wished I had the same sort of faith that they had. Most of the time I felt like I was last in queue when the Lord handed out faith!
When faith was talked about, often it was in the context of having faith for something. I recall reading a book about a famous Korean Pastor Yonngi Cho who prayed for a bicycle to visit remo...
2019-07-2224 minAmblecote Community ChurchPrepare for Battle by Tim Murray 30 June 2019 I wonder if you have ever seen the film ‘Locke’ featuring Tom Hardy?
If not, then prepare for some spoilers!
If you like any of Tom Hardy’s films then I would imagine you would be excited to see this – a ‘nail-biting thriller’ featuring one of the world’s most famous action movie stars. From the poster you might imagine the film to be an action-packed thriller with special effects, chase scenes, fast cars and explosions. But what if I was to tell you that the film features one actor, taking a drive from Birmingham to London whilst t...
2019-07-2238 minAmblecote Community ChurchCan we really trust the bible with Tim Murray & Tim BartonContinuing with our ‘Reading the Bible’ theme check out this podcast discussion between Tim Barton and Tim Murray on the historical evidence for the bible. Can we really trust what the Bible says? Is there strong historical evidence that supports its claims? And what do we do with all those bits of the Bible that don’t quite add up historically? Hear Tim & Tim’s discussion on these questions and more
2019-06-2430 minAmblecote Community ChurchReading the bible panelFor the last two weeks we’ve been laying the foundation for how we approach the Bible. A fortnight ago we looked at what we believe about the Bible; last week we talked about how to understand and interpret it. This is all very well, but many of us struggle to read the Bible at all! We may find all reading difficult, or we may find the Bible particularly hard. No matter how many new resolutions we make, inevitably after a few weeks we’re barely reading it again. Or, for others of us, we’ve faithfully read the Bible...
2019-06-2438 minAmblecote Community ChurchHearing from RoxyAs we all consider our response to God in this season we thought we’d produce a final podcast hearing from Roxy! As we look to invest in the next generation, Roxy is currently responsible for leading much of that work. We have also talked about releasing Roxy to study theology in the coming years. In this podcast we hear a little more from Roxy, the work she’s doing and her aspirations to study.
2019-06-1920 min
Amblecote Community ChurchUnderstanding the bible by Tim MurrayHow do we become good readers of scripture?
God encounters us in his word. When I read the Bible I am confronted with God. This remarkable reality underlies out beliefs about scripture which we explored last week. However, God has chosen to give us his word in a historically particular way. The eternal divine word is given through particular human beings, in particular places at a particular time in history.
Not only the Bible, but each one of us is also a historically particular person! We all have our lenses through which we see and...
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Amblecote Community ChurchThe Bible & Truth in a post-truth world by Tim MurrayIn our culture now, it is rather passé to think that there is any kind of objective or absolute truth. You believe one thing, I’ll believe another; both are true for us! But to claim that there is a truth that’s true for both of us is now offensive. As Christians, we’re even more offensive because not only do we claim there is a truth-for-everybody truth, but that this truth can be defined by a religious book that is millennia old. Frankly, the Christian claim that the Bible is the word of God and should be taken a...
2019-06-1029 minAmblecote Community ChurchImagining what could be with Tim Barton (Honouring God with our money pt3)This is our third podcast helping us to pray and think through how we respond to God in this season, following our church family meeting.
In this edition, Tim Murray and Tim Barton imagine together what the year out could look like on a day to day basis, but go on to imagine other ways that the life of our church family could develop over coming years.
We have been asked some questions over the last couple of weeks and thought it may be helpful to collect the most common ones into a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’...
2019-06-0728 minAmblecote Community ChurchBaptism Sunday with Tim MurrayThis Sunday join us as we baptize Nina, Darrel and Mark. We will hear each of their stories and celebrate with them as they become part of our church family and begin the life of following Jesus. It’s always encouraging to hear what Jesus is doing in people’s lives and to celebrate together the victory of Jesus in all of our lives. As ever, it would be great to pray for the three people getting baptised and come prepared to welcome them to the family: you may want to give them a verse, pray for them, write them a car...
