How should we respond when God wants to bring change in our church and in our lives? Exodus 18 gives us some excellent examples to learn from: the humility of Moses, the wisdom of Jethro, the faith of the Israelites, and the responsibility of the judges.

Unexpected battles (or attacks) are part of the Christian life. God wants us to know in our hearts that He is the only one who can save us, He is the true source of our strength, and He is the one who sustains and shields us. We learn this when like Moses we lift up our hands in prayer in response to the battles we face.

God did not design the Christian life to be sustained by stored-up control, but by daily dependence — receiving from Him today what we need for today. As He taught Israel through manna, and as Jesus declares Himself the Bread of Life, we are invited to trust the “who” over the “what,” letting go of tomorrow’s anxieties and gathering fresh grace each morning.

The Israelites in Exodus often seem to have very bad memories – why is that, and what can we learn from the ways God gave them to keep remember what He had done, who He was, and what He had promised them?

As we seek to keep in step with God we, like the Israelites, will find ourselves led into the wilderness of trial and challenge. In the midst of these seasons, we can trust that God is always at work for our good and His glory. We must not allow bitterness and cynicism to take hold, instead clinging to the God who is our provider and our healer.

od calls his redeemed people to be a singing people—from the shores of the Red Sea in Exodus 15 to the final song of Moses and the Lamb in Revelation—because praise is the natural language of those who have been saved. As we follow Jesus, worship isn’t an add-on or a mood-setter, but a Spirit-given response that shapes our identity, unites us as God’s family, and keeps us moving with him.

Our new series gets underway by looking at how God saved His people from slavery in Egypt, and how He saves people today from slavery to sin. As we remember His saving work, our love and confidence in Him can grow, and we will joyfully follow Him wherever He leads us.

Dan,  Chris, and Luke set out what’s ahead this year for King’s Church as we continue to seek God’s glory and spread His gospel.

We potentially have saved the best ’til last in this series, as Dan looks at John 1 and what it means that Jesus came to Earth and made it possible for us to become children of God.

Luke looks at how God uses fasting to change His people and involve them in great kingdom breakthroughs. He also gives practical advice for those just starting out in fasting.

Raphael teaches from the story of Joshua as he encourages us to equip ourselves with biblical essentials for the year ahead.

Luke shares a short message at our Christmas carol service about the amazing truth that we get to both know God and be known by God because God became human and lived among us.

This message explores how Christians can confidently face opposition, resting in the assurance that Jesus has already overcome the world. It’s a call to live boldly in that victory day by day.

In John 15, Jesus tells us that He is the true vine, and His disciples are the branches. Luke looks at why Jesus uses this image and what its implication are for us.

Karen looks at the passage in  John 15, where Jesus tells us that He is the true vine, and His disciples are the branches.

This message traces how Jesus breathes new-creation life into His followers and fills the church with the Spirit as God’s living presence. It invites believers to receive the Spirit afresh—whether in seasons of abundance or desert—as Jesus pours out His life like living water.

Jesus makes an astonishing promise to His followers that they will do “great works” than He did. Sam helps us to understand what that means, and how we can work with Jesus to do this in our lives and as a church.

Ariane teaches us about Jesus’ command to love one another. Jesus washed his disciples feet: demonstrating his love for his disciples and modelling how they are to love one another.

John’s account of Jesus walking on water reveals Him as the Light in our darkness, the King over creation, and the Peace in our chaos — the great “I AM” who comes to us in life’s storms.

The story invites us to stop striving, welcome Him into our “boat,” and experience the calm and safety that only His presence brings.

At a baptism service, Guy looked at how two men – Philip and an Ethiopian official – “just happened” to meet on a desert road. Their conversation is recorded in Acts 8:26-40 and closed with a thrilling baptism. The Spirit of God makes arrangements so that everyone can hear and respond to the Good News of Jesus.

 

In his message, Guy referred to areas of the world which still have very limited access to the Good News of Jesus. He quoted information from https://joshuaproject.net/ , an excellent resource for data on people groups with the least access to the Gospel.

The raising of Lazarus from the dead is not just a spectacular miracle but a wonderful demonstration of the love of God. Going through the story slowly helps us to see what Jesus was doing then, and gives us faith for what He is doing now, too.

Jesus’ healing of a man born blind points to the greater miracle of spiritual sight and salvation being given by Jesus to those who believe in him. As John Newton famously wrote in the hymn “Amazing Grace” centuries later, “I was blind but now I see”.

Bob mentioned how important it was for us as beleivers to share our story of salvation with others when we are asked. Here’s a 1-minute video on how we can all be ready to share our own story.

Colin preaches at our North Community on the feeding of the 5000 detailed in John 6.

John 6 shows that Jesus miraculously meets people’s physical hunger to reveal a deeper truth — that only He can satisfy the hunger of the soul. He is the Bread of Life, inviting us not just to believe in Him once but to continually receive His life, presence, and provision in every season.

The next sign that Jesus performs in John’s gospel is an amazing miracle, and a shocking interruption. Jesus is still doing miracles today, and still interrupting lives. How will we respond to Him?

Dan talks about how we can find hope in Jesus and bring our burdens and anxieties to Him.

Chris shares about how when Jesus healed the official’s son in John 4, He revealed His urgent desire to be known, His commitment to growing even the smallest seeds of faith, and His kindness in doing for us more than we could ask or imagine.

Luke shares about how Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding shows us that He is fulfilment of God’s promises to save His beloved people, shows us what God is like, and challenges us to put all our faith in Him.

Jesus transformed our ideas of what rest looks like, showing how it frees us and gives us life. But in order to rest like Jesus, we need to learn to trust in him, even in the times when we don’t feel like resting.

Through engaging in pioneer mission, God will make a mark through us in this city.  He will do this despite our felt weakness.

Jesus took on the nature of a servant and showed us that serving is more about our hearts, than what we do. As we follow his example, the marks or characteristics of a true servant will grow in our lives too.

Chris shares how we can follow Jesus’ example of living a life of simplicity.

Karen shares about how we can be joyful like Jesus and choose to bring more joy into our lives.

Will continues our series on being more like Jesus by looking at Jesus’ humility.

Jesus’s followers can only do what He told them to do if they have received His Holy Spirit. Luke shows us how the Spirit wants to fill us as individuals and as a church community, drawing us closer to God and sending us out into the world.

Raphael encourages us to model Jesus in our lives as we pray.

Guy recognises that sometimes we are timid or scared, and then shows how the Father will give us boldness to follow Jesus.

Sam speaks about what it means for Jesus to be a friend to us, and how that affects our friendships with others.

Cat looks at how obeying God is less about following rules and more about mirroring Jesus in how he only did what he saw the Father doing.

Stephen talks  about how God calls us to reflect his heart for the poor, in reflection of Jesus, who laid down everything for us.

The Christian life must be built on the unshakeable foundation of grace, not performance — we are saved, changed, and sustained by what God gives, not what we achieve. As we walk by the Spirit, not by the law, we grow in joyful partnership with God, becoming more like Jesus through His power, not our effort.

It is God’s intention to conform us to the image of His Son, and He tells us to work with Him on this. Luke starts our summer series by looking at five important principles that will help us do this.

Colin looks at why ‘forgiving ourselves’ is so hard, and steps we can take to move forward.

Dan continues the `Built to Last’ series, looking at being a people who pray.

Because God has forgiven us, we are called to forgive others—freely, daily, and even when it’s hard. Forgiveness isn’t about excusing hurt but about releasing it to God, so we can live in peace, healing, and freedom.

God is reconciling all things to Himself through His Son: forgiveness is a major way in which He does this. Matthew 18 uses the image of debt to help us understand this, and Luke gives us some practical advice on how to confess our sins.

Dan Hudson looks at being a prophetic people.

Dave Holden continues looking at being an apostolic people.

Dave Holden looks at what it means to be an apostolic people.

Dave Holden sets the scene for the King’s Church Weekend Away in 2025.

Raphael unpacks the hope found in 1 Corinthians 15, affirming the resurrection of Jesus and the promise of a new, incorruptible body for all who are in Him. It encourages us to stand firm in this truth, living as faithful servants with hearts anchored in the hope of glory and hands ready for the work of the Lord, knowing our labour is never in vain.

Chris continues the series `Built To Last” by encouraging us to build all that we do on the foundation of God’s word to us, the Bible.

The story of Mary’s encounter with the risen Jesus teaches us that He meets us in our sadness, loves to show us who He is, and commission us into His purposes.

The story of Thomas’s encounter with the risen Lord Jesus helps us to understand how Jesus treats us when we doubt, and how we can grow our faith.

Guy starts our series `Resurrection People’ with the story of the followers of Jesus on the road to Emmaus. As they were disheartened after the events of the cruxifixion, Jesus himself drew near to them, opened their eyes to the truth in Scripture, and brought them true hope – and He’s still doing that today!

Dan concluded our long-running Romans series with Paul’s final exhortations to protect the gospel, partner with others in declaring it, and praise God for it.

Karen continues our preaching series at King’s Church Edinburgh North Community, looking at the characteristics that a grace-filled community displays.

In Romans 16, Paul greets many individuals in the Roman Church. This list of names reveals God’s love for people and shows that Jesus is building a church characterised by unity in diversity, teamwork, and genuine love for one another.

From Romans 8, Raphael helps us to see we can have confidence in God for our lives now and for the future at three levels: confidence in God’s workmanship, confidence in God being for us, and confidence in the unfailing love of God.

Paul tells the Romans about some of the travelling he has done, and where he hopes to go in the future, in Romans 15. In doing so, he reveals the ever-expanding nature of God’s Kingdom, and invites us to go on the journeys of faith that God has set out for us.

The book of Romans teaches us that God is extra-ordinarily generous to us in Christ and that the gospel changes our hearts to make us extra-ordinarily generous like him, enabling the gospel to progress, the poor to be cared for and for churches to be planted.

Paul prays a very big prayer for all believers in Romans 15:13, inviting us to ask the Holy Spirit to work powerfully in our lives.

In Romans 9, Paul looks at God’s choosing of His people, and what that means for everyone else. In doing so, he raises complicated and emotive questions, so Luke led this seminar on a Sunday evening to address these issues.

