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  1. 2D AGO

    Andrew Strutzenberg - Stories that Shape Us – Dis-union and Communion (22nd Feb)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 22nd Feb 2026. Dis-union and Communion: How we found ourselves separated from God, ourselves and others and how God brings us back together. The story of the Fall, or original sin is one of the most deeply embedded stories in our collective psyches. Eve eats the fruit. Passes it to Adam, and next thing you know they are exiled from Eden. Among other things, this is a story of estrangement. People who were once intimately connected to one another, their creator, and the earth itself now feel distance, disharmony and shame. In this message, we will look at why this story resonates so deeply with us and what God has done to bring us back together.

  2. FEB 15

    Andrew Hook - Stories that Shape Us – Trust and distrust: the journey with God (15th Feb)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 15th Feb 2026. From Genesis 3: 1-7 we consider stories of chaos (and the other side of chaos: possibilities), stories of inclusion and exclusion (everything belongs) and stories of calling (come forth!) Please note that Andrew uses  various images/ paintings to illustrate this talk so you may prefer to watch rather than listen.

  3. FEB 8

    Johanna Derry Hall - Stories that Shape Us – Bountiful and Boundaried (8th Feb)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 8th Feb 2026. God saw all that God had made and it was very good. But what happened next? What was God’s intention for humanity in creation and can we experience that still today? This talk takes a look at the story of the garden and explores the invitation of life that God makes to us in it.

  4. FEB 1

    Don Palmer - Stories that Shape Us – Isolation or Companionship (1st Feb)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 1st Feb 2026. This week we dig into Genesis 2:4-25, and look at another aspect of the Creation story which is meant to shape us better than the stories we’ve come to believe in.

  5. JAN 25

    Rupert Ward - Stories that Shape Us – Rest at the Heart of the World (25th Jan)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 25th Jan 2026. At the end of the creation story there is this odd phrase that God ‘rested’ from his work. What does it mean for God to rest from work? It clearly can’t mean that God was stressed and tired. And what does it mean for us to enter God’s rest? How does that promote human flourishing? This sermon looks at four different ways that God’s rest has been understood offering a summary phrase for each, and a posture that helps us enter into this life-changing understanding.

  6. JAN 18

    Andrew Strutzenberg - Stories that Shape Us – Tell a Better Story (18th Jan)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 18th Jan 2026. We all live within a series of stories, personal stories, family stories, cultural stories, cosmic or religious stories. Sometimes these stories compete, and sometimes they feel grim or hopeless. We believe the scriptures speak a better and more beautiful story over us and helps us understand our identity, our purpose and our place in God’s world. Perhaps there is no greater illustration of the paradox of human existence than the creation account in Genesis 1:26-31 whereby mankind is formed from dirt and then infused with divine breath. Sometimes it’s hard to see anything but dirt in ourselves or in others, but this passage invites us to look deeper and see the divine love, beauty and dignity that animates us all.

  7. JAN 11

    Rupert Ward - Stories that Shape Us – The stories we live by (11th Jan)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 11th Jan 2026. Stories don’t tell us just what to think they train us how to see. They shape our imagination long before they shape our opinions. They teach us what kind of world we live in what kind of people we are and what kind of future is possible. We often think beliefs shape us most, but stories hold more power. That’s why arguments rarely transform people, but stories do. And that’s why the Bible doesn’t start with a list of doctrines, but it starts with a story. Much debate is had on how to interpret the early chapters of Genesis. But this debate often misses the powerful way in which these stories tell of who God is, what kind of world this is, and how we flourish as human beings.

  8. 12/07/2025

    Andrew Strutzenberg - A Christlike Way – A Christlike direction (7th Dec)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 7th Dec 2025. This sermon concludes our Autumn series “A Christlike Way” by exploring the birth of Jesus and the counterintuitive nature of the incarnation of God. In the familiar Advent story of Jesus’ birth we are exposed to contrasting figures of authority: Augustus Cesar, the most powerful man in the world, and Jesus, the world’s creator, born in obscure poverty. In a world obsessed with upward mobility, aspiring to be more like Cesar, what would it look like to embrace the downward mobility of Jesus?

  9. 11/30/2025

    Rupert Ward - A Christlike Way – The God who Kneels and the People who Follow (30th Nov)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 30th Nov 2025. This was the penultimate talk in our series A Christlike Way. Rupert looked closely at Philippians 2: 1-8, which can sometimes be read as a list of rules or standards one must reach.  However, perhaps this passage (and Jesus) is inviting us into deep transformation, and not rule following at all.

  10. 11/23/2025

    Kali Strutzenberg - A Christlike Way – An Invitation To Be (23rd Nov)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 23rd Nov 2025. When we think about following Jesus we tend to think about the ‘shoulds and oughts’. But sometimes there is an invitation to just be.  In this sermon we explore what it looks like to show up authentically for ourselves and others.

  11. 11/09/2025

    Andrew Hook - A Christlike Way – The Beatitudes and a new heart (9th Nov)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 9th Nov 2025. If Jesus is the revelation of what’s going on inside the eternal God (Richard Rohr cf Colossians 1:15) what does Matthew make of Jesus’s inaugural address (the Beatitudes) and of the Christlike way? Jesus, the wisdom teacher addresses fundamental questions about the way the world is and what is important. Tricky words such as ‘blessed’ and ‘kingdom of heaven’ receive particular attention.  We are it seems included, enfolded and invited into sharing in the life, the flow and the work of God.

  12. 11/02/2025

    Rupert Ward - A Christlike Way – Remember Who You Are (2nd Nov)

    The weekly message from Community Church Edinburgh. This talk is from Sunday, 2nd Nov 2025. This Christ-like way sermon series has explored welcome, hospitality and inclusion. So does it matter how we live? This sermon explores a text that has often been used to exclude and reinterprets it as a text of invitation to experience the God-life here and now as we let go of our disordered passions.

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