2019-06-0337 minAmblecote Community ChurchYou are what you love by Dave HadleyThis week we explore Ephesians 5:1-22. This is a scripture packed with meaning and there’s plenty to explore. Paul has called for us to live like the new creation Christ has made us to be, and now he unpacks even more on what that looks like and what it doesn’t look like. We’ll take a look at the difficult issue of at what point does idolatry make you an idolator? What does it mean to live in the light? What are some of the issues of our old life and how does Paul suggest we tackle them
2019-06-0336 minAmblecote Community ChurchFrom "I" to "We"with Adrian Lowe (Honouring God with our money pt2)As part of our 'Responding to God in this season' series Tim Murray sits down with Adrian Lowe to look at how we are called to manage our finances as a church.
2019-05-2933 minAmblecote Community ChurchChewing the Figures with Tim Fellows (Honouring God with our money pt1)Tim Murray chats to Tim Fellows about Christians and finances
2019-05-2430 minAmblecote Community ChurchChurch Family Meeting 19 May 2019A church membership meeting on the direction we are going as a family.
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Amblecote Community ChurchLiving in Freedom by Adrian LoweWhat is real freedom? Humanity for all time, in every age has been looking for the answer to this question. Mankind is ‘hard-wired’ for freedom and so it becomes the pursuit of every generation. But what is it? How do you find it?
Many look for it in the abandonment of the perceived codes, rules and regulations of previous generations. Boundary-breaking is hailed as courageous and liberating. In the 18th century science took a massive leap forward and the age of reason was born. The conventions of a tight religious explanation of existence were jettisoned as science discover...
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Amblecote Community ChurchOne Baptism by Tim BartonWhen you have a two year old boy you spend much of your time reading or watching Thomas the Tank Engine. The interesting thing about a steam engine is really in the name – that it runs on steam. I find it incredible that you can power such a huge metallic vehicle, pulling carriages, people and cargo, on the stuff that comes out of your kettle when it’s boiled!
However, the reality is that although it is steam driving the pistons to create the momentum of a train, the energy and power is actually generated by coal, in the fire in the fir...
2019-05-1336 min
Amblecote Community ChurchBecoming a Mature Church: Unity & Diversity by Tim MurrayThis Sunday we return to our Ephesians series and pick up where we left off before Easter. In this passage, Paul turns from describing the Christian calling to applying it: he has spent half the letter teaching about what it is to be a Christian, but now he turns to how we should live in the light of this.
‘Unity’ and ‘diversity’ are words that are difficult to use without connoting the flavour and agenda of our modern liberalism, where diversity has become a political and social calling card for all manner of causes, many of them thoroughl...
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Amblecote Community ChurchEaster SundayTim Murray explores death and the great hope Christians are called to in Jesus
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Amblecote Community ChurchSelf Esteem by Tim MurraySelf-esteem’ is one of those concepts that has made in into the category of ‘unquestioned wisdom’ in our culture. We talk about it all the time as if we all know and agree what it means and why it matters. But just as an experiment, ask yourself, what does self-esteem actually mean? If you find this tricky, don’t worry, the experts can’t agree either. But whatever it is, we’re all agreed that its important. Our culture is quite convinced that ‘low self-esteem’ is at the root of many of our problems, and that ‘higher self-esteem’, would solve them.
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2019-04-1542 min
Amblecote Community ChurchFailure by Tim BartonA continuation of our Easter series - 'The cross has the final word' Hear Tim tackle the subject of failure in our lives.
2019-04-0833 minAmblecote Community ChurchReaching out in mission with Greg PlunkettThis Sunday we welcome Matt & Sarah Home and Greg Plunkett to share about their experience of living a missional life. Greg works as a missionary in Kenya, whilst Matt & Sarah oversee Willowdene Farm, a rehabilitation and training centre in Shropshire.
Seeking to live a missional life is part of what it means to follow Jesus. Paul writes to the Christians at Corinth explaining that ‘we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.’ (2 Cor 5 v 20). As we listen to the stories and testimonies from Matt, Sarah and Greg, all seeking to follow Jesus in the way He has ca...
2019-04-0121 minAmblecote Community ChurchAmblecote Panel MorningHow does God speak to us? Listen to a panel from Amblecote discuss and field questions about this pertinent issue.
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