A handout containing Luke’s notes and suggested further reading is also available below.

Karen teaches from Romans 15, helping us to see how being peacemakers, serving and building up others, and being encourage through reading the Bible helps us glorify God and build His church.

The church is not just a gathering but a sent people, built on the foundation of Jesus, the apostles, and prophets, empowered by the Holy Spirit to carry out His mission. As we step into this apostolic calling, we align with God’s purpose to see His kingdom expand, transforming lives and communities for generations to come.

In view of God’s mercy, our worship is not just sining but a whole-life response-how we treat others, serve passionately, react with Christlike grace, and shine as a witness the world. True worship flows from the revelation of mercy, transforming us to live sacrificially and wholeheartedly for God.

Stephen leads us through the next part of our study in Romans, encouraging us that our whole lives are to be given as an act of worship in response to God’s mercy.

How are Christians meant to understand and apply the promises God made to His people in the Old Testament today? In Romans 11, Paul shows us through general principles and a specific issue. Above all, he tells all of us to humbly trust God and celebrate being part of the united people of God, saved by Jesus

The gospel is good news, and when you have good news it’s worth sharing.  As Paul paints his picture of the good news in Romans, in this passage in Chapter 10 he challenges believers to be speaking about this good news, with the promise that those who hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord will be saved!

We believe that God is calling us in 2025 to “Step out, and step in”. Following apostolic and prophetic input, we are taking steps to see congregations of King’s established in multiple gathered communities. Our hope this year is to start two new King’s communities, one in north Edinburgh and one in Midlothian. There will also be plenty happening in our existing community too!

The meeting between Jesus and Zacchaeus teaches the Good News that though we are “lost” as a result of our wandering, we are still loved by God. Turning around to Jesus will result in entering God’s inner circle.

Note – near the beginning of this recording we hear some real good news, that the brother of someone in our congregation who was a prisoner in Iran has been set free!

Terry Virgo takes us through the call of Moses to help us see what might be holding us back from stepping into freedom and the fullness of what God is calling us to.

As we begin 2025, let’s recalibrate not just to a new calendar year but to the God who is making all things new and holds our past, present, and future in His hands. God is ABLE to do immeasurably more, God is FAITHFUL to keep us, and God is SOVEREIGN as King eternal—let these truths shape our year.

The sudden interruptions in the Christmas story are just the start of Jesus demanding that we allow Him to do for us what we desperately need Him to.

The gospel brings about three powerful assurances for every believer: assured identity as Gods children, assured hope in suffering, and assured help in weakness.

Colin continues our series on Romans by leading us over the rocky ridge of chapter 7 to the marvellous heights of chapter 8, highlighting the importance of the Law in knowing sin and the transition from Law to Grace.

Stephen continues our series on the book of Romans with a look at the start of chapter 6. The impact of Jesus’ death and resurrection doesn’t start when we get to heaven.  It starts now.  When we become Christians we move from a point where sin is the master to complete freedom in Christ.

In Romans 5, we find that the results of our justification are peace with God, ongoing access to God’s grace, and unbreakable hope, even in the midst of suffering.

As Jesus steps into our story He invites us to step into His. By faith we are called to leave everything behind & follow Him & live for Him alone.

Jesus offers eternal life and life to the full, but how are we supposed to access it? The book of Romans turns to the story of Abraham to find an answer.

Fear, guilt, and shame are massive forces in all human cultures – and the gospel offers transformative hope for all these things. Romans 3 shows us that Jesus redeems us from sin’s power, atones for our sin, and gives us His righteousness.

Paul starts his letter to the Romans by introducing himself, his Master, the Romans themselves, and the gospel.

The wrath of God is the “problem” that the gospel solves. Dan shows us that this sobering message is true for everyone, but so is the offer of salvation in Jesus.

The climactic story of Abraham’s faith is also about the greatest show of God’s love. Luke takes us through both those stories and encourages us to consider what sacrifices God is calling us to make in view of His mercy.

In this message, Dan explores God’s covenant with Abraham, focusing on the significance of circumcision as a sign of faith and how it points to the New Covenant, where believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit. It encourages Christians to trust in God’s timing, embrace the markers of the New Covenant (baptism and communion), and walk in obedience, knowing that God is faithful even when we falter.

Rachel showed us God’s promise to pour out His Spirit on all His people in Joel 2, and how that has now been fulfilled. With the help of others, she shared how God can speak to us today for the good other people.

Many people are troubled by the idea of God’s judgement but Chris shows us how it is right, comforting, and good news.

Chris continues our series on Abraham and Sarah as he looks at the time Abraham chose to intervene in a chaotic, risky situation, having faith that God would be with him and bring about the victory.

Raphael shows us from the story of Abraham that no matter the ups and downs we go through, God will fulfil His promises to us. This is a faith adventure!

In this message, Dan looks at Abraham’s vulnerability and fluctuating faith, showing his honest dialogue and trust in God.  The unusual covenant God makes with Abraham in this story encourages us to trust God’s promises and rest in His work, not relying on personal efforts but on God’s grace and faithfulness.

Our new preaching series begins at the start of Abraham and Sarah’s journey with a plan that doesn’t make earthly sense, and a promise of God’s presence.

Karen continues our series `Encounters with God’ by looking at God’s encouragement.

Simon Elliott, from Everyday Church, joins us to continue our series on Encounters with God. He looks at the story of Jonah,  a man whose view of God was too small, whose identity was in the wrong place, and towards whom God had amazing compassion.

Raphael continues our series with a look at God’s call to Jeremiah, reflecting on how God calls different people in different ways; it is by God’s grace that we were made, called, and given all we need to fulfil His purpose for our lives.

The life of the prophet Hosea is a dramatic illustration of God’s love and faithfulness even when His people are unfaithful to Him. It also points us to Jesus, the bridegroom who redeems and rescues His bride, the church.

Following the UK’s general election, Luke showed us the different views Christians can have on being involved in politics, and the way God shows all of us to relate to rulers.

The prophet Jeremiah suffered so much because of his obedience to God that he felt like God had deceived him. Luke looks at how Jeremiah’s response is still a model for bringing our pain to God and encountering His faithfulness. (The song Luke refers to at the end is “Come As You Are” by Crowder.)

Following the UK’s general election, Luke showed us the different views Christians can have on being involved in politics, and the way God shows all of us to relate to rulers.

Stephen teaches from Joel 2: 1–27 on how God is a God of restoration; gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love.

Zechariah 3 reveals God as a righteous judge who loves to clothe his people in righteousness. Having been clothed by God, we find that he has restored us to the glorious role that we were made for.

When we make God’s priorities our priorities, we find fulfilment and satisfaction – but how do you actually do that?

Tamsyn Radmall from Home For Good showed us how we can show the power of God’s transforming love, as seen in Ezekiel 47, to care-experienced children.

(Unfortunately only the ending of Tamsyn’s opening story, about her sister and brother-in-law sneaking food into a posh hotel during their honeymoon as the meals in the hotel restaurant were prohibitively expensive, is recorded here. You can see the full story on YouTube.)

Mike concludes our 2024 Weekend Away with a message on how we, Jesus’ church, are called to display His splendour so that others will see and know Him.

Dan continues on the message of Isaiah 61:3, encouraging us that God will continue His work in us as a planting of the Lord through to its completion, for His splendour.

Mike McLeister from Hope Church Borders speaks on what the church of the future will look like, from Isaiah 61: 3.

Dan sets the scene for the weekend away in this short introductory message on Isaiah 61: 1–2.

Ezekiel’s encounter with God was overwhelming for him and can be confusing for us. Luke explores what Ezekiel was trying to describe, and how God manifests His glory now.

Paul’s prayer for the Romans is a good way to conclude this preaching series, with its promises of joy, peace, and the Holy Spirit for those who are hoping in Him.

The New Testament insists that believers must live with an eternal perspective. This gives us purpose and perseverance, and transforms how we relate to possessions and people.

Laying up treasures for ourselves in heaven is something Jesus clearly tells us to do. Colin looks at what this means, why this really matters, and how we might approach doing it.

The future for believers is very bright, far better than now. Luke shows us what is going to happen to every follower of Jesus after they die, and encourages us to make this the focus of our hope.

When Jesus returns, there will be a day of reckoning. He will judge all the people of the Earth. This message studies the reality, finality, personality, visibility, and universality of that judgement, and how we find safety on that day: Jesus.

The return of Jesus was the central hope of the New Testament Christians, but this is often not the case in churches today. Luke explores why this is the case, and how we can have a better understanding of what is going to happen, when it’s going to happen, and why it is such good news.

Our starting point for this series looking at the return of Jesus is to study the Ascension. The Ascension isn’t simply the end point for Jesus’ earthly ministry, but the start of His heavenly ministry on behalf of His people.

On Easter Sunday 2024 we heard from Dr Kenneth David-West from the African and Carribbean Christian Fellowship from Glasgow.

Dan gives an update on church finances and then encourages us to give generously and live contentedly from Paul’s final words in his letter to the Philippians.

How do we grow as disciples of Jesus? Paul gives the Philippian believers advice about what and who to think about and learn from.

Raphael continues our series in the Letter to the Philippians, looking at Philippians 4: 4–7.

Our greatest goal as followers of Jesus must be to get to know Jesus better. Christian maturity correlates to devotion to Christ. In these verses, Paul helps us see Jesus as better than religion, more valuable than anything we can know and worthy of our greatest pursuit.

God changes people’s lives, and in this passage we can see how He changed the lives of Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus, and how He used them to bless each other and others.

Growing in godliness starts with meeting Jesus, receiving His grace, knowing His love, and experiencing His power at work in our lives. But each of us have a responsibility to diligently nurture the seed God has planted in our lives through obedient action.

On Vision Sunday the elders shared from Isaiah 61. God has called King’s church to be a “Planting of the Lord for the display of his splendour”, growing in maturity and fruitfulness here in Edinburgh and planting out new churches and congregations across Scotland and the world.

Luke tries to help us see a bit more of the glory of Christ in His humble obedience, and challenges us to think how this should shape how we respond to the people around us.

