Citygate Church

Our guest speaker, Ed Mellish - from Gateway Church, Basingstoke - brings a talk with the provoking title 'Can Anything Good Come from Christianity? It's an invitation to the sceptical, searching and hurting to explore the claims of Christianity, and a fantastic talk for anyone who might be interested in finding out more about the Christian faith.

About this series:

In some senses nothing has changed - the church is still the church, with the same values, the same vision and the same people. Yet, so much has changed - we are now onsite and online, people are still going through a historic event and church life will never be quite the same again. A series on the church is therefore very timely and will hopefully remind people of the unchangeable nature of the church as well as envisioning people for what has changed. We’re framing this series of Sunday talks around eight terms used in the New Testament to describe the church - people, family, community, temple, unity, body, disciples, witnesses. These are the words the New Testament uses to describe the Spirit-empowered people of God and these are key elements for how we want to build Citygate.

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Scripture: 1 Peter 2:3-10

The Bible’s story can be described in many ways; one of which is as the story of God creating a people for himself. From Adam & Eve, through Abraham, Exodus and the gospels to the picture of Revelation 21:3: “They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.” This has always been God’s intention - not only to rescue individual people, but to have a people who know him and through whom he is made known to the world. If Jesus is the image of the invisible God, making God visible and known to us, there is a real sense in which the church, too, makes God visible and known in the world.

Russ revisits our theme for 2020 - ‘Blessed to Bless’ - and encourages us to continue to be a blessing as we 're-form' church by drawing on Zechariah's phrase of being a church without walls. He talks of the fire around and the glory within as God's protection and presence that enables us to open our gates and expand with faith toward new sites, meetings and a Community Hub.

In this talk Tim speaks to us about Psalm 33 and God's faithfulness. The Bible frequently encourages us to remember that God is faithful. This unshakable truth serves as an anchor for faith through the stormy seas of life.

Guy Miller reminds us that the Covid 19 crisis was a moment to wake the church to her purpose and mission - to restore first love, restore the gospel, restore the gifts of the Holy Spirit and restore the kingdom.

About this series:

This is part of a series of broadcasts called ‘Encountering Jesus’. We take a look through the Gospel of John at different interactions people had with Jesus, discovering more about His character with each encounter.

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In this talk we hear about Jesus' encounter with Lazarus, raising him from the dead and giving us hope about life after death.

About this series:

This is part of a series of broadcasts called ‘Encountering Jesus’. We take a look through the Gospel of John at different interactions people had with Jesus, discovering more about His character with each encounter.

About this talk:

In this talk we hear about Jesus' encounter with a blind man, and how Jesus has power to heal.

About this series:

This is part of a series of broadcasts called ‘Encountering Jesus’. We take a look through the Gospel of John at different interactions people had with Jesus, discovering more about His character with each encounter.

About this talk:

In this talk we explore Jesus' encounter with the woman caught in adultery and the Pharisees who accused her - and how Jesus responded with grace.