250916 Sermon - Romans 12_1-8.mp3
A Sacrificial Community - Romans 12:1-8 Sacrifice is not about doing things or doing the things we want to do, but about being prepared to give up things that cost us. It is about our attitude.

Rev Craig Downes
25-Sep-2016
A Sacrificial Community

170416 sermon - Romans 16.mp3
Love and Unity (Romans 16) - Joanne reads a letter from Craig to the church - just as Paul writes his love letter to the church in Rome stressing the need for love, not legalism, to keep the church un

Joanne Downes reads sermon from Rev Craig Downes
17-Apr-2016
Love and unity

100416 sermon - Romans 15.mp3
A plea for unity - preaching from Romans 15, Julian explains Paul's plea to the Christians in Rome to bear with one another for the sake of unity.

Julian Freeman
10-Apr-2016
A plea for unity

070216 talk helen and ilir.mp3
Helen and Ilir Dervishi talking about the work they are doing with Rebirth of Kosovo Church in Gjakova and with refugees in Macedonia as an example of the love described in Romans 13:8-10.

Helen and Ilir Dervishi
7-Feb-2016
Love in action

070216 sermon - romans 13_8-10.mp3
In our family service Carole Farley talks about the ten commandments and how they help us to show love and fullfil the Great Commandment

Carole Farley
7-Feb-2016
Ten Commandments

310116 sermon.mp3
Love - Romans 12:9-21 Craig uses the holocaust to remind us of the consequences of lack of love and urges us to show both sacrificial and brotherly love in true fellowship.

Rev Craig Downes
31-Jan-2016
Love

170116 sermon.mp3
United through Grace Romans 11:33 - 12:8 Craig reminds us that the key to church unity is grace and encouraging one another so that we can all unlock the gifts that God has given to us.

Rev Craig Downes
17-Jan-2016
United through Grace

100116 sermon.mp3
Marginal gains - Romans 11:1-32 Craig warns us to the dangers of arrogance. We all have scope to improve by making marginal gains in our Christian walk. It is by our fruit we will be judged.

Rev Craig Downes
10-Jan-2016
Marginal Gains

011115 sermon.mp3
Earn It Romans 8: 39 - 10:21 Craig poses the question What was the costs of our personal salvation? and, using the example of the Earn it order in the film Saving Private Ryan challenges all of us to

Rev Craig Downes
1-Nov-2015
Earn It

181015 sermon.mp3 - Romans 8:18-38
The six ins Romans 8:18-38 Craig addresses the question of why God allows suffering and how we should respond.

Rev Craig Downes
25-Oct-2015
The six ins

251015 sermon.mp3
The Sovereignty of God - Romans 9: 1-29 Continuing his series on Romans, Craig reminds us that God is like the potter with the power to make us, mould us and break us. We need to trust in his choices

Rev Craig Downes
25-Oct-2015
Sovereignty of God

270915 sermon.mp3
Children with Spirit - Romans 8: 5 -18 Craig uses the illustration of Ironman to remind us that we are obliged to use the Spirit within us like little children rather than sulky teenagers.

Rev Craig Downes
27-Sep-2015
Children with Spirit

130915 sermon.mp3
Despicable Me - Romans 7: 14- 8:4 - Simplifying last week's message, Craig uses Minions to explain our battle with sin and how our relationship with Jesus helps to turn us around.

Rev Craig Downes
13-Sep-2015
Despicable Me

060915 sermon.mp3
Struggling with sin - Romans 7: 1-13 - Craig explains that law is there to show us where we fall short of what God wants of us. Prayer helps us to build our relationship with Christ so we do the thing

Rev Craig Downes
6-Sep-2015
Struggling with sin

090815 sg reflection.mp3
Sarah reflects on some misunderstood phrases such as 'everything happens for a reason' and emphasises that God is never the instigator of bad things but that out of them good can happen.