What does it mean to live a life worthy of the gospel, as a citizen of God’s Kingdom? Karen shows us the power of unity in Christ, the importance of supporting one another, and the surprising truth about suffering for Jesus.

Paul makes several statements in Philippians 1:12-26 that might seem strange to us. Luke looks at what these are and why Paul thought that way, and challenges us to imitate Paul as he imitated Jesus.

Dan looked at the themes of partnership and prayer in Philippians 1:1–11

Mary’s encounter with the Angel Gabriel gives us a wonderful insight into the good news of the gospel. The news is surprising, lifechanging, freely given. And it invites a response from us.

One of the many prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament starts with a hopeless scene of fallen trees. What does this have to do with Christmas? Listen here to find out.

Chris brought The Better Story series to a close by looking at Sabbath rest. God himself modelled rest, and part of our purpose as humans is to enjoy rest with Him. Jesus came to lead us back into eternal rest with God in the future and to give us a taste of true Sabbath rest now.

God made the world, sustains the world, and has a plan to recreate the world as a home for his family forever. How should we live in the present in a way that cares for God’s creation?

The Bible tells us that creation speaks of God’s glory, and that God will speak to us through His creation. Luke explores why we are sometimes hard of hearing, and how we can remedy this.

The Bible describes the church as being like the family of God, which is more than a nice metaphor – it should have a practical and spiritual impact on your life.

God made men and women to display His image and live in dependent harmony with each other, but sin has ruined this. Jen shows us the poetry of God’s design, and the hope of redemption that Jesus brings.

Marriage in our culture has many different meanings. What does Jesus mean by marriage and why does it matter that all Christians know what he teaches?

Work is not a result of the fall but a key way in which humans live as the image of God. Raphael helps us to see the truth of this and consider how we can do work to God’s glory.

Adrian Holloway visited us and share a message of hope and healing.

Being made in the image of God is the incredible privilege of every human being. Luke shows us what that means for our identity and purpose, and we see how Jesus is the ultimate image-bearer who transforms His people into His likeness despite their sin.

God wants nothing less for His people than that they be filled with His fullness! Dan explains how it’s the work of the Holy Spirit today to give us intimate access to God, creativity, boldness, and strength.

The Church is the fulfilment of God’s plan to have a people from every tribe and tongue and nation, with whom He dwells. Chris shows us how this plan starts right at the beginning of the Bible, and encourages us to value what God values.

Dave Holden was visiting us again this week, and he shared what Jesus shows us about being people who are full of both grace and truth.

We start our new preaching series by looking at the four parts of the biblical story: creation, rebellion, redemption, new creation.

We finish our series on Joshua by thinking about how God told Israel to remember His faithfulness as they looked forward to conquering the land – and then we do the same by sharing some of the events we have planned for the term ahead.

 

You can find out more about our autumn events here.

Karen showed us how God’s faithfulness means that He keeps His promises and gives His people rest, no matter how long it takes.

In Joshua 15 verse 63, we learn that Jerusalem had not yet been captured, which is very significant given how important Jerusalem became.  Here Luke speaks about how David achieved this much later (2 Samuel 5:6:7), and how we can learn from David’s faith as we face strongholds today.

 

(The recording starts a little after Luke began speaking, which may make for a bit of initial confusion – sorry about that! The complete message is available on our YouTube page.)

Stephen continues our series in Joshua with the story of the tribe of Joseph; a people asking for more but then struggling to believe and take hold of what God has promised them. Stephen shares his own experience of believing God and taking ground, and encourages us to have faith for where God can take us.

Dan continues our series in Joshua with a look at Caleb; an example of persevering faith, a refusal to give up believing God and a determination to be involved in what God is doing.

During the preach, Dan quoted from Jerry Bridges on “How to preach the gospel to yourself every day”.  If you’d like to pray through the scriptures he references,  this blog post is helpful.

Raphael continues our series in the book of Joshua  looking at the role of Israel as a nation then, and the role of the church now, in fulfilling God’s purposes.

On Sunday, Lydia continued our preaching series on More Than Conquerers talking about The Daughters of Zelophehad, how they took hold of their inheritance and what we can learn from them.

Our series from the book of Joshua continues on the power of sin and why disobedience matters so much to God.

The Ark of the Covenant was at the heart of everything in the life of ancient Israel, including the conquest of Jericho. In the same way, we must prioritise and cherish the presence of God in our lives.

The reading list that Luke mentions is available here, and more information about Running Partners can be found here.

We’re all on a journey of faith as individuals and as a church family together. In the story of Rahab in Joshua 2, we see that the journey of faith begins with God’s invitation to unexpected people, that it is grounded in who God is and what He’s done, and that it requires a radical response from us.

God’s people always face opposition, but Jesus overcame so that we could overcome. Mike McLeister shows us how God gave Nehemiah grace to do this.

Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land makes for difficult reading, so it’s important that we know what really happened and why. Along with explaining this, Luke looks at the parallels and differences between the mission Joshua was given, and the one that we have been given.

Dan starts our new series by focusing on the character of Joshua, and the lessons God taught him in preparation for the key role he had to play.

Phil and Sarah Varley round off our 2023 Weekend Away with this message.

Here’s the talk from the Saturday night of our 2023 Weekend Away, with Phil Varley.

Our 2023 Weekend Away began with this talk from Sarah Varley.

Dan wraps up our People of Praise series looking at being baptised in the Spirit means, and how the work of the Holy Spirit fuels our praise.

Psalm 95 is a great encouragement to us to be a people of praise. Dara looks at what we can learn from it, and apply this in our times of worship together and by ourselves.

God has called us to be a people who joyfully praise him. God is a joyful God, and the gospel is joyful good news! God’s word directs us to deliberately find joy in God, and the Holy Spirit gives us joy when we lack it. Therefore scripture encourages us  to express outwardly the joy he gives with our hearts and hands and voices.

This is the third session of the Grow Together course from Saturday 29th April, with Peter Anderson speaking on `How to Make Disciples’.

This is the second session of the Grow Together course from Saturday 29th April, with Peter Anderson speaking on `Discipleship and Church Planting’.

This is the first session of the Grow Together course from Saturday 29th April, with Peter Anderson speaking on `Leadership Faith’.

Fear is frequently used positively in the Bible to describe how people respond to God; Luke looks at what that means and why it isn’t as scary an idea as we might think.

Laura Powell summarises John Flavel’s book, “Triumphing Over Sinful Fears”, here.

Quotes used from Michael Reeve’s book Rejoice and Tremble: “The nature of the living God means that the fear which pleases him is not a grovelling, shrinking fear. He is no tyrant. It is an ecstasy of love and joy that senses how overwhelmingly kind and magnificent, good and true God is, and that therefore leans on him in staggered praise and faith.” (p.67) “[Fear] is not the dread of sinners before a holy Judge. It is not the awe of creatures before their tremendous Creator. It is the overwhelmed devotion of children marvelling at the kindness and righteousness and glory and complete magnificence of the Father.” (p.101)

Bible passages that Luke read:

Psalm 34
Psalm 66
Psalm 96
Psalm 103
Psalm 146
Isaiah 6:1-8
Luke 5:1-11
Luke 7:36-50
Luke 19:37-40 and Matthew 21:14-16
Matthew 28:1-10
Hebrews 12:18-24, 28-29
Revelation 1:10, 12-18
Revelation 4:2 – 5:14

In this opening message Dan explores what it means to be a people of praise. It speaks to our deepest longing for identity, sacrifice, authenticity and heart.

The final message in our series from Romans was preached on Easter Sunday, looking at what Paul says about how Jesus’s resurrection transforms everything for us.

Raphael looks at the subject of Righteousness as part of our series on the goodness of the Gospel.

What does it mean to “be saved”? In this message we explore how the gospel rescues human beings from all the effects of the fall in Eden. Jesus saves us from the power, penalty and pollution of sin – covering our past failure, present struggle and future judgment to come.

Romans 3 says that we have been redeemed by Jesus – that means that we have been set free from sin. Christians are called to walk in that freedom.

The word “grace” appears 23 times in Paul’s letter to the Romans and it is foundational for all that Jesus has done for us. Chris explained, from Romans 5, why we all need the undeserved gift of God’s grace, what it means to receive that grace and what it looks like for you to stand in the grace of God.

God’s adoption of believers has been described as the climax of all that He does for us in Christ. Luke explains what Paul had in mind when he used the word in Romans 8:14-17, and looks at three consequences of adoption: assurance, access, and action.

David finishes his psalm with more confident statements of God’s goodness to him. We’re invited to trust God whatever is happening, and to look to a hope that goes beyond even David’s vision and far beyond this life.

Luke preaches on our final part of Psalm 23.

Psalm 23 verse 5 reminds us of the victory of God, which means that His people are ultimately safe from any opposition, and the recipients of incredible blessings from Him. And it ultimately points us to the grace of God, who has changed His people from being enemies to being His children.

Chris continues our look into Psalm 23 by considering the verses “He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” 

This brief line contains all Christian hope. Luke explains what the two Hebrew words in it mean and how Jesus fulfilled them as the Great Shepherd of our souls.

The first two verses of Psalm 23 introduce God as our Shepherd; here Dan looks at how the promises that we lack nothing, can lie down in safety, and are led help us grow in faith, rest well, and keep following God.

In this final episode of our Meals with Jesus series, we savour the wonder of the of the new covenant available to us through the Lord’s Supper.

In Luke 24, the resurrected Jesus encountered two of His followers on the road to Emmaus, culminating in a dramatic moment of revelation around the meal table. Before He opened their eyes to who He was, Jesus stepped into their disappointment and opened the Scriptures to them, leading them to invite Him in.

Luke looks at what happens when hospitality goes wrong, and shows us what matters most to Jesus.

The story of Jesus meeting Zaccheus centres on an invitation and a meal.  The result is heart transformation, generosity, and a greater understanding of the largeness of the mission of Jesus to seek and save the lost.

As Christians we must enjoy the hospitality of Jesus for ourselves – the gospel is good news! His example teaches us what true hospitality looks like; initiative-taking , simple, and loving.

Luke continues our Meals With Jesus series by looking at one of the most famous meals in the Bible to show us that Jesus involves His followers in doing what He wants to do.

