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Springfield Church
Springfield is a vibrant growing Church in Wallington, Sutton. Springfield seeks to be a beacon of hope in our community; passionate about growing like Jesus in our lives, worship and witnessMeeting at various sites in Wallington. You can find our weekly talks here.For more information about Springfield go to http://springfieldchurch.org.uk/
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jon gives our next talk using Joshua 22
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jon gives our next talk
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Chris gives our next talk using Joshua 20.
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jane gives our next talk using Joshua 14
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jon gives our next talk using Joshua 9
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Nick gives our next talk using Joshua 8
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jane gives our next talk using Joshua 7
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Jon gives our next talk using Joshua 6
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Philip gives our next talk using Joshua 5
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Our second talk uses Joshua 4
As we journey with God together as church, we’re using the book of Joshua to discover God’s promises and purposes for us, learning how to dream big because of His power, and dwelling in His presence.’ Our first talk in the series uses Joshua 1: 1-11
Jon gives the last talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series of talks using Ephesians 4: 25-32
Jon gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 4: 7-16
Jon gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 4: 1-6
Jane gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 3: 20-21
Jon gives the next talk in our series 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' using Ephesians 3 v 17
Nick White gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 3: 14-19
Jon gives the latest talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 3: 1-13
Jane gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ' series using Ephesians 2: 11-18
Jon gives the latest talk in our "Ephesians: who we are in Christ" series using Ephesians 2: 1-10
Jon gives the next talk in our series "Ephesians: who we are in God" using Ephesians1: 19-23
Cathy gives the next talk in our 'Ephesians: who we are in Christ" series using Ephesians 1: 15-18
Jane gives the second talk in our "Ephesians: who we are in Christ" series using Ephesians 1: 4-14
Jon starts our new series of talks "Ephesians: who we are in Christ" using Ephesians 1: 1-3
Lotwina gives the next talk in our Rhythms of Grace series using Isaiah 61: 1-3 and 2 Samuel 6: 12-19
Ivan gives the last of our 'Simple Trust ' series of talks about Barnabas using Acts chapter 9
Lotwina gives the next talk in our 'Simple Trust' series using Exodus 3: 11-17 & 4: 1-5
Cathy gives the next talk in our 'Called to be witnesses' series using Acts 13: 1-15, 32-43
Bishop Christopher joins us to give the next talk in our 'Called to be witnesses' series, speaking on Acts 12
Philip gives the latest talk in our series 'Called to be witnesses' using Acts 11: 1-18
Chris uses Acts 9: 1-22 to give the next talk in our 'Called to be witnesses' series of talks
Stephen Hance gives the next talk in our 'Called to be witnesses' series on Acts using Acts 4: 1-21
Jane gives the first talk in our new series: 'Called to be witnesses; Encounters in the book of Acts' using Acts 1: 1-11
Philip gives the next talk in our 'Seeking the Kingdom' series using Matthew 15 to talk about a Kingdom Heart
Sue gives the next talk in our 'Seeking the Kingdom' series using verses from Matthew 13
Nick White gives the next talk in our Seeking the Kingdom series using verses from Matthew chapters 6 & 7
Jane gives the first talk in our new series: "Seeking the Kingdon" using Matthew chapter 3
Lotwina gives the next talk in our 'Living in an uncertain world' series, using Luke 1: 26-38
Will gives the second talk in our advent series 'Living in an uncertain world' using Matthew 11: 2-11
Jane gives the first part of our series "Living in an uncertain world" as she talks about God's power in uncertain times using Isaiah 2: 1-5 and Romans 13: 11-14
In the last of our series on looking what it takes to be a passionate church, Nick White looks at how we find the heart of Jesus
Will gives the next talk in our 'Becoming a passionate church' series with 'Making space for worship- the habits of worship' using Luke 11: 1-13
Chris gives the next talk in our Autumn series on becoming a passionate church, using psalm 34 and Colossians 3: 1-17
Jane gives the next talk in our Autumn series 'Worshipping with power- Being released to worship' using John 4: 19 -29
We looked at how a passionate Church is one of intimate worshippers, how it has an assured hope, how we provoke one another to love and good deeds and how it is a faithful church. Using Hebrews 10: 19-25, Will gives the next in our series of talks on Becoming a passionate church.