Sarah Graham
16-Aug-2015
Hope in adversity

310515pm sermon.mp3
Dancing with God - Romans 8:1-28 On Trinity Sunday likens our relationship with a triune God like that of a Strictly Come Dancing contestant, working with a professional until eventually there is a pe

Rev Craig Downes
31-May-2015
Dancing with God

310515 sermon.mp3
Baptism - your choice Romans 6 Craig describes baptism as being at the heart of this chapter - in an act of obedience we demonstrate our allegiance and the way we choose to walk.

Rev Craig Downes
31-May-2015
Baptism - your choice

030515 sermon.mp3
All about choices - Romans 5: 12 - 21 Craig reminds us that just as the election is about choices, we have a choice of being in sin or in Christ.

Rev Craig Downes
3-May-2015
All about choices

260415 sermon.mp3
Glory in suffering - Romans 5:1-11 Craig reminds us that we have to exercise our spiritual muscles and go through suffering in order to be transformed into a people who reflect the image of Jesus and

Rev Craig Downes
26-Apr-2015
Glory in suffering

150215 sermon.mp3
Believing faith - Romans 3v 27 - 4v 25 Craig reminds us of the power of believing faith. We can discover, like Abraham, that God is faithful and will do amazing things if we are prepared to wait.

Rev Craig Downes
15-Feb-2015
Believing faith

080215 sermon.mp3
Only by Faith - Romans 3v9-26 Craig takes us to the heart of the Gospel message, reminding us that our righteousness is only by faith and through the grace and mercy of God and the sacrifice of Jesus.

Rev Craig Downes
8-Feb-2015
Only by faith

010215 sermon.mp3
Call yourself a Christian? Craig challenges hypocrisy and uses Romans 2:17-29 to ask the question of whether we are what it says on the tin.

Rev Craig Downes
1-Feb-2015
Call yourself a Christian?

250115am sermon 1.mp3
The God shaped Hole - Romans 2:1-16 - Continuing his series on Romans, Craig reminds us that it is not about following the rules but about following Jesus.

Rev Craig Downes
25-Jan-2015
The God shaped Hole

180115 sermon.mp3
The wrath of God - Romans 1:18-32 Craig helps us to understand the real meaning of the wrath of God and encourages not to look on the wickedness and sin of others as greater than our own.

Rev Craig Downes
18-Jan-2015
The Wrath of God

110115 sermon.mp3
Righteousness of God - Romans 1:1-17 Craig begins a new series on Romans and starts by reminding us that being righteous in more important than rules or being right.

Rev Craig Downes
11-Jan-2015
Righteousness of God

180813 sermon Numbers 622-27.mp3
Blessing - Numbers 6:22-27, Romans 12:9-21 - Mike talks about how we can be blessed and be a blessing to others and the importance of avoiding gossip or negative thoughts and words.

Rev Mike Stanbrook
18-Aug-2013
Blessing

160613 sermon - Romans 812-17.mp3
Child of My Father - Romans 8:12-17 On Fathers Day, Gordon Raggett helps us to understand the amazing love of our heavenly Father.

Gordon Raggett
16-Jun-2013
Child of my Father

070413 sermon - Romans 105-17.mp3
Beautiful feet - Romans 10:5-17 Gordon reminds us that we are not Gods slaves but partners in the family business. We know our fathers plans and are called to bring Good News.

Gordon Raggett
7-Apr-2013
Beautiful Feet

270113 sermon - Romans 818-39.mp3
Living with purpose - Romans 8:18-39 Nigel uses the full perspective of this passage to explain Gods purpose and exhorts us to bring our lives into harmony with it.

Rev Dr Nigel Wright
27-Jan-2013
Living with a purpose

111112 sermon - Romans 121-8.mp3
Romans 12:1-8 Living sacrifices - On Remembrance Sunday Peter reminds us that as Christians we are called to be living sacrifices, using the gifts that God has given to the body of Christ.

Rev Peter Clarke
11-Nov-2012
Living Sacrifices

070811 sermon - Romans 828-38.mp3
Romans 8:28-38 Salvation

Geoff Waller
14-Aug-2011
Salvation