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Sunday 9th June, 2024 - West & North Sites

Speaker - James Rankine



James continues our series taking a close look at the book of Ephesians, focusing on verses 22 to 32 of chapter 4, which provides us with a blueprint for Christian behaviour. In particular, James highlights verse 27 -- "Do not give the devil a foothold" -- because, James warns us, he can make a foothold into a stronghold.

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Ephesians 4:22-32

22)  You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23)  to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24)  and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

25)  Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body. 26)  “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27)  and do not give the devil a foothold. 28)  Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.

29)  Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30)  And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31)  Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32)  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

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Recorded at North Site - 09Jun2024

Sunday 2nd June, 2024 - West & North & Sites

Sunday 9th June, 2024 - Central AM & PM

Speaker - Matt Meads

Matt takes a look at the story of the woman who anointed Jesus with expensive perfume during the days leading up to His arrest and execution. He points out that the woman withheld nothing, and gave every last drop of the expensive perfume in an act of love for her King. Matt encourages us to demonstrate our love for Jesus with similar abandonment - to hold nothing back, pouring out everything we have as a love offering to the King of kings.



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Mark 14v1-11



1) Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2)  ‘But not during the festival,’ they said, ‘or the people may riot.’

3)  While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

4)  Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, ‘Why this waste of perfume? 5)  It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.’ And they rebuked her harshly.

6)  ‘Leave her alone,’ said Jesus. ‘Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7)  The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8)  She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9)  Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.’

10)  Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11)  They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

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Recorded at West Site - 02Jun2024

Sunday 26th May, 2024 - North Site

Speaker - Dave Pike


Dave takes us through chapter 4 of Ephesians, in which Paul impresses on us the importance of unity in the Body of Christ. Dave then relates Paul's teaching about the five-fold ministry gifts that the Lord has granted to the Church - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.



Ephesians 4v1-7

1) As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4) There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7) But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.



Ephesians 4v11-16

11) So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12) to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13) until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14) Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15) Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16) From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

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Recorded at North Site - 26May2024

Sunday 19th May, 2024 - West & North Sites
Sunday 28th April, 2024 - Central Site AM & PM

Speaker - Dan King


Dan invites us into a life being seen and known by the "God who sees us". He encourages us that we are created to live in close relationship with God and those around us and to resist the temptation to hide away.

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Luke 12v1-3

1) In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2) Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3) Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.



Genesis 16v7-14

7) The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8) And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered. 9) Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 

10) The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.” 11) The angel of the Lord also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael (which means God hears), for the Lord has heard of your misery. 12) He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” 

13) She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” 14) That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi (which means well of the Living One who sees me).


John 4v13-26

13)  Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14)  but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’

15)  The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.’

16)  He told her, ‘Go, call your husband and come back.’

17)  ‘I have no husband,’ she replied.

Jesus said to her, ‘You are right when you say you have no husband. 18)  The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.’

19)  ‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘I can see that you are a prophet. 20)  Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.’

21)  ‘Woman,’ Jesus replied, ‘believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22)  You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23)  Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. 24)  God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’

25)  The woman said, ‘I know that Messiah’ (called Christ) ‘is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’

26)  Then Jesus declared, ‘I, the one speaking to you – I am he.’
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Recorded at North Site - 19May2024

Sunday 12th May, 2024 - West & North Sites
Sunday 19th May, 2024 - Central Site AM & PM

Speaker - Alice Meads

Alice concludes our series called Live Like Jesus: Discipleship and Our Sexual Formation, with Part 6, presenting a biblical vision for singleness.

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Matthew 19:10-12

10) Jesus’ disciples then said to him, “If this is the case, it is better not to marry!”

11) “Not everyone can accept this statement,” Jesus said. “Only those whom God helps. 12) Some are born as eunuchs, some have been made eunuchs by others, and some choose not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”


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Recorded at North Site - 12May2024

Sunday 5th May, 2024 - West & North Sites
Sunday 12th May, 2024 - Central Site AM & PM

Speaker - James Rankine

James continues with Part 5 of our series called Live Like Jesus: Discipleship and Our Sexual Formation, concentrating on God's design for marriage.

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Ephesians 5:21-31

Instructions for Christian Households

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Saviour. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to Himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of His body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” 

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Recorded at West Site - 05May2024