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Sunday, 11 February 2018 | Graham Webb – Love God – Encourage One Another – Transform Chester Do you love God? Do you love Jesus? In Joshua 22:5, Joshua is told to be very careful to love the Lord. In Matthew 6:33, Jesus tells us to seek first his kingdom; to put God’s purposes first. Are we careful to love the Lord? Do we put him first? We should. But there is no need for us to feel that this is an onerous obligation or a burden. The amazing truth is that God gives us the power to love him – as well as all the reason we could ever need. Romans 5:5 – God’s love has been poured into our hearts; he helps us to love him!

Sunday, 4 February 2018 | Keith Cooper Mark 10:13-16. Jesus’ attitude here may have been a shock to the Jews. Boys were not considered significant until the age of 13; girls never so. Jesus’ counter-culture attitude reveals his loving heart. Further, Jesus demonstrates that salvation comes through a dependent, childlike faith.

Sunday, 28 January 2018 | Rob Pomeroy For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. (Romans 14:17-19, ESV) Rob takes us through the fourteenth chapter of Romans as we consider the practical application of the apostle Paul’s magnificent letter.

Sunday, 21 January 2018 | Dave Scotland In Romans 13, Paul shows of three duties to which we are called: - to the state - to each other - to Christ

Sunday, 18 February 2018 | Dave Brown Paul echoes Jesus’ “new commandment” for us to love one another. A body that’s in a state of dysfunction is not a body that can work effectively – whether a human body or a church congregation. Jesus intervenes to correct this dysfunction, this separation within the church. In Romans 15:1-24, Paul raises a really cry for a unified, missional church.

Sunday, 14 January 2018 | Andy Lawrie Paul was passionate about the Gospel. In Romans 12 he shows what Christianity should look like, based as it is on a living relationship with God.

What else could go wrong? Lectern drops in the middle of preach to roars of laughter!

Paul Jackson Psalm 119:1-8 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Sunday, 24 December 2017 | Emma Beddoes Isaiah 9:6-7, ESV For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. These words were given to Isaiah 700 years before Jesus was born. What must Isaiah have made of this, as he was writing it? How did he know this was God? For that matter, how does anyone hear God? How do we know when God is speaking to us? Against the backdrop of this Messianic prophecy, which foretold the coming of the Saviour Jesus Christ, Emma offers practical advice for all Christians, as relevant in ancient Bethlehem as it is for us today. And she considers some names by which our Lord is kn

Dave Brown Today Dave talks about God's divine design in the rescue of humanity. The tabernacle is shown as a divine picture of the coming of Jesus as our atoning sacrifice for sin.

Keith Cooper Romans 9:30-10:21. In this talk we discuss the paradoxical relationship between God’s sovereignty and our human responsibility. One moment, Paul is explaining the 100% Sovereignty of God and a moment later he tells us that we have complete responsibly for how we behave. The conclusion, it is God’s action alone that saves someone and secondly, it is because of people’s rejection of the gospel that they are lost. Ultimately we need Jesus...

Sunday, 26 November 2017 Rob Pomeroy Romans 9:1-29. Rob talks about God’s purpose and justice and encourages us to see the sovereignty of God in every part of life... God is God. we aren't!

Sunday, 26 November 2017 | Paul Jackson Romans 8:18-39. In this central, gospel-affirming passage, Paul the apostle invites us to view all our suffering in the light of our coming redemption.

Sunday, 19 November 2017 | Keith Cooper Romans 8: this chapter highlights the most amazing, wonderful news... "In Christ" we are not condemned! In fact, 'in Christ' we have been set free. This is much stronger than simply saying 'I am not condemned'; it is that there is no condemnation at all - there is no possibility of it. Not only are you not condemned, you can never and will never be condemned, in Christ.

Sunday, 12 November 2017 | Dave Brown Romans 7: this chapter highlights how the struggle with a sin is a common experience. The closer we are to God, the more aware we become of our own inadequacy. But we no longer live under the law – what does this mean?

Sunday, 5 November 2017 | Keith Cooper Does grace mean that we can carry on sinning? Paul says “No”. Grace means that we can live in victory over sin. Our identity now is not in sin, but in Christ’s death and resurrection. Keith continues our study in Romans, expanding chapter 6.

Kelly & Emily's testimonies and subsequent baptisms.

Sunday, 29 October 2017 | Graham Anns We can trust God, as we walk along the road of life; people should see that our journey isn’t so much about our getting from A to B as being about our trust in him. As we walk on the road of life we will meet people God has placed there. To those people, we most demonstrate Christ – where we work, in our communities, in our sports clubs, in ours schools. God commissions us to love him and to love our neighbours. That’s our calling. Our neighbours are worthy of the same attention we give ourselves. Graham teaches from Luke 10:25-37, the parable of the Good Samaritan and reminds us that this journey may be messy!

Sunday, 22 October 2017 | Rob Pomeroy In this study on Romans chapter 5, Rob explores the work – and the necessity – of the cross. He also may or may not mention blob fishes, once or twice.

Sunday, 15 October 2017 | Keith Cooper Keith preaches today from Chapter 4 of the book of Romans. A key theme in this chapter is that “Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Paul here gives examples (in the form of Abraham and Kind David) of the way in which justification works. The kind of people God declares to be righteous are people of faith. Abraham was justified in Christ by faith, even before the time Christ’s sacrifice had occurred. Everyone at every point in history must come to God in the same way, through the same door. It helps to understand this passage by thinking of “family”. God is the gracious parent who gives us much though we have nothing of value to give in return.