Amblecote Community Church

Surrender. A positive word, or a negative one?

Last Sunday we read the first two chapters of Habakkuk, a conversation that happened between Habakkuk and God. This Sunday we're looking at the last chapter from this minor prophet, Habakkuk's prayer. Here Habakkuk models spiritual maturity to us. He also has quite a paradox in his prayer, both exhorting God to act now, but also speaking

Have you ever struggled with the presence of evil in the world? Have you ever struggled with the presence of evil within the church and the people of God? Then Habakkuk is the minor prophet for you!

Listen in on the conversation Habakkuk has with God and be encouraged that there will come a day when no evil will remain!

Judgement will come - God's judgement will destroy evil and set things right again.

We need to learn to live by faith - we need to live demonstrating our trust in God day by day.

The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God - this life is not all there is, there will be a resurrection, a judgement and then a new creation. Endlessly satisfying rest, beauty and pleasure...

Let the whole earth be silent before him - we can complain to God and question him, but also, eventually, we must humble ourselves.

On Sunday 8th September we opened the Bible to Malachi again and found God's people at a time when they weren't living out what they were preaching, they were abusing their relationships, they were acting unjustly, and were being stingy with their money/resources.

Listen now to Tim Barton's message in which he shares that there is still hope!

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'“I have loved you,” says the Lord.' - Malachi 1:1

On Sunday 1st September we marked the start of the new month by launching our new series on Messages from the Minor Prophets. Tim Barton brought the first of two messages looking at the book of Malachi, a letter from God to his people.

3 reasons to keep pressing on

1. There is always room for improvement

2. There is a bright future ahead

3. There is a prize to be reached for

On Sunday 25th August Hugh read Philippians 3:7-14 and brought a message about pressing on.

Love and Freedom are two values we all hold as desirable, but are they compatible? This video explores how common understandings of ‘freedom’ actually work against the possibility of meaningful love, and how the Christian worldview offers a way of preserving both these goals in their richest sense.

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Love is a contested term. Do we have to agree to love one another? Do we have to affirm one another’s beliefs and actions? What does it mean to accept someone? Or does love include the ability to ‘love across’ disagreement and difference?

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The stories of identity and power/oppression that we explored in part 1 of Unravelling are some of the ways that we are searching for meaning in our culture. In this discussion we explore why our cultural worldview cannot deliver what it promises, and begin to explore what it is like to live inside the worldviews we’ve discussed – both in terms of the logical conclusions of each worldview, and also the lived experience that they entail.

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Questions about whether we can have meaningful knowledge of reality and how we can come to know what we know are of central importance to what it means to be human. In this discussion we explore how a Christian worldview begins to address them, arguing that not only is there a truth to be known, but that we can come to know what is real reality truly, if always imperfectly.

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Check out the Q&A video here, with the questions that were submitted by our audience who were in the room during the recording

On Sunday 18th August Eric interviewed Davinia about what she does Monday-Friday and how she takes God with her wherever she goes.