This recording is from the second session at the Grow: Together event with Terry Virgo.

Session 1 and Session 2 are also available.

This  event was part of our Grow leadership training course; you can find out more about that here .

This recording is from the second session at the Grow: Together event with Terry Virgo.

Session 1 and Session 3 are also available.

This  event was part of our Grow leadership training course; you can find out more about that here .

This recording is from the first session at the Grow: Together event with Terry Virgo.

Session 2 and Session 3 are also available.

This  event was part of our Grow leadership training course; you can find out more about that here .

Karis continues our Meals with Jesus series looking at the story of Jesus going to eat at Simon the Pharisee’s house – how does this story show us what makes a good, true welcome?

 

The song Karis included at the end of her message is called `Jubilee‘ by Maverick City Music (feat. Naomi Raine & Bryan & Katie Torwalt).

Luke begins our new preaching series, Meal With Jesus, by looking at what meals meant in Jewish culture, and how Jesus used them to connect with unexpected people,  by studying Levi’s feast from Luke 5:27-32.

Here are the quotes Luke mentions during his preach:

Definition of hospitality: “using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbours, and neighbours family of God” (p.31, Rosaria Butterfield, The Gospel Comes With A House Key).

God spoke prophetically to us through two members of our church. He spoke about expanding our tents, preparing us for growth, and that we would even see Him work in people who have absolutely no interest in God. This was followed with: “I just felt like as a church that if we’re going to get ready to enlarge our tents that pretty much means being ready to disrupt a little bit of the daily routine and let people in, just have an ‘Open door, don’t worry if the dishes are in the sink’ policy. God wants to extend his family and that means having people over… [We should ask God to give us] a prophetic gift that we know who to invite when, and when to open the door. Lord would you make us to be openhearted, open-door people. Would you enlarge your family through those normal relationships, of who lives next door and who’s down the road, and who’s in my gym class…”

“Even more so than in the Old Testament … Judaism viewed mealtimes as important occasions for drawing boundaries. … Fundamental among those principles was the notion that unclean people and objects constantly threatened to corrupt God’s holy, elect nation and individuals within it. Like literal physical disease, we may think of ritual impurity as contagious.” (p.93, Craig L. Blomberg, Contagious Holiness)

“On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken. It will be said on that day, ‘Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.’” (Isaiah 25:6-9)

“In post-Christian communities, your words can be only as strong as your relationships. Your best weapon is an open door, a set table, a fresh pot of coffee, and a box of Kleenex for the tears that spill.” (p. 40, Rosaria Butterfield, The Gospel Comes With A House Key)

“If you routinely share meals and you have a passion for Jesus, then you’ll be doing mission. It’s not that meals save people. People are saved through the gospel message. But meals will create natural opportunities to share that message in a context that resonates powerfully with what you’re saying.” (p.94, Tim Chester, A Meal With Jesus)

Butterfield again: “Christians are not fearful hoarders; we are fearless givers.” (p. 210, Rosaria Butterfield, The Gospel Comes With A House Key)

“The goal is always to showcase God’s generous, big-hearted welcome and to offer his invitation to eternal life. As those who have received grace, we want to share it with others. So when you invite a neighbour or colleague to spend time with you and they don’t accept, don’t shrug it off with an ‘Oh well, I tried!’ attitude. Remember that there is something important at stake. That will help you want to pursue further opportunities to show friendship.” (p.73, Carolyn Lacey, Extraordinary Hospitality (For Ordinary People))

Dan shares the last preach in the Great Commission People series: I am with you always.

Jesus includes baptism in His great commission to His followers: why? Luke looks at some of the imagery involved in baptism and encourages us to expect to be baptising more people.

Dan continues our series on The Great Commission, looking at the command to preach the gospel in all nations.

You can see the video interview with Daniel at our resources page for this preaching series.

To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus. We continue our Great Commission People series as Chris looks at how we  have been commissioned to call unbelievers to become disciples, and to teach believers how to follow Jesus.

Dan starts our Great Commission People series by looking at the basis of our confidence to go and carry out the commission that Jesus gave His followers.

More resources for this Great Commission People series can be found here.

Chris completes our Explore Membership series by digging in to what it means to be a member of a church committed to showing God’s love to one another, to the communities we’re part of, and to the rest of the world.

Membership at King’s means experiencing Jesus in community; Luke shares what this means by looking at how we experience Jesus as Saviour, Lord, and Head.

In the opening session of Explore Membership, Dan Hudson explains how membership of the local church is a privilege and necessity for every Christian, weaving us in to God’s story and the story of His church.

Luke concludes our series on Ruth by looking at how the whole story is God’s story, and what it means for us to be in a story that He is writing.

Prayer is God’s idea! It shows us God’s kindness – His willingness to meet with us and listen to us. Here Raphael looks at the prayers spoken over Ruth and Boaz, and the answer God gave to them.

There is so much we can learn from Boaz about how to be men and women who faithfully follow and obey God. Through Boaz’s role as Ruth’s redeemer, we see what God himself is like and what he has done for each one of us.

As we continue our series in the book of Ruth, Luke focuses on the place the story happens at the end of chapter 2. It’s a place where Ruth found grace, a place of community where God is known; we all need a place like that, and we can all be part of providing such a place for others.

Dan continues our series on Ruth by taking a closer look at the kindness of God in adversity and tragedy in Naomi’s bittersweet life.

As we continue our series in the book of Ruth, Karis helps us think of God’s kindness; how we can see it in our own lives, and how we should respond to it so that others can be blessed by it.

We start our series on the book of Ruth looking at the choices made by Elimelech at a hard time for God’s people. Luke set the scene for the story and reminded us that leaving God is never a good idea but that there is always a way home.

(The songs which followed this message when it was preached, which are not on the recording, are Runaway by Jess Ray, and Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Thomas Chisholm.)

If you are looking for Bible passages to read and use to help with repentance, try Deuteronomy 30:1-10, Psalm 51,  Psalm 103, Hosea 2:14-3:5, Luke 15, John 21:15-19. 

The Ascension of Jesus to the right hand of God begins a whole new era for the church – salvation, the Holy Spirit poured out, and gifts given in abundance  – that He might fill the universe with his glory.

How does the Holy Spirit empower us to care for and reach the poor?

Chris looks at how the Holy Spirit transforms all our relationships, enabling us to encourage one another and be the means of spurring one another on in our relationship with God.

Peter Johnson looks at how God’s promised presence and power filling our day-to-day working lives can come through prayerfulness, listening to the Holy Spirit, and the power of our own testimony.

God wants His children to know that He loves them, and He sends us His Holy Spirit to do this. Luke looks at four ways by which the Spirit does this, described in Romans 8:14-17.

In this message from an All-Age Service, Dan speaks on how the Holy Spirit unites us.

Raphael Mrode continues our Holy Spirit series as he speaks on how the Holy Spirit works in making us holy, fulfilling the will of God that we become more like Christ.

The gift of prophecy is highly valued in the New Testament and we want that to be the case at King’s too. Luke explains what this gift is and how God uses it, and then we hear from Hannah about the ways God speaks to her and how we can all grow in this wonderful gift.

The spiritual gifts of tongues and interpretation are powerful for individual believers and churches, so we should be aware of them and eager to receive them. Luke goes through some of what Paul teaches about them in 1 Corinthians 12 to 14 to give us faith to ask for them.

In these “last days” Jesus invites his church to be filled with the Spirit and taste the powers of the age to come.

Speaking at an All-Age service, Callum talks about the amazing and incredible things Jesus did through the power of the Holy Spirit – things He said we could do through that same power too!

Chris continued our series of the Holy Spirit by looking at the story of Gideon in Judges 6, 7 and 8. Gideon was a man clothed by the Spirit’s power to do what God was calling him to do despite his own fear, cynicism and insecurity.

As we start our series on The Holy Spirit, Luke preaches from Numbers 11.

The previous preach, which sets out the vision for King’s Church that Luke mentions, is available here.

In our third prayer podcast, Dan takes us through a session of praying expectantly. Take it on a walk, or enjoy it from your favourite armchair, and pray!

Because of Jesus, we have free and unhindered access to the Father, this is wonderful! Hannah reminds us of this and helps us to avoid falling into legalistic tendencies with the good things God has given us.

Sudden changes of plan can be frustrating and distressing, but God can use these moments to form humility in us – and this will release incredible grace in our lives.

In the first in a three-part series looking at the grace of God, Luke reminds us that, as much as we may doubt it, God’s love is always being poured out on us, without reservation. It’s abundant, and He is lavishing it upon you even now!

The book of Nehemiah ends with a profound sense of anti-climax as God’s people continue to live unfaithfully. This points us to Jesus as the only hope that any of us have. He wants to use the very things that Israel neglected to do us good.

The rebuilding project in Jerusalem ends with a recommitment to the covenant between God and his people. But what is a covenant and what does it mean for us? Nathanael looks at Nehemiah 9:38-10:39 to unpack it for us.

People are reading the Bible less than ever before – it’s a radical choice that most people don’t make. Nehemiah 8 shows us how wonderful and life-changing reading and hearing and obeying God’s Word can be.

Soon after the rebuilding of Jerusalem began, God’s people faced opposition. Jesus promised us this too (John 10:10), so how do we persevere? Raphael shows us what the enemy is trying to do and how we can overcome opposition in our lives.

Sometimes we’re faced with tasks in the building of God’s Kingdom that feel difficult, messy, and unpleasant. Continuing our series in Nehemiah, James looks at the story of The Dung Gate, and reminds us that we can trust Jesus in all the work we’re faced with, because what He has already done for us was messier and tougher than we could ever imagine.

Nehemiah 3 tells us that the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem involved everyone. This should be the same for church life, and Dan looks at three key factors that should help us realise this and live accordingly.

As we continue looking at the story of Nehemiah, Dan speaks on how important it is to be FAT (faithful, available, teachable) as we listen to God and say “Yes” to Him.

Nehemiah was a man of action but also a person of prayer whom we can learn much from. His big and little prayers in the first two chapters of the book give us models for speaking to the God who loves to hear and answer our prayers.

When the people rebuilding Jerusalem faced growing opposition, Nehemiah called them to form small communities that could work together and fight for one another, and so achieve what God had set out for them. In this message from an all-age service, Dan shows us how committing to and engaging with small groups in our church community are just as important today.

