From Ordinary to Altar // Sept/Oct 2025
Sunday 2 Nov In our final sermon in this series Jonah looks at how our words can become altars for God’s presence. In John 8, we see Jesus perfectly exhibiting restrained and liberated speech. By looking at why and how Jesus operated in this way, we discover how our words and our silence can become places of God’s power to move and unleash freedom in our lives and those around us.
Sunday 26th October “How do our emotions become altars of invitation for God’s presence? Jonah explores how our emotions are not meant to view individualistically. Instead, we learn from the biblical texts that our emotions, and specifically grief, enable us to witness to God’s resurrecting power as we surrender and confess them in the presence of God and the family of saints.”
Sunday 19th October Pete James continues our series looking at how we can practically hunger and thirst for righteousness in the ordinary parts of our lives. Taking Jesus in Gethsemane as a Biblical archetype for decision-making, Pete invites us to cultivate four things in our small and big decisions: decide from our belovedness; trusting the character of God; desiring God's will; and acting in line with the authority God has given to us. Pete makes the point that our daily decisions are a gymnasium for our discerned decisions and that we must learn to listen to God's whispers before we need him to shout.
Sunday 12th October Becky Callaghan continues our series by looking at the home, inviting us to see our homes as places of worship, formation and surrender - where God’s presence dwells in the ordinary unseen moments of life.
Sunday 5th October Si Topliss looks at how we spend our days somewhere, putting our hands to something, whether that's caring for a child, being in a workplace, paid or not paid. How do we learn to know who we are in God and work as His handiwork, in the work he's given us to do?
Sunday 28th September Dan encourages us to come to know the love of God in our mistakes, by coming out of hiding and being seen by him. We’re called to be a community that extinguish the power of shame as we mediate God’s love to each other through the practice of confession.
Sunday 21 September Pete James continues our series looking at how to turn everyday parts of our lives into altars for the presence of God. Pete looks at a Biblical vision for a 24 hour period and how each part - night, morning, day, evening - has significance. Pete exhorts us to learn to shape our days around union with God because how we spend our days is how, ultimately, we spend our lives.
Sunday 14 September Pete James kicks of our new series “from Ordinary to Altar: learning to make everyday aspects of life places of invitation to God” by looking at our money. Pete invites us to become worshippers, stewards and patrons with our money so we limit its destructive power and release its creative potential