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Guided by God’s Promises

Sermon text As many of you know, I play tennis with some of our church members on Monday morning. Last Monday, my body was so heavy and was not hitting the ball as I hoped I would. My body was not just responding. Although I can still run faster than all of my lovely Monday tennis friends, I know I will be getting slower. I still want to improve my second serve and backhand, but my body will be ageing Read more

Loopholes of Grace. (Sanctification)

The Loophole of Grace? … or the art of sanctification.Preacher: Rev Phil Swain Bible Reading: Romans 6:1-14 Last week our pastor Phil passionately preached on how we are made right with God through Grace – and how God did all of this for us before we understood. This amazing gift of Grace seems perfect but it comes with a loophole … that people seemingly could live however they wanted and as long as they ask God for forgiveness – everything Read more

Justified through Christ

Preacher: Rev Phil Swain Bible Reading: Romans 5:1-11 We will also be continuing our “deep dive” into the book of Romans we are spending the next two weeks looking at the key spiritual teaching that Paul highlights in his letter … that we are saved by faith. This week we will be exploring the teaching of “justification” but more importantly being open to the profound free gift of God’s grace to us. Our minister Phil loves preaching on Romans and Read more

Being the Bad Guys

Sermon Text We are starting a new series of the book of Romans. From today for 8 weeks until 25 June, Phil and I will be going through Romans chapters 1, 5, 6, and Romans 8 on Pentecost day, in June we are going through chapters 8, 10 , 12 and 13 & 14 to wrap up this series. We hope this will be helpful and meaningful series for our congregation in May and June. In his letter to the Read more

Gifts of God #3 – Bucket full of Blessings

Reading: Romans 5:12-21, 6:23Preacher: Rev Phil Swain Phil continues our “Gifts of God” program by going back to basics and focusing on God’s amazing gift to us; and we will tie it all together by sharing together in communion. And yes, there will be buckets and we will use them as a symbol of the wonderful, generous and excessive way that God blesses us. We will also be reflecting on the reality that sometimes it feels that there is a Read more

VISION SUNDAY 2022

Series: Vision 2022Theme: Vision Sunday 2022Bible Reading: Romans 12:1-3, 9-13Preacher: Rev Phil SwainDate: 13 February, 2022 Vision Sunday 2022 is an important day in our church year – a time where we cast a Vision of where God is leading us as a church for the next 12 months. Our pastor’s – Phil and Kevin – shared an honest reflection on how we have gone with our church’s vision over the past two years before reminding us again the core Read more

Passion Panel (Night Church)

Series: PassionTitle: Passion PanelDate: Night Church. 18th July, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Romans 6:4-11 We are continuing our series on Passion with a panel discussion with a number of people including Molk having a chat about what we are passionate about and how we can empower and release passion in our faith community. Panel Questions What are you passionate about?  What gets you fired up or are totally committed to? (Question for Molk but open to others). Kenda Casey Read more

Passion (Night Church)

Series: PassionTitle: Passion – Being there | being moved | being knownDate: Night Church. 18th July, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Romans 6:4-11 We are exploring passion – not the romantic notion of passion but rather the single-minded drive or commitment where we would risk everything and sacrifice everything for. “Something that we would die for”. Passion is something which is all-consuming, powerful and deeply affects us. Kenda Creasy Dean in her book “Practicing Passion” notes that young people are Read more