Our new series started by looking at why a large gathering of people is the climax of the story of Nehemiah, and a vital part of God’s purposes for church life today.

In the final message from our series about our Unchanging God, Chris speaks about the all-sufficient nature of God, and what it means for us that He is a God who needs nothing from us.

God disciplines those he loves and while this can be painful, it’s actually an expression of his fatherhood to us. He shows his love through offering us transformation, a journey into Christlikeness and the end result is that we can participate in the Holiness of God.

One of the many ways that God is different to us is that He sees everything, there is nothing that He doesn’t see and know about. The first person to realise this in the Bible was a woman called Hagar; in this message Luke helps us see from her story three things that God is looking to do with His vision.

God’s perfection may be something that we take for granted, or apply our own understanding of “perfect” to, but there’s much more to be discovered and amazed by when we study the words the Bible uses to tell us that God is perfect.

We’re perhaps used to talking more about the grace of God than the God of Grace, but grace flows from the God who is grace.

Jen looks at the story of Hosea and Gomer to remind us of God’s nature of reconciliation; He is our Father who forgives while we do not deserve it, and we are to follow this family trait of forgiveness and reconciliation in our own lives.

Continuing our series on unchanging attributes of God, Lydia talks about God’s faithfulness, reminding us that God’s faithfulness is underpinned and guaranteed by His truth, and exploring that faithfulness through four key words: dependable; trust; remember, and share.

Raphael talks to us about God’s omniscience – His all-knowing nature – in relation to the depth of God’s love, His guiding protection, and His plans for us.

In Exodus 33 and 34, we get a glimpse of God’s glory and hear about His mercy; both are infinite, everlasting, perfect – and knowable, through the person of Jesus.

Dan takes us through the story of Daniel’s translation of the writing on the wall that appeared before King Belshazzar. The stark warning the king received reminds us to commit each day to God, and to do everything to make sure our faith is thriving – aligning our `what matters’ with what matters to God!

The story of Esther describes a desperate situation which God powerfully changes and yet He never speaks, does no dramatic miracles, and in fact is never even named. It’s a great encouragement to us that He is always working and we can work with Him.

Daniel 7 records a terrifying vision that Daniel was given to show him the world he was living in and the hope of God’s ultimate triumph. Christians need to be aware of what is going on around us and behind the scenes, and confident in what Jesus has done and will do.

(In response to Luke’s sermon, we played this excellent 90s version of Ancient of Days. Click the link, turn it up loud, sing & dance along!)

This week, Chris talks about one of the most well-known stories in the book of Daniel: Daniel in the lion’s den. This incident in Daniel’s life shows us the power of persistent prayer and why prayer should be a constant priority in our lives.

God has made us to be his lights in the world, and one vital way many of us can do this is in our place of work. Raphael uses the example of Daniel’s interpretation of dreams in Daniel 2:31-45, and also his own experiences of God in his field of work, to talk about how we can do this.

In Daniel 2:1-13, King Nebuchadnezzar makes a seemingly impossible demand; nobody but Daniel is able to fulfil it, and purely by the power of God. This week, Luke talks about how we can also use God’s gifts to have seemingly impossible encounters that glorify Him in our daily lives.

Christ-followers need to be light in the darkness in this world without losing our passion and devotion to Him. Here Matt picks out three “P”s from the story of Daniel being exiled to Babylon to help us see how we can interact with the culture we’re in without losing our integral relationship with Christ.

In this prayer walk podcast, Chris takes you through Psalm 145 to help you pray and connect with God as you walk around your local area.

Music by Danny Robinson.

To wrap up our series Remember This, Luke takes us through five things from 2 Peter 3: 11–18 that describe the lives of people waiting for Jesus. Peter wrote this with a sense of urgency that we should also carry with us.

This week, Luke is talking about 2 Peter 3, how the process of waiting shows us God’s ultimate mercy and patience, but that we should wait with a sense of urgency.

In a bonus recording to go alongside the message `Springs without Water‘ from March 14th, Luke gives an explanation of the Old Testament events and images used in 2 Peter 2.

Matt speaks to us from 2 Peter 2 about what false teaching looks like,  and how we can both avoid and prevent its impact in our lives.

You can find out more about the references to Old Testament events and images that Peter uses in this chapter in a bonus recording, Explaining 2 Peter 2.

Dan preaches from 2 Peter 1:20–2:20 about the trustworthiness of Scripture and what to be cautious of when it comes to interpreting God’s Word for our lives.

This week Iain Kennedy from Glasgow Grace joined us to continue our series in 2 Peter, looking at  chapter 1:12-21, and reminding us that the truths of this book cannot be repeated too often.

In this message from our series Remember This, Chris looks at the seven virtues of a Godly life found in 2 Peter 1:5-11, and the faith that underpins them all.

Dan continues our sermon series `Remember This’ as he looks at 2 Peter 1:3-4; an amazing reminder that through God’s divine power, & His steadfast promises, we have been given everything we need.

Humans do a lot of looking up and looking down: we look up at people and feel worse, down at people to feel better. We naturally create hierarchies, even churches do this – but the gospel abolishes them. Here Luke explains how 2 Peter 1:1-2 shows us this.

Dan takes us through Revelation 21; the description of Jesus’ bride, the church, and how He makes her beautiful.

Couch to Let’s Pray! This prayer walk podcast uses Psalm 46 as inspiration as you walk and pray for your neighbourhood, and yourself.  This version of the podcast has musical interludes to help you focus and pray.  If you’d prefer a version without music, you can find that here. 

Couch to Let’s Pray! In this podcast, we use Psalm 46 as inspiration to pray for our neighbourhoods and ourselves as we walk.  This version of the podcast has no music, but if you’d prefer to listen to a version with musical interludes to help you focus and pray, you can find that here.

In Revelation 1 we read of John having an encounter with Jesus that petrified him. Revelation 1:9-20 is the longest description of Jesus’s appearance in the Bible; here Luke explains the symbols, imagery, and cultural references it uses  to help us see Jesus as He really is, and how we should respond to Him.

Matt shares from Philippians 3: 7-14, looking at how we can use the wisdom found there to run the race of our life with purpose and perseverance.

If you’re looking deeper into this passage and discussing the message in your small group, Matt suggests you ask the following question: what do you feel is Christ’s race for you right now ?

In this message, Andy explains how Jesus coming to the world at the first Christmas means that there is now hope for all mankind in the middle of darkness.

As the countdown through what might be the strangest Christmas season of our times continues,  Dan shares a  message about the hope that Jesus brings to the world; how it helps us in our vulnerability, gets us through adversity, and sees us through uncertainty.

Finishing off ‘The Fight’, our series from Ephesians 6, Luke talks about how powerful the Word of God, the Sword of the Spirit, is – and reminds us how important it is for us to wield this power in our own lives.

Ann continues our series ‘The Fight’, talking about the shoes in Ephesians 6 that carry the gospel, and how to outwork our faith in deeds.

In this message Dan takes a  look at how prayer is described in Revelation as `incense’; we may feel like our prayers are useless, but God views them as sweet-smelling and precious, so let’s keep on praying!

The last of our preaching series on the `I AM’ sayings of Jesus is about `The Way, the Truth and the Life’.

Continuing our series in Ephesians 6, in this message Chris talks about the ‘shield of faith’ mentioned in verse 18, and how we should use this shield swiftly, with perseverance, and together as the church.

Physical and mental health is a battle right now. Relationships can take sheer grit to keep afloat. Work, church, family – these can all be battles at different times. As we fight to stand firm in our faith, Ephesians 6: 14 tells us to put on the belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness; here Dan sets out why these two pieces of the armour of God are fundamental as we face up to these fights.

In the first of our series `The Fight’, we were very happy to welcome Terry Virgo to speak to us on Praying in the Spirit. Do you feel a cloud coming over you at the very thought of praying? Here Terry sets out some wisdom and encouragement on just how joy-filled prayer can be!

When Jesus says `I am the Door’… what does that mean? Here Raphael looks at three ways we can think about this statement and how it shapes our relationship with God.

Matt spoke to us about how the New Testament envisions us relating to one another as brothers and sisters, part of the same family.  We are not to be simply like a family, we are a family: His family!

How do we show ourselves to be Jesus’ disciples? Here Matthew looks at John 15:1-8, unpacking Jesus’ statement of `I am the true vine’ and helping us see what it means for us to remain in Him.

There are many people who would offer us opinions on how to live our life, but relatively few who genuinely care about us. In this message Dan reminds us that God wants His Kingdom to be filled with those who express His motherly and fatherly heart to others, and looks at how we can do that.

As winter approaches and days get darker, Andy reminds us of how Jesus’ statement `I am the light of the world’ can give us hope and strength in all things.

Galatians 4:4-7* tells us we have been adopted into God’s family as his children; what does it looks like for us to demonstrate family relationships amongst the church, in a way that demonstrates the glory of God?

*For clarity: the passage he’s speaking about is definitely Galatians 4!

With so many things claiming to provide satisfaction or meet our deepest desires, Jen Rawson looks at what Jesus meant when he said `I am the Bread of Life’ and how we can find true fulfillment in him.

In the first of our in-person meetings in autumn 2020, Chris Rawson looks at Jesus’ statement of “I am the Good Shepherd”.

Ephesians 4:15 says `we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ’; here Matt looks at how we can keep growing, and help each other to keep growing, so that the church keeps growing, even in the midst of these difficult, socially-distanced times.

One of the things that has made lockdown life hard is the inability to sing together; it’s one way the church family encourage and exhort one another in our relationship with God. Here Dan and Dara, one of the King’s Worship Team leaders, share their thoughts on why singing our worship to God is important, and how to keep at it in these times.

Christianity is an experience of Jesus, and an experience of family. To start our `Iron Sharpens Iron’ series, we invited Don MacMillan to come and speak to us on what it means to be part of the family of God.

Confidence is vitally important for each of us to live life to the full.  Here Chris looks at Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush to shows us that God himself is the only true and lasting source of our confidence.

