Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Patrick Butler

Reading: John 4:13-18, 25-30

Link to The Chosen: The Woman at the Well, as recommended in the talk.

9.15am, September 15th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Reading: 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11

Speaker: Patrick Butler

Note: apologies for the glitchy livestream audio this week; we're working to resolve this for future podcasts

9.15am, September 8th, 2024

Series: Romans

In the penultimate instalment of our series on the letter to the Romans, Patrick considers what Paul has to say about the relationship between church and state, and how we conduct ourselves so as to live well with each other.

Reading: Romans 13:1–7, 14:1–19

9.15am, July 21st, 2024

Series: Romans

Emma Phillips continues the Romans series, looking at a chapter that starts with the well-known exhortation to “…offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God”.

Book recommendation: Water from a Deep Well, by Gerald Sitter

Note: there were some glitches with this week’s livestream that have also affected parts of the podcast audio – the latter half of the reading, and a couple of sections of the talk. However, the majority is fine and the affected regions should still be intelligible.

Reading: Romans 12

9.15am, July 14th, 2024

Series: Romans

Patrick explores our role in partnering with God.

Reading: Romans 10:8–15

9.15am, July 7th, 2024

Series: Romans

We’ve reached the summit of our mountain-like representation of the book of Romans – the beacon of hope on the mountain-top. Dane Baker explores this for us in his last talk at Church on the Heath before he and Blanche move on to new pastures church-wise. 

Reading: Romans 8:14–19, 31–32, 38–39

9.15am, June 30th, 2024

Series: Romans

We’re now traversing the ‘ridge of freedom’ in our journey through Romans. The following image of Striding Edge on Helvellyn (Lake District), which Patrick references, may be helpful:

https://www.mountain-journeys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1442260_orig.jpg

Reading: Romans 6:1–7; 11–14

9.15am, June 23rd, 2024

Series: Romans

Having explored themes of the Gospel, then Sin, at the start of Romans, the next section focuses on Salvation.

Patrick kindly re-recorded this talk due to technical issues with Sunday’s livestream.

A couple of images to accompany the talk…

First the mountain-based ‘map’ of Romans from the Bible Society that provides a structure for this series:

https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/content/events/2023_romans_tour/journey.jpg

Second, the Choluteca Bridge (aka 'the bridge to nowhere’) that's used for an illustration towards the end of the talk. The following Google image search should bring up some relevant results:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=choluteca+bridge

Reading: Romans 3:19–24; 4:19–25

9.15am, June 9th, 2024

Series: Romans

Patrick Butler introduces this new series looking at the book of Romans from the New Testament. He introduces the sender of this letter and its recipients before starting to unpack its message.

Click the following link to watch the testimony from an Iranian Christian, named Mojtaba, that's introduced at the end of the talk. This video has been produced by the Bible Society:

https://player.vimeo.com/video/812173845

Reading: Romans 1:1–7, 14–17

9.15am, May 26th, 2024

Series: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament

This week, Katie Roberts completes our current series with the famous story of David and Goliath. She finds both similarities, and differences, between David and Jesus. Through David’s story, Katie presents thought-provoking ideas, including using who we are for God, not wearing someone else’s armour(!), and how much God loves the underdog. An inspirational listen.

Reading: 1 Samuel 17:45–50

9.15am, May 12th, 2024