Will gives the next talk in our "Becoming a passionate church": 'Passionate to be with Jesus'. The bible passage is Mark 10: 46-52 and WIll focusses on our value 'Encountering God'
We continue our series looking at how we can become a passionate church. In this talk we look at how Missional Communities can play a vital part in sharing the Good News of Jesus.
Will continued our series on "Becoming a passionate Church" and talked about having a passion for others from Acts 4. We started looking at the direction of Springfield Church in regards to Missional Communities.
Cathy gives the next talk in our series 'Becoming a passionate church' using two passages: Mark 1: 16-20 and 1 Corinthians 13: 1-7
This is the first in our series about how to "Become a Passionate Church". Will looked at 1 Peter 2 and how Peter encourages us to all live up to the amazing call that God puts on our lives and the life of the Church
Will shares the vision of Springfield that we have been working and praying for in the past many months. He looks at what the parable of the talents (Matthew 25: 14-30) teaches us as to the role we need to play to see this vision come about.
Will gives the last talk in our summer series on prayer looking at how we can form the habits that enable us to imitate Jesus
Jonny Proud from TLG speaks about transformational ministry in our community using Mark 5: 35 - 42
Nick gives the next talk in our series on 'God's Handiwork' using Ephesians 2: 1-10 and 1 Peter 1: 13-16
Cathy gives the next talk in our 'Handiwork of God' series about fruitfulness, using Joh 15: 1-8 and Luke 10: 38-42
Andy Gliddon gives a talk on creativity as part of our series 'God's Handiwork' using exodus 35:20 - 36:7
We can often wonder who we are, what we are doing and often this can be mixed up with low self-esteem. So, in May we are starting a new series looking at how God sees us. The new series is called The Handiwork of God and is a quote from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians “we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” Ephesians 2:10. This series will look at the impact of that as we consider why He made us and what He hopes for us. We are so much more than we all too often think of ourselves and we need to allow God’s purposes for us to inform and shape us
As the handiwork of God, we have been created for the purpose of showing God’s glory. We show God’s glory in two main ways: - By displaying God’s character in our lives - By carrying out different roles and tasks that God has prepared for us to do All Christians have a common goal in reflecting God’s character, but our roles and tasks are unique to us as individuals. God has created us all with different gifts, abilities and personalities and His specific purposes in our lives will align with the way in which we have been created. We are often called to different purposes at different stages of our lives. When God is calling us to do something new, or challenging us about our attitudes, it requires faith to change.
We can often wonder who we are, what we are doing and often this can be mixed up with low self-esteem. So, in May we are starting a new series looking at how God sees us. The new series is called The Handiwork of God and is a quote from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians “we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” Ephesians 2:10. This series will look at the impact of that as we consider why He made us and what He hopes for us. We are so much more than we all too often think of ourselves and we need to allow God’s purposes for us to inform and shape us.
Our first sermon in this series looks at how Grace forms us to receive all God has for us,
Becca with our all-age talk on 'Do we believe Jesus has faith in us?' using Matthew 14: 22-33
Will talks about not only what has been happening in the past year but some of the output from the survey's we have undertaken and the key areas we believe that God is asking us to focus on in the coming year
Will gives the first talk in our short series on the 'Prayers of Jesus' looking at the high priestly prayer in the Gospel of John 17
In the first of our Advent talks, Will uses Isaiah 11:1-10 and Luke 14: 15-24 as he talks about the Hope of the World.
As we move towards our Gift Day we look at Matthew 6 and see how Jesus challenges us in the way that we live out of Covenant relationship into Kingdom Living.
