Here are the previous sermon series that we have run at Christ Church. You can follow the links to see details of the sermons from each series.
As we begin a new year entering another lockdown, we look forward to a time, hopefully later this year, when Christ Church is fully restored.
As part of this hope, the talks in our services up to Lent will focus upon how we can 'Build Back Better' in 2021 as we think about what sort of community life we will return to.
Climate change caused by our carbon emissions is threatening our planet as never before. It affects us all, but particularly the poorest people in the world. As Christians we believe we have a God-given responsibility to care for God’s creation.
During this sermon series we will be exploring the theological basis for our relationship with the natural world, and Christian belief regarding its future. With a different theme being launched in the sermons each week, combined with the daily challenges during Lent, we hope to reduce our carbon footprint as individuals and as a church.
During this Carbon Fast we can examine and reshape our daily patterns of life, our spending habits and our travel choices and help preserve God’s creation for future generations.
There are multiple accounts of Jesus’ resurrection appearances in the New Testament, with each one a unique and significant event. This short series looks at three of those events and explore what was special about each occasion: on the 'dusty road' to Emmaus, His appearances to the disciples 'behind locked doors' and beside the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
What if Jesus words were never intended to fit into your existing lifestyle? What if they were meant to change everything? What if Jesus really meant the things that he said? What might our response to His teaching look like? If he meant what he said how might his words affect our relationships, investments, speech, perspectives, politics, shopping, and every other aspect of life? What does it really mean to be a Disciple?
Justice, Love, Spirituality, Beauty, Freedom, Truth and Power. These are ideals that we all strive for, yet so often we find ourselves falling short. Why is that?
Inspired by Tom Wright's 2020 book, we will be looking to the Gospel of John to help us to see, not only why we strive for these ideals, but also why we so often experience them as broken. In doing so, we hope to find how Christianity provides us with the vision and resources for mending these signposts, giving us a clear and compelling explanation of the world, and of our role and responsibility within it.
The Bible uses a number of pictures and images to describe the church. Each of these provide us with different insights into its nature and purpose. Evangelical churches like Christ Church have sometimes been accused of having a rather low ecclesiology (theology of the church) and failing to recognise the importance that the Bible gives to it. As we start up our regular morning services again and relaunch Christ Church, it is therefore a good time to reconsider the nature of what church is meant to be and how we can respond to this calling and challenge.
The Bible uses a number of pictures and images to describe the church. Each of these provide us with different insights into its nature and purpose. Evangelical churches like Christ Church have sometimes been accused of having a rather low ecclesiology (theology of the church) and failing to recognise the importance that the Bible gives to it. As we start up our regular morning services again and relaunch Christ Church, it is therefore a good time to reconsider the nature of what church is meant to be and how we can respond to this calling and challenge.
There are a number of parts of church life with which we are so familiar that we can often stop looking for fresh thoughts about them. Our calling as Christians, however, is to constantly search the Scriptures for those things that God would have us understand better. During this short series we will therefore look for fresh insights from the Bible on the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion and also our annual service of Remembrance for those who have perished in war.
There are a number of parts of church life with which we are so familiar that we can often stop looking for fresh thoughts about them. Our calling as Christians, however, is to constantly search the Scriptures for those things that God would have us understand better. During this short series we will therefore look for fresh insights from the Bible on the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion and also our annual service of Remembrance for those who have perished in war.
Waiting for things is not a very popular notion today. It is, however, a concept that stands at the heart of the Christian faith and one particularly associated with Advent. During Advent, we wait not only for Christmas but for Jesus' promised return to earth. We can be helped to do the latter better by reflecting upon the ways that the Patriarchs, Moses, David and the Prophets and finally John the Baptist all looked forward to the first coming of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.
Waiting for things is not a very popular notion today. It is, however, a concept that stands at the heart of the Christian faith and one particularly associated with Advent. During Advent, we wait not only for Christmas but for Jesus' promised return to earth. We can be helped to do the latter better by reflecting upon the ways that the Patriarchs, Moses, David and the Prophets and finally John the Baptist all looked forward to the first coming of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago.
