Jeff carries on the series in Colossians. The hope of the world is a mystery revealed in Jesus. It comes at a cost - but the cost is SO worth it, it is Christ in you the hope of glory!

We're starting a new series for a new year! Over the next week join St Matts as we journey through the book of Colossians - a letter written to the freshling church at Colossae praising God for the seed of the Gospel that has been growing and bearing fruit and encouraging them to go deeper that as they understand the fullness of God in Jesus they might also be brought to fullness in Jesus. In todays passage Paul prays that they (and we!) would bear fruit, grow in knowing God, be strengthen by the spirit and give thanks — what a great way to start a new year!

Join Mike to find out how graffiti and cereal might help us to embrace all that God has for us as we head into 2024.

Join Graham as he helps us to understand the meaning of advent — Engaging with the gospel and then learning how to live that out in the same through embracing repentance, eating (belief), expecting (being immersed!), and being empowered (by Holy Spirit). 

How are you sleeping at the moment? How are your peace levels? We speak and sing about peace so much at Christmas and yet it is a notoriously unpeaceful time of year. So what is the Peace that is promised at Christmas when the angels visit some shepherds on a hill and promised "Peace to all on whom his favour rests." Join mike to find out more...

As we round off this "Back to Basics" series we take a slight change of tack as we explore the big topic of climate change. Join Dan who has a background in climate science as he goes through both the serious implications of climate change from a scientific point of view as well as the reason Christians should be leading the way in caring for the world that God has gifted us with.

Join Claire (chaplain at Plymouth Marjon and member our church) as she carries on our "Back to Basics" series, looking at the often missed discipline of Solitude - space we all need in this busy life to reconnect with Jesus.

Why do Christians get together on Sunday to sing together? And is that even what worship is? Join Mike and our panel - Noah, Naomi, Claire and Graham as they discuss all things worship - why we do it, who it's for and how we can grow together in this area of our life as a church. Enjoy!

Sally speaks about the beautiful and fundamental practice of forgiveness. Forgiveness starts with God's great mercy, it flows to us — sometimes we need to learn to forgive ourselves and it enables us to make those difficult costly choices to forgive those who have hurt us: "To forgive is to set a prisoner free... and to find that the prisoner is yourself."

What's your experience of communion? A key part of your discipleship, or something slightly weird that happens up the front of church which you're not quite sure about? Communion was given as a gift by Jesus to his disciples so that we might remember and enter into the story of his death and resurrection- it is a beautiful picture of the promises of God to us, promises which we step into simply by opening our hands and receiving. And through it we get to experience union with God and union with each other — what a gift!