Lotwina gives a talk about the Lord's Prayer and what it means for us using Matthew 6: 7-15
Philip continues our look at Jesus ministry using the lens of Covenant and Kingdom and Matthew 16: 13-20
John Continues our Covenant and Kingdom series with a talk on the start of Jesus' ministry using Mark 1: 14-28
Will continues our Covenant and Kingdom series talking on Jesus' temptation from Luke 4: 1-13
Nick White gives the next talk in our 'Covenant and Kingdom' series based on Matthew chapter 3
Will gives the latest talk in our 'Covenant and Kingdom' series where we have now reached Jesus' story in the New Testament. Using John 1: 1-18
Becca gives the final talk in our summer series: 'Extraordinary Ordinary People' about Mary and her sacrifice using the bible passage John 12: 1-8
Jean Grima gives our next talk about Extraordinary ordinary people using Mark 14: 66-72 and Acts 2: 1-4, 14
Sue gives the next talk in our series about Extraordinary Ordinary People based on Judges 6: 1-12
Will gives the next talk in our Extraordinary Ordinary People series of talks based on Luke 1: 26-38
Will's talk in our 'extraordinary ordinary people' series looking at Barnabas using Acts 11: 19-30
Carolyn starts our series looking at Extraordinary ordinary people with Timothy using 2 Timothy 1: 3-8
Sue continues our series looking at David using 1 Samuel 9: 15-17, 10: 1-10 and 16: 1-13
Will's talk about Joseph and the call on his life. Genesis 37: 3-11 and Genesis 50: 15-21
The next talk in our Covenant and Kingdom series where Will is talking about Abraham using Genesis15: 1-21
Sue gives the second talk in our new series 'Covenant and Kingdom', using Genesis 6: 5-22
Will gives the first talk in our 'Covenant and Kingdom' series, starting at Genesis using the reading Genesis1: 26-31, 2:3
Will's talk exploring the theme of Pentecost at our Taste & See service, based on Acts 2: 1-21
Will's inspirational talk at this years AGM, using the verse 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline".
Lucy from RUSH gives an inspirational talk for our Easter Sunday service based on John 20: 1-18
Philip gives the final talk in our restoring humanity series. His passage was Luke 19: 28-40
We are continuing our series on Redeeming Humanity, looking at how God redeems us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. This week we were looking at how easy it is to exclude people and look to keep everything safe but how Jesus talks of the overwhelming grace and generosity of God. There was an expectation in 1st Century Judaism (as is shared in Christianity) that there would be a great feast at the end of time where the saviour of the world, the Messiah, would be its host. This came from a passage in Isaiah 25 describing this feast. By Jesus’ time the feast had been re-defined to exclude the gentiles that Isaiah talked of being welcomed. Jesus tells the parable to point out that God’s grace was so much bigger than people wanted to believe. Will based the talk on Luke 14: 15-24
Will gives the next talk in our 'Restoring Humanity' series based on Matthew 15: 21-28 and Luke 10: 38-42
The second talk in our new series leading up to Easter which will be looking at how the life, death and resurrection is key to understanding how God restores humanity. Mark 1: 14 - 26
We started our new series leading up to Easter which will be looking at how the life, death and resurrection is key to understanding how God restores humanity. But to do that we need to know how and why we need God to restore us. So, on Sunday we looked at the story of the Fall in Genesis 3. We looked at how, although we have been created by God to be in relationship with Him and each other, we preferred to avoid deep relationship and chose instead to disobey God; even though he warned us of the consequences. We saw how the wish to judge us is alien to God’s nature but that He will – especially if we move too far away from the boundaries that God, out of love, has set societies to live within. He will judge us and allow us to live in exile, even though it grieves God’s heart.
In the final of our series on the Armour of God from Ephesians 6 we looked at praying. The core prayer that Jesus taught us to pray was the Lord's Prayer and we looked together at how this prayer can revolutionise the way we see life together.
