The Shore Community Church

Acceptance, Stability and Forward Motion

This week Elisa shared from Hebrews 10 in a message entitled 'Acceptance, Stability and Forward Motion'. What are the pitfalls and untruths that can negatively impact our peace and relationships with God and others?

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When God Speaks, Act Now

Wrapping up our Acts series (for the moment!) Sylvia shares from chapter 12 including Peter's miraculous escape from prison and asks how we might take inspiration from this in our lives.

(Due to technical problems the worship hasn't been included this week, apologies!)

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A Tale of Two Churches - Act Now!

The first half of Acts Chapter 11 is based in the church in Jerusalem, where Nick highlights how the 'us and them' mentality permeates humankind and much of the Church today. In contrast, we also consider the church in Antioch in the 2nd half of the chapter - a church that does amazing things by keeping in rhythm with God. What can we learn from these two churches about how we can be a Holy Spirit driven community?

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Peter Shares the Gospel - Act Now!

Continuing our series in Acts, we look at the second half of Peter’s encounter with Cornelius in Ch10. This gives us an insight into how Peter chooses to ‘share the gospel’: what he does say, and crucially what he doesn’t. Jamie considers how this might inform the way we go about the task of evangelism.

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Harvest

For our Harvest family service we were visited by Paul from Bognor Foodbank. Also, we looked at the teaching about ‘gleaning’ found in the book of Leviticus, and explored the kind of spirituality that it reveals.

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Walls Come Tumbling Down - Act Now!

Chapter 10 of Acts describes Peter's heavenly vision and meeting with Cornelius; a pivotal moment in that book, but also in the history of the early church. However, as Jamie explores, the Bible is a 'living word' and the principles here may also be profoundly important in our understanding of ourselves. We have a tendency to create categories: boxes and walls to divide up our sense of the world. The story here reminds us we should be very cautious before assuming that God is contained by such things.

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Hope from the Shadows - Act Now!

This week Richard wraps up chapter 9 of Acts, where the narrative shifts back to Peter. In two short anecdotes we see how God is manifest in everything from miraculous healing to everyday kindness; the Kingdom of God is charactised by Hope!

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We are all Made of Stories - Act Now!

This week we return to our series looking through the book of Acts. Jamie picks things up in the second half of chapter 9, which contains some dramatic stories and anecdotes from the life of the early church. We use this as an opportunity to see how these stories resonate with our own personal stories: The Bible is a 'living word' and is one of the ways that God can bring revelation, understanding and healing into our lives today.

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Gandalf and the Gospel?

Reflecting on his summer holiday reading, Jamie explores how we can discover powerful gospel themes in our surrounding cultural works, and reflects on the importance of this for sharing the message of Jesus.

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Which Route/Root?

In this message Dave explores the connections between routing and rooting as we seek to follow the God who reveals himself to us. There’s an element of searching, ‘rooting about’ evident as Jesus teaches us to “Seek first the Kingdom of God and righteousness…” Alongside this, we must also consider where our ‘roots’ are, and which ‘route’ we are travelling. All of this requires an intimacy with the Holy Spirit…

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