Many people are feeling “flat” these days! How can Jesus help us? Here Dan looks at how God’s word explains the roots of and cures for this pandemic of flatness we’re feeling.

Matthew looked at righteous anger and unrighteous anger. Our anger tends to focus on proving how right we are and bringing quick retribution against someone else. God’s anger, on the other hand, is always seasoned with compassion and brings justice.

One of the common emotions we will experience in these times is worry.  What can we do when we feel anxious in order to know the peace that God promises us? In this message, Dan looks at what the Bible says about worrying, and three things we can do to combat it.

Joy isn’t determined by what’s happening around you; in this message based on Acts 13:52 Dan looks at how early Christians were filled with joy, even though they faced pretty extreme challenges.

Church these days looks very different from a few months ago; here Dave Holden, who leads the New Ground family of churches that King’s is a part of, encourages us from Acts 2: 42-47 on how we can still be church in this new normal, and keep growing.

The church in Jerusalem that we read about in Acts had many strong leadership gifts; leadership isn’t the preserve of the few, and God wants his church to be filled with leaders and influencers – in church, in culture, in homes, in work. Hannah and Dan discuss what that can look like for us today.

How do Christians respond to loss and death? From the example of the believers in Acts 7:59–8:2, Luke looks at the biblical idea of lament and how we can do this today.

Andy shared three secrets to living in a way that invites God to work through you:

1.  Be in community.
2.  Keep your eyes open to what God is doing.
3.  Recognise what God has given you.

God is generous and He wants His people to be like Him: Acts 4:32-37 summarises the early church’s response. As we look to be generous every day, Luke gives us 14 biblical motivations.

In this message Matt looks at the story of Philip from Acts 8, who preached the gospel and did amazing signs and wonders amongst people in a culture that hadn’t heard the gospel before. How was Philip equipped to do that?

What does it mean to be baptised in the Holy Spirit, and how does the picture of cruise control on a car help us understand it better? Here Matt preaches on the topic of Everyday Power from Acts 2.

This is the first message in a brand new series called Acts and the New Normal. It’s all about how we can learn from the approach the early Christians took in the face of massive challenge and change in their everyday lives and how God used those challenges and changes to further his purposes and see the world come to know Jesus.

We often discover what kind of people we are when faced with solitude and spare time. Most of us find we’re not primarily “constant in prayer people”. But we’re all on a journey in prayer. We have places to go in this important area, and the story of the early church in Acts encourages and helps us on our way.

The news in the last couple of weeks has been filled with the racial injustices we’ve witnessed in the United States. But racism and racial injustice aren’t new sins and nor are they just American ones. Each of us must guard our own hearts against this evil. Here Chris looks at Jeremiah 32 and reminds us that our God is a God of justice. God cares deeply about this issue, therefore we should too.

In Jeremiah 31, the Old Testament promise “I will be their God and they will be my people” speaks of a time when people will be able to have new relationship with God. In this message Dan helps us see what this new promise, this new covenant, means for us today.

Jeremiah wrote to the exiles in Babylon with God’s guidance on how to live in a difficult time and place. In this message Luke helps us see how Christians today need to live that way, too; remaining close to God and working for the good of those around us in everyday life.

A look at Lamentations 3:21-26, written by the prophet Jeremiah, shows us that living in the love of God is far more important that just keeping calm and carrying on.

In this message, Hannah explains the context around Jeremiah’s response to God in Jeremiah chapter 20 and looks at the big story of God’s promises to His people and what those mean to us today.

Matt continues our preaching series on the book of Jeremiah with a message about ‘Staying Close and Malleable to God’

A garden, and a tomb that had previously not seen death in it before, becomes the place where Jesus’ body is laid – it’s Eden all over again, but this time life is being brought back to humankind. The resurrection of Jesus restored humanity’s relationship with God and defeated death for all who put their trust in him.

Many of the constants are changing in our world- that means they weren’t ever true constants! God is showing himself to us as the constant that doesn’t change.

For a Christian giving is growing. Giving isn’t God’s way of raising money, but his way of raising children.

Please note, this preach came after the 2019 King’s finance report which is what Dan refers to, that report can be found in the recording `Finance Report 2019′ in this sermon series.

Henk Kersten, part of New Ground’s core leadership team, concludes our Missional Church Conference 2015.

Chris Taylor, leader of Redeemer International Church in The Hague, opens our Missional Church Conference 2015.

Dave Holden, leader of New Ground, our family of churches, explains what a missional church really is and what our role in it should look like.

Our new preaching series starts in Jeremiah 1 with looking at how God revealed His plans to Jeremiah. This story teaches us about God’s sovereignty – His knowledge and power – and how we should respond to Him.

Why had Nehemiah gone to so much trouble to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls? We get the answer here in a vision of God’s purpose for His people: “the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.” This is what God has called us all to do, declare His greatness to the world.

We can all identify with the experience of rediscovering something that we’d forgotten about or lost. Often times that brings with it an emotional response. In chapter 8 of Nehemiah we read about 4 rediscoveries that the people of Israel made, producing a strong emotional response of public weeping!

When God works with us he does it at the very deepest level, including our emotions.

In this episode, Nehemiah and the Jews celebrate the feast of booths, remembering God’s goodness. But this was never meant to be mere nostalgia, and one day Jesus would give it a whole new meaning.

Nehemiah 5 shows us people messing up, and God graciously fixing them. It warns us that we are a threat to the advance of God’s Kingdom but also offers us the amazing hope of the saving power of Jesus.

Great things are accomplished through team. Nehemiah realised that to get God’s mission accomplished, he needed more than a heart, more than promises they he prayed about fervently. He needed other people.

Nehemiah was deeply rooted in the promises of God. This meant that when he received terrible news he was able to respond with a prayer packed full of promises. God wants us to be able to do the same.

Nehemiah lived in 445 BC. He was: an immigrant, a person of great influence and responsibility, and mightily used by God. But the main point from this passage is that he was a man who was deeply sensitive to the heart of God.

Christmas is a time that focuses our attention on what matters. Friendship is a key ingredient of what makes us tick as human beings. This message aims to help us evaluate the simplicity of what friendship is.

What happens when we give to God’s Kingdom? Paul finished his letter to the Philippians with a description of six things that God does when we give. Comprehending all of these helps us to give with faith and joy.

Christians can be content whatever the circumstances, according to Paul. We can see how this is possible and what it looks like in Philippians 4:10–14.

Being joyful isn’t an option for Christians – it is commanded! But more than just commanding this, God enables us to be joyful by sharing Himself with us. Luke explores how we can rejoice in the Lord always.

Christians are not meant to be original. In Philippians 3: 17–21, Paul encourages his readers to imitate people who are following Jesus. This is different to how most of us think but it is part of God’s great plan to make us like Jesus.

Everything that Paul once considered to be in his ‘credit’ column, he now counted as loss compared to his righteousness in Christ. Through this passage in Philippians 3, Dan Hudson shows us that a relationship with God is our greatest possession, our greatest experience, and our greatest purpose.

Everyone puts their confidence in something. Paul says that anything other than Jesus, however good it may be, is total rubbish in comparison to Him, so we must make sure that we put our trust in Him only.

We live in a world devoid of trust. Our lives our built around routines of distrust, from locking our doors to carrying ID cards. Worldly thinking at it’s extremes might say “trust no-one”, because no-one is trustworthy. But God’s intention is for us to completely trust in Jesus (the only fully trustworthy person to have ever lived) and also to grow in relationships of trust within marriage, friendship and church community.

Paul takes us on Jesus’ journey from heaven to earth and back again, showing His eternal divinity and incredible humility and looking forward to the glorious certain hope to come. God’s victory is total and we can share in it, even in our daily lives.

At the centre of the Christian faith is a saviour who took on the confines of humanity, served them and died on their behalf. Christians joyfully follow Jesus in his attitude towards others.

The Gospel calls its recipients into a new life with God, pleasing him and serving others. In this passage Paul teaches that the calling on every Christian is to “conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel”, and that by the Spirit’s help we’re enabled to live that way.

Paul makes three crazy-seeming statements in Philippians 1:12–26, which only make sense if we understand his total focus on the gospel. God wants us to see things the same way.

Nathanael Smith kicks off our new series in the book of Philippians. Before that, Luke introduces, ‘Nothing Less’.

The Bible tells all of us to expect God to speak today through prophecy, and shows us what this looked like in the life of the apostle Paul and the first Christians.

What does a prophet look like and what do they do? Isaiah 42 shows us that they are both radically loving and radically truthful. This is an unusual combination but Jesus lived this way and enables us to do so too.

The book of Jonah is prophetic not because of the words Jonah speaks (only one sentence of his is recorded), but because his story speaks prophetically to us as the church today that we are to be people shaped by God’s mercy. If God can work with people like Jonah and use them, he can certainly use you and me.

The book of Hosea, although it tells the strange story of a man marrying an adulterous woman, is ultimately about God’s love for his people. Today, it calls us to respond wholeheartedly to God.

Godly leadership is a gift from Jesus, the Good Shepherd who gave His life for His sheep, who cares for us through leadership, and who will bring us to be with Him forever.

In 1 Peter 5: 5–11, Peter tells us to humble ourselves, resist the devil and allow God to establish us in His grace.

The themes in 1 Peter 4: 12–19 are centred on the fact that many believers were shocked at the kickback they were receiving from unbelievers following their conversion. Peter makes it clear that God uses these tribulations to His advantage in helping to purify their faith, and fashion them to be more Christ-like.

Christians are told by Peter to always have a ready answer for the hope they have in Christ. But what does that look like and how do we express it in modern society? Ultimately, Peter sees the hope we have as outshining any fear or power in this world.

Peter shows that Christian marriage is a beautiful relationship between a man and woman who love each other and put their hope in God. The mutual respect assumed here was unprecedented in the ancient world and shows how the gospel gives value to all of us.

Peter encourages us to respect and honour our earthly bosses even when they mistreat us (1 Peter 2: 18–25). We should imitate Christ’s example by bearing up and not letting sin gain a foothold in our lives.

We’re living in times that can feel uncertain, unpredictable and unstable. As Christians, even if the world is falling apart around us we’re to be those who are characterised by hope.

