King's Church London

Today we start a new series on Paul’s letter to the Colossians. Paul begins as he often does, with thanksgiving and prayer – but his prayers tell us a lot about the nature of a fruitful and ultimately meaningful life.

If you missed last Sunday or Vision Sunday the week before, Steve Tibbert, our senior pastor, shared some important news about the future leadership of King’s. You can watch the full interview with Steve & Deb, Joe & Sylvia and Andrew Wilson as they share some of their story and heart for the future of King’s.

This Sunday Joe Speaks from Isaiah 42:1-4 and focuses on the character and leadership of Jesus Christ. He highlights four key aspects of Jesus: His role as a servant, His humility, His compassion, and His ultimate victory. Unlike many leaders, Jesus came to serve others, bringing justice through self-sacrifice. He offers hope to the broken and weak, never abandoning those whose faith feels fragile.

This Vision Sunday our senior pastor, Steve Tibbert, shares some big news with us about the vision and future of King's Church.

Christians believe in the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come. Today, Andrew shows how Paul describes the future resurrection as sowing a seed, bearing an image, and swallowing a sheet.

Peter writes to a church living in a pagan culture which was persecuting them. Peter encourages the believers to understand who they are in Christ and to be living stones being built into the house of God. He warns them they will feel like exiles and foreigners but that’s ok, just be godly strangers, citizens of another Kingdom but known in the world for your goodness. Finally in the church he calls them to be loving servants caring for one another and using their gifts to serve others.

This Sunday is the last of our 'People in Proverbs' series. Andrew focuses on the "woman of noble character" from Proverbs 31, looking at the translation challenges and explores the diverse qualities attributed to this woman, such as diligence, strength, generosity, fearlessness, kindness, and godliness. Andrew emphasises that this passage is not just about setting expectations for women, but about teaching young men to value qualities beyond physical beauty and charm. He highlights how this woman represents wisdom itself, and ultimately, the Church as the bride of Christ.

How do we live as wise people? The Proverbs are so helpful, and Proverbs 26 describes 4 characters (The Fool, The Sluggard, The Quarrerlsome and The Deceiver) as a word of warning and how to conduct ourselves.

Proverbs teaches us godly wisdom using different characters and rhetoric. Today, we meet Lady Wisdom. King Solomon personified wisdom as a desirable lady to persuade his sons to desire wisdom above all else. As we see the Right, Rewarding and Redeeming nature of wisdom, we see our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who calls out to us daily to receive life and love Him because one day, all who love Him will feast with Him in glory.

This week’s preach is about The Simple character in Proverbs 9. We don’t like to admit we’re simple or foolish – surely we just need a little bit of wisdom! In reality we are all called to make a daily choice to go in and eat with wisdom or folly. However ‘Simple’ we are, wisdom is on offer and more than that a relationship with the all-knowing, wise God. If we will only turn around, admit our need of wisdom, kneel before the Holy One we will find life and hope.