We are continuing our series on the Armour of God in Ephesians 6 and this week we look at how God calls and equips us to triumph against Satan
Philip Darkin gives the next talk in our 'Armour of God' series based on Romans 3: 19-24
Will gives the first talk in our new series on the armour of God, based on 2 Corinthians 4: 1-12
Will gives a talk a tour baptism and first communion service based on Luke 3: 21-23 and Luke 4: 1-14
Donna talks on our call to mission, basing her talk on Romans 8: 16-21 Revelation 21: 1-6. This is her final sermon as curate at Springfield
The next talk in our 'Friends of God' series, Overflowing generosity based on 2 Corinthians 8: 1-15
Donna continues our 'Friends of God' series with a talk on baptism referring to John 6: 53-54, 60-69
The second in our series on Friends of God looks at Paul's 2nd letter to the Corinthians and how Paul saw the implications of his friendship with God.
Will starts our new series looking at what it means to be a friend of God, based on John 15: 9-17. Will looks at how Jesus calls us to be friends of God
Will gives the next talk of our summer series on visions of the prophets based on Isaiah 6: 1-10
Lee is interviewed by Will about how she overcame her preconceptions of what church is like and ended up, very much to her surprise as a follower of Jesus
What captivates you about Jesus? What makes you want to follow him? Jesus is the most captivating person in the whole of history – billions of people follow him. Many people who aren’t Christian think he is an incredible person. So, what makes him so amazing? What is it about him that grabs us and transforms us? Is it his humility? Is it his grace? His mercy? His suffering? His glory? His wisdom? Our new series will help us to see what is so astounding and wonderful about him. We will be focussing the series on aspects of Jesus and we will be looking at what captivates people about Jesus. In this one we are looking at the mercy of Jesus at the woman caught in adultery
The first in our series on being 'Captivated by Jesus'. What captivates you about Jesus? What makes you want to follow him? Jesus is the most captivating person in the whole of history – billions of people follow him. Many people who aren’t Christian think he is an incredible person. So, what makes him so amazing? What is it about him that grabs us and transforms us? Is it his humility? Is it his grace? His mercy? His suffering? His glory? His wisdom?Our new series will help us to see what is so astounding and wonderful about him. We will be focussing the series on aspects of Jesus and we will be looking at what captivates people about Jesus.Our first one is on being Captivated by His glory, looking at the vision of Jesus in Revelation 1
First in our new series looking at Mark. This week we look at Mark 1 and the background to Mark's Gospel
Part of our series on the Nicene Creed looking at the role and person of the Holy Spirit
Final sermon looking at the theme of being called. This week we looked at how the first Christians saw themselves called to a way of life and this way of life was about living in the way of love. We looked at 1 Corinthians 13 and how Paul describes how we are to live in this way.
Part of our series on being Called. This one looks at the are of committing ourselves to one another and the cost of that
We looked at how Paul was trying to bring a corrective to the Corinthian church with its emphasis on spiritual gifts and status. Paul starts with pointing them to Jesus and then showing how the variety of gifts should help the church to strengthen and grow. He then points them towards unity in their diversity.
Continuing our series on 1 Corinthians we look at 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and how Paul asks us to treat the Lord's Supper.
We looked at the role of women in the church from 1 Corinthians 11 and saw that the traditional teaching that has often been portrayed of women being subject to men is not what Paul was saying! Paul actually had a very high opinion of the role of women as leaders in the church. Instead he was trying to ensure that the church got it's priorities right and that it also valued the role of the women leaders of the church
Loosely based on 1 Corinthians 10:1-13. We looked at how God led His people in a time of transition. How he needed to prepare them to live as His people. God is preparing us for a new time. We are being taken out of our comfort zones by God and seeing Him working in what we are doing. We saw how we believe that He is calling us to go Deeper and Wider. Deeper into Him and Wider into our community
Paul is under pressure from the church in Corinth. They are questioning his motive and his authority. Paul responds by asking them to look at how he lives his life and how he focusses on the lost. Paul challenges them to win the prize by keeping training for the race that God has called them to.