In 1 Peter 1: 1–12, Peter begins his letter by describing the hope that all Christians have, in a jumble of phrases which reference eternity past, the Old Testament, the life of Jesus, and the future. It’s a big picture that’s meant to stir our praise to God and our gratitude to Jesus for doing all this for us.

2 King 13: 10–20: Knowing and trusting God is the most satisfying thing a human soul can experience.

2 Kings 9: The judgement of God gives us great hope for a future free from injustice, cruelty, and oppression.

2 Kings 5: Matthew looks at four characters in this story and how they responded very differently to the situations they found themselves in.

2 Kings 4: 38–44: God sometimes use the most unusual-seeming stories to tell us the most important thing we can ever know: that He is a God who saves.

2 Kings 4: 8–37: God calls us to radically alter our lives to make room for Him. By giving everything to God and trusting Him completely, we leave space for Him to do amazing things.

2 Kings 4: 1–7: God will always provide for you when you entrust yourself to Him. The story of a widow in serious debt demonstrates this amazing truth that God can always be trusted.

1 Kings 19: 19–21: Elisha’s immediate response to God’s call is a great example to us of how to respond in a life-changing moment. The cost was high but God demands nothing less than wholehearted followers.

2 Kings 6:24–7:20: This story teaches us that God delivers His people from the darkest of situations and He uses the least likely people to share His story.

Hear Hannah Silley close the ExtraOrdinary Women’s Day with her talk on stepping into the grace-filled adventure of everyday `normal’.

In the first of the three talks from the ExtraOrdinary Women’s Day, Liz Holden speaks on knowing the transformative power of the gospel in everyday living.

All of us are at risk of wandering away from God and His ways, but through His life-changing power and the formation of good habits we can stay faithful to Him.

Christians often feel like they hit a plateau with their understanding of the Bible, but God’s word is reliable, rich, provocative and Christ-centred. There’s always more to get from it.

Death for the Christian is to be approached with confidence and hope.

Seeing God in His glory is vital for all of us, and as we look clearly at Him, we see how He sees us, and this fills us with hope.

Jesus didn’t just rise from the dead, He is alive forevermore! Right now, there is a man in Heaven representing us. Here are four statements to help us understand Easter and resurrection.

We will all face serious challenges to our faith, like both Paul and Timothy did. God promises to help us through these times as we trust and obey Him.

In the Song of Salvation in 1 Timothy 3:16, Paul explores the wonders of Christ’s incarnation, life, death, resurrection, ascension and ongoing mission to a world that he will one day return to. God calls you to sing this song with faith, wonder and gratitude.

Gender is a gift from God which we should celebrate. It’s also a complicated and emotive issue which requires careful understanding and application of what the Bible says.

Are you in tune with God’s heart for the weak and vulnerable? We are called to take care of those in our families and to to show God’s love for the vulnerable in very practical ways.

What kind of leader should you be and what kind of leader should you follow?

Faith is a gift from God and something we have to fight with and for.

God wants us to be content in Him, and what’s at stake with our contentment couldn’t be more serious. This isn’t a nice lifestyle option but a matter of life and death.

Matt looks at the closeness of Paul and Timothy’s relationship, and how being intentionally relational is vital for any form of healthy relationship.

How should we relate to our governments? Paul is insistent that we pray for them, and focus on what matters most: the Kingdom of God.

The letters of 1 and 2 Timothy were written, first and foremost, to tell us about God, and so they are key to helping us maintain a healthy view of Him.

God has called us to go the nations of the world to share the Gospel and plant churches. Maybe you feel that call; what steps can you take to prepare you to go? Pete and Sarah share God’s heart for the nations and tell some of their own story of moving from Sussex to Berlin.

God is in the business of creating a church community for everyone: both married and single people. Andrew asks, what does it look like to be a church that reaches out to and honours single people and what are the many benefits that brings?

We often underestimate the impact we as individual believers can have for God. Daniel explores the idea that the Christian life is not just about addition but multiplication. By producing disciples rather than converts, the world can truly be changed.

Dave Holden leads the afternoon session of our Chosen for Purpose conference in 2017.

Loneliness is a major issue in our society but we have a God who sets the lonely in families. Through the church, we can invite the lonely into a loving family.

As creatures whose existence is fixed in a single moment of time and space, waiting is a normal part of life. It’s also an opportunity to trust and prove God, and anticipate the eternal joy He has prepared for us.

A storm is a ‘violent disturbance of the atmosphere’. They are uncomfortable, they are unsettling and they are unwelcome! We all go through storms, therefore it’s important for us to know how to react – we need to draw close to Jesus.

Christians should be joyful at all times – not because everything that happens to them is a cause of joy but because our coming inheritance far outweighs whatever is happening now.

We all battle with self-confidence during our lives. God wants to grow you, just like Paul and Timothy, through this season so that you find godly confidence in Him.

While we may long for our lives to be predictably enjoyable, the reality is that the seasons of our life change. We’re wise to prepare for the season of loss.

God wants us all to grow in faith ‘more and more’ (2 Thessalonians 1:3). It’s a commendable quality (Hebrews 11:1) that Jesus is looking for (Luke 18:8). It’s a God-given certainty of unseen realities that leads us to action (Hebrews 11:1).

God wants to deliver His gifts to us for the good of all His people. Matthew explained what the gifts of prophecy and discernment of spirits are.

Most of us spend most of our prayer times asking for things, but Ephesians 3:14-21 shows us that God wants us to ask for Him too! Paul prays that we be empowered by God’s Holy Spirit to experience God’s presence and understand God’s greatness.

The story of scripture is of a God who chooses to dwell on earth with his people. The Church is God’s new Temple. It fulfills all the prophecies of God’s presence that the physical temple in Jerusalem never did. God wants us to love the local church as his Temple in every village, town and city. He wants his Church to be a place where people meet him.

God has chosen the church as his body. He has chosen the frailty of man, and brought together as a ‘one new man in Christ’ lots of different nations, social classes, and people who would normally not particularly get on together!

The solution for a divided world is a united church. According to Ephesians, the church that Jesus builds isn’t just an extension of Jewish religion. Rather it is a community where anyone can belong and be equal as children of God through faith in Jesus.

Grace is the most powerful force in the whole world. It changes lives, past, present and future.

Paul uses dramatic but accurate language to describe the amazing change God has made to every Christian: taking those who were spiritually dead and making them eternally alive in Jesus.

The blood of Jesus has won freedom from slavery for everyone who puts their faith in Him.

Ephesians begins with these remarkable words of address: “to God’s holy people in Ephesus”, not describing a sub-group within the church but the whole church in Ephesus.

This preaching series starts with Paul’s prayer of praise in Ephesians chapter 1, looking at what it tells us about Christians being chosen by God. Seen through the life of Joseph, we can see how God is the author and main actor of everything, but that we’re fully involved too.

What would Jesus say about Christmas presents? He would celebrate generosity and urge you to be counter-cultural. He would also point you towards Himself and the miracle of the incarnation, one of the greatest gifts of love in history.

The Bible tells us that we are made for work and that God has given us work to do. Genesis 1:26: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” God, the Creator, the Author, the Gardener, formed us and gives us dominion over the earth. He makes us in His image: creators, authors and gardeners with roles to play as part of his Kingdom, for His glory.

Jesus promises the Holy Spirit as a gift to all his followers. This gift cannot be earned by merit but can be received by faith. When we receive the Spirit he helps us to know God, to experience his love, and to receive his gifts. We need him everyday!

As followers of Jesus, social media gives us a great opportunity to bring truth and light into a dark world. God wants to bless your time on social media. He wants it to be fruitful and joyful.

Baptism might seem like a strange thing to do in our culture. But it represents the death of our old sinful selves and our new birth into a life reconciled to God and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus calls us to pray and in return we get to drink from rivers of living water. Prayer reminds us of grace, hope and power, which we need every day.

Jesus says that the Old Testament is relevant for our lives because its purpose is to lead us to find life in Him.

Communion is a meal of faith, not a dead religious ritual. It is a sign of the fullness of God’s grace towards us, of the height and length and depth of his love for us.

Jesus was never just a nice teacher with some good moral lessons; he repeatedly made claims about himself that he was divine, sent from God the Father and was the only way to access salvation, eternal life and a relationship with the Father. These are exclusive, inflammatory claims that require a response from anyone who hears them.

Jesus was often involved in arguments with people about what, and who, was right and wrong. When we see that He has authority to define right and wrong, and what He did with this authority, we should give up defining truth ourselves and happily obey Him.

This isn’t a hypothetical question, because the author of Hebrews says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever”. His thoughts on the church today can be understood from what he said 2000 years ago.

All of us are caught up in a cosmic conflict: there is an enemy who hates God and hates us. We are all vulnerable to him, but in Christ God graciously gives us all we need to stand against him.

Whatever your employment status, God has work for you to do, and His plan is to bless you in it, bless the world through it, and for Him to be glorified by it.

The danger for every Christian is that they fail to be transformed into Christ-likeness. In Ephesians 5 Paul warns Christians not to follow the idolatrous cravings of their surrounding culture, but to self-identify as God’s Holy People.

God wants us to live joyous lives in the Spirit, but bitterness and unforgiveness can be a big block to this. We fight this by forgiving others, which we are both commanded to do by God, and are encouraged to do for our own good.

Marriage is about much more than two people loving each other: it was established by God to show the world the glorious relationship between Christ and His Church.

In Ephesians 4 Paul is reminding his hearers that they are no longer clothed with their ‘old nature’, but have been made new in Christ when they believed.

In Ephesians 6:18, Paul instructs us to “pray in the Spirit, on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.” Corrie Ten Boom once asked the question “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tyre?” As we read Ephesians we realise prayer was Paul’s steering wheel (see Ephesians 1:15-17, 3:14-21, 6:10-20).

Walking is a key word to understand how to live the Christian life. It might seem unspectacular but it can have profound and glorious consequences.

We are being brought into relationship with God, through the work of the Spirit.

Faith is being persuaded about something and the Roman Centurion was persuaded that Jesus could heal his servant. This is the kind of faith God is looking for in us and wants to give us.

