In March we're following on from our vision and values talks from the start of the year with a new series on the rhythms that help us draw closer to Jesus. Charles kicked things off this week speaking to us about fasting.

Our reading this week was from 1 Corinthians 12. James spoke about what it means to radically live out our identity as the body of Christ.

Our Church values are simple: Faith, Hope and Love.

Here, Ro unpacks what it looks like to be people of faith and shares stories of her experience depending on Jesus.

Wayne talks us through John 3:16 and John 8:1-11 and what actually happens when we bring people to Jesus.

James & Ro introduce us to a tool called Jesus at the door to help us introduce our friends to Jesus.

Wayne introduces the 2024 vision values to the church family through three well-known and well-loved verses; Corinthians 1:13, Jeremiah 29:11 and John 3:16.

James introduces "Bringing Bristol to Jesus", the next step in our vision for the city.

The Armour of God: "put on the full armour of God, so that you may take your stand against the devil’s schemes".

Sam expands on Paul’s writing on the spiritual battle Christians engage in daily. The enemies Christians face, ultimately, are not physical people or objects; our true opponent is sin and the devil. Sam encourages us to find space in our lives for prayer; when we pray, our enemy is defeated and revival happens.

Wayne shares his recent experience of mission when he travelled to Kasese, Uganda with SOMAUK.

Submission?

Submitting to one another feels unpalatable in 2023 but we’re called to live and love like Jesus. 

Wendy explores what impact this counter cultural lifestyle choice can have in our families and communities? 

James reflects on what it means to be a child of God.

Charles Auld reflects on Paul's letter written to the Ephesians. Ephesis was at that time a prosperous trading city on the edges of the Aegean Sea, not far from modern day Izmir in Turkey.

Sunday 5th November

Wayne Massey Ephesians 4: 1-16

Reverend Wayne Massey reflects on Paul's letter, written while under house arrest in Rome.

Sunday 15th October - Talk

Paul Sankey talks about the biblical meaning of "temple", how Jesus described himself as a temple and that there are places where heaven overlaps with earth. God is dispersing throughout Bristol, throughout the world, in us. We, are the place of God's presence on earth.

Ephesians 2:1-10 Dead, Alive and Grace. 

There's around 220 words in this passage. About 70 of them have theological meaning. James picks out 3 of those words to help us understand this passage today, whilst telling three stories from the same day in 2017.

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In the second of B&A’s new Autumn Talks series Wayne Massey discusses Paul’s letter to the Ephesians; how Paul prays his readers would receive all they need from God. In this talk Wayne unpacks the elements of Paul's prayer and how they matter for us today.

Paul begins his letter to the Ephesians by reminding them of who they have become in Jesus. What does that mean for them and us?

On Sunday, James spoke about Jesus' encounter with the man born blind in John's gospel and explored where we as disciples find home, how we get there and how we can help others to discover it.

This Sunday Wayne spoke about Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well and how when we come home to a relationship with Jesus, we are filled and sustained by the Spirit, we are freed from the stories that contain us and we can see the world differently.