Trapped in prison, John the Baptist struggled with disappointment as Jesus did many wonderful things nearby but didn’t set him free. All of us have to deal with Jesus doing things we don’t expect, and not doing what we want. He will give us grace to keep trusting Him in these difficult times.

Jesus befriended sinners. It’s one of the first things you learn as a Christian, that Jesus was the type of person who welcomed in sinners and befriended those people who were outcasts in society. It’s the kind of sentiment that can just become quite familiar to Christians. But look at the implications of it and it turns out to be an absolute game-changer.

God is Father! He wants us, his children, to know him as Father.

For the church to be one body, united and joined together, with no divisions or quarrelling, we need to understand that every believer starts in the same way: being born of the Spirit of God.

At the centre of Christian faith is “one Lord”, together with One Father and One Spirit. Trinitarian understanding of God is a vital part of our faith.

Why are Christians commanded to “make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit”, and how can we do this? By exploring what our faith is, we get both an explanation of why this is so important, and how to do it.

One Baptism, Christ’s first initiation declaration for all believers.

Christian hope isn’t wishful thinking, it’s confident anticipation of the good things to come that God has promised and already begun. This hope should shape how we live our lives and be a witness to the world around us.

God wants you to see his church as he does. To love your local church. To love his church in this city. To love his church around the world. To love his church in eternity.

Moses kept the Passover at the instruction of God, a very specifically designed meal with instructions to keep the Israelites safe as the angel of death passed over. We can learn from this meal, and the way that Jesus used it, about different types of freedom that God offers.

Although Christians often use the word “blessing” quite casually, Genesis 37 tells us that when Isaac blessed Jacob, something real happened. If we learn what it is to be blessed and to bless, we’ll understand God’s heart for us better, and be all the more keen to do good to others.

Jericho’s walls fell down through Israel’s corporate faith that enabled them to do exactly what God told them to, and so God brought the walls down. As a church we must also have corporate faith that enables us to obey God.

We’re faced with so many temptations around us to live like everyone else but Moses’ story shows us that even the best that this world has to offer is brief and barely-satisfying compared with what God offers us.

The Israelites crossing the Red Sea pointed to their identity in God and the life they were to lead with Him, and this helps us with what our identity and life with God should be like.

Abraham’s life is a powerful example to us of faith on the move but how did he respond when God asked him to make the greatest sacrifice, and what can we learn about God from this story?

Jacob is more of an antihero than a hero of faith but he shows us how God never accepts anyone based on their own merits, and in his last days demonstrated his faith in the promises that God had given him.

Rahab welcomed and hid two spies at the risk of her life because she realised the power and love of God, what can be our response to God’s never ending love today?

When we read about the faith Heroes of Hebrews 11 we can wrongly think of them as “Superheroes”. None of them were. They had ordinary lives that displayed trust in an extraordinary God. Noah was one such person. His 200-character epitaph tells us about the quality of faith he possessed. He was a person who Trusted God, Heard God and Obeyed God.

God took Enoch, so that he did not see death, because he was pleased with the faith he saw in him, and the way he walked with God. This speaks to us of the future for us. We look forward to eternity with God, because God also sees our faith in his son.

Against the backdrop of a time of immense suffering and oppression for the Hebrew people, Moses’ parents are commended for their faith when they choose to trust in God to save their son and themselves, rather than to fear men. In the same way, we need to trust God not only for ourselves but also for the next generation. By trusting in God we find faith that will overcome our fears.

Abel is the first hero of faith listed in Hebrews 11 and his brief life speaks to us about silence, sacrifice, and suffering.

The story of Esther shows us how God is writing a story with a happy ending, however challenging things are now. He wants Christians to be expectant people.

We need to be expectant for God to multiply King’s, and the feeding of the 5,000 teaches us six lessons that will help us with that.

God wants us to be more expectant of Him!

The New Testament churches were led by teams of elders, which is a model we have shaped our church on. Here we explain the thinking behind this, what elders should do, and how the church can respond to them.

The resurrection of Jesus brings us hope, even in the darkest situations. He offers you life to the full, even in circumstances where it doesn’t seem likely.

What does it mean to be an apostolic church? Here Dave Holden unpacks the term “apostle” and looks at how those called to be apostles serve and encourage the church.

God invites us to be freshly amazed by His grace. In this talk Dan looks at how we can remind ourselves of the grace of God, and remain in it.

God wants his people to be empowered to live in the way he wants us to live, and to do what he wants us to do. Andy reminded us why we need to be a church filled with the Holy Spirit.

Jesus calls us to a life of faith and there is so much we can learn from the Canaanite Woman. Jesus delights in faith rooted in a deep understanding of who He is, that perseveres and that grows stronger as we draw closer to Him.

Through looking at how Jesus received two very different welcomes in the same house (Luke 7: 36–50), in this talk Luke Davydaitis helps us to examine how we are receiving Jesus in our own lives.

In this talk, Luke discusses how an interaction between John the Baptist and Jesus can help us react with faith when life gets tough.

Jesus is building His Church and He will give us everything we need to do this with Him. He gives us gifts of ministries, described in Ephesians 4, to help us grow in maturity and unity.

Throughout the Bible, God’s people have been marked out from other people groups because they know God and are filled with His Spirit.

Dan begins our `What Kind of Church?’ series by talking about what Ephesians says the church should do, and how we can go about doing that.

Matthew speaks about how the story of the Good Samaritan show us how to love one another and some of the things that can get in the way of this.

We are a church defined by God’s Word, the Bible. In the parable of the two builders, we see that this is Jesus’s intention for us. This calls for humility, wisdom, and faith.

Unbelief is something we all experience, but we can do something about it. Here we look at what Jesus said about overcoming unbelief.

Who gets to “do the stuff” of ministry in King’s Church? Here Dan speaks on the New Testament teaching that ministry is not the domain of the few, but the privilege of all believers, and how we can navigate the challenges that could come with that.

The books of 1 Timothy and Titus in the Bible highlight 10 qualities needed for Eldership that should also be aspired to by all followers of Jesus.

God calls us to live a life of faith in an unpredictable world like Abraham did. Also like Abraham, we can discover that this is the best way to live and that God will give us all we need to do it.

Sarah needed to have personal faith that God was speaking, and the same is true for us today.

Jesus sends us because He wants people to know how much He loves them and that they can find life through Him. We need to obey Jesus and to go in faith, filled with the Holy Spirit to become catchers of people.

Jesus loves worship, because it is an outward demonstration of our inward love for God. Jesus loves worship, because it shows that we see ourselves for who we are, and we see God for who he is.

What Jesus says about self-righteousness does not change; nothing you can do will ever make you acceptable to God except receiving his free gift of righteousness. Abandon your self-improvement programme and receive this free gift!

The gift of tongues is one of the more unusual gifts that the Holy Spirit, but we’re clearly encouraged in the Bible to seek it and be blessed by it. It will do us good, and with interpretation can do others good as well.

God is good and loves to give good gifts to his children. The truth of God’s generosity to his children is constantly under attack from the world, the flesh and the devil. As we pursue the gifts of the Spirit, it’s therefore helpful to be reminded that, “God is good and everything he does is good” (Psalm 119:68).

God cares about the decisions we make and wants us to honour Him in these choices. While the Bible doesn’t give us a specific answer for every decision we have to make, in it God graciously gives us examples to learn from and principles to apply in order to make good decisions.

Life is full of change! Change we choose, change we pursue, sometimes change we didn’t ask for that we have to embrace. The way we deal with change speaks volumes about the God we believe in.

Mike Betts speaks at the morning session of our Chosen for Purpose conference in 2017.

In the second session of the ExtraOrdinary Women’s Day, Melinda Sopp spoke on finding joy and contentment in the midst of everyday challenges and disappointments.

Living the Christian life is impossible without the power of God, but God is willing and able to give us exactly what we need: His Holy Spirit.

God calls us to live out our lives like Jesus, who perfectly demonstrated our need to live as sojourners and subjects. As we do this, God uses us, and draws people to put their trust in Him.

Verse 13 of 1 Peter 1 starts with the word therefore. Peter instructs us that our behavior and conduct needs to be fashioned by Christ and his values, rather than this present world; but to do this we need to be very aware of the truths he has outlined in the preceding verses.

Lamentations is perhaps the least read book of the Bible. It was written at the time of the exile of Judah. The author, probably the prophet Jeremiah, personifies the nation of Judah as a grieving woman throughout the book.

We closed our fantastic Together for Scotland conference weekend in 2016 with this message from Dave Holden on the Sunday morning.

Philippians 2 shows us what Christ’s obedience looks like: total obedience means not just doing what God says, but delighting in doing it. How can we do this?

Note: The first 10 minutes of this message is missing; we apologise for any confusion this causes.

The Christmas story, like the whole of the Bible, shows us that God is in charge of time. This frees us from seeing time as a tyrant and we can instead use it as a tool. Luke gives four ways we can do this.

We can see family gatherings as something to be put up with, or a great opportunity to bring grace to people that you’re connected to.

When God is using us to build something great, opposition can be expected. In this message, Matt gives us a series of helpful things we can learn from Nehemiah’s courage under fire.

Where is your life heading? Wherever you feel it’s going, this message is about the hope you can have today.

God isn’t just a God who sees everything; He opens our eyes so that we might see things as they truly are.

God is eager to give us Himself, His Holy Spirit, so that we can bless others and love Him more.

Jesus has authority over sickness and death. This same authority has been given to His followers, so praying for the sick should be a normal part of obedient Christian life.

Perhaps the most commonly-used phrase to describe Christians in the New Testament is “in Christ”. Its three key meanings of where we put our faith, what Christ has done for us, and how we are united to Him are vital for Christians to comprehend if we’re to understand ourselves and God’s relationship with us.

The story of Jesus healing ten lepers and receiving worship from just one of them shows us that God is not only a wonderful healer but our Saviour. As much as we might want our physical circumstances to change, what we need most is to be rescued from our sin.

As Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey (Luke 19:28-40), he demonstrates that he is King, leading all the forces of heaven into battle.

We learn from the conversation Nicodemus had with Jesus how to be born again.

Chris began our evening preaching series by talking about how Jesus said, “Follow Me”, showing us how conversations with Jesus give us a transformed view of Him, yourself, your priorities and your purposes.