Continuing our series working through 1 Corinthians we looked at 1 Corinthians 8. The key for Paul here is that we are not part of an individualistic faith but rather we are part of a community and our attitude is vital. Paul points out that people can use knowledge as power and that can break peoples faith rather than build it up.
Part of our series looking at 1 Corinthians. Today we looked at 1 Corinthians 7:25-40. We look today at why Paul focusses not on whether we are married or not but rather on whether we are focussed on Christ
We're looking together at the events that led up to Jesus's death and how they formed a perfect storm - a set of events that multiplied the effect of the conditions that were present.Today Donna looked at the cleansing of the Temple and the strange event of the cursing of the olive tree
We are taking a brief detour from looking at 1 Corinthians to take time to look at the Easter narrative. We have called it “The Perfect Storm”. A perfect storm is an event where a rare combination of events drastically aggravates the situation. This is The perfect storm as these events are a once in history combination of events that forever changed the world.In this passage Jesus is deliberately setting off towards Jerusalem for the final confrontation. There is a sense of anticipation and nervousness amongst his disciples. Although he tells them what is about to happen they don’t understand it and misinterpret his words. So, James and John come and ask and focus on Jesus coming to power and ruling in Israel (even though he has just told them that he is about to be crucified!). The same all too happens with us – we all too often don’t listen to what he is saying to us and the path he is leading us on. We all too often want a comfortable path and one we can take it easy on – rather than the path he calls us to.But Jesus is clear we are called to follow him, wherever that leads, and we see the disciples who think that they see worried and getting the wrong end of the stick and we see the blind man Bartimaeus who asks Jesus that he might see and then just gets up and follows Jesus. Jesus knows where he is taking us – all too often we need to trust in the way he is taking us, even though it leads to the cross. Jesus and all the New Testament writers realised that the way of Jesus would lead to suffering for the sake of others.
In the first session we considered how human beings' relationship with their universe, their understanding of what Reality is and how they relate to God, has not always been the same. We explored the transition from pre-Modern, to Modern and PostModern ways of understanding these relationships, which roughly show a transition from the human being understanding herself as a spiritual being deeply connected with a vast, enchanted reality surrounding her - and accessible through prayer and life's daily round - to a far more contemporary understanding of the individual as an isolated being at the centre of a disenchanted world.
We looked more specifically at what has been lost, culturally and imaginatively, by the fact of being under a spell. We thought about how one sociologist and philosopher says that our world is defined by 'Total Work': that the worker mentality, and market values, have infiltrated every part of life, including that part of life - private life - that used to be sacred and set-aside from the demands of work (don't forget that the origin of 'holiday' is 'holy-day'!). This situation has become so endemic that now even rest is not real rest: rest is simply rest from work, in order to do more work, so rest itself is defined by work.
Having thought lots about how we got to the state we're in (!) how our view of our selves, reality, of sabbath and sanctuary (sacred spaces), have been damaged by a persistant way of thinking that disenchants our imaginations, we explored the foundation-stone of our hope for a better version of all this: our hope in the resurrection body, and the new age to come. In our groups we discussed our hopes for our church, for our world, and how we can, as enchanted individuals inspired by God's holy spirit, become a foretaste of the resurrected life in the communities in which we live.
Paul continues his letter writing to a church in one of the largest, richest and most multi-ethnic cities of the Roman Empire. It is a church with great gifts and talents and a church with many problems!We looked at the role of women in Greek and Roman society and how restrictive it was, especially in Greek society with women expected to be veiled and to stay at home. Greek thought believed that women were morally inferior and even in Roman society they were under a male protector who took all the major decisions. Into this restrictive scene explodes Christianity with Jesus and Paul focussing on the innate value of women (“no longer male and female; for you are all one in Christ”) and the role of women as deacons and even apostles (e.g. Ro 16:1,7). So, we looked at how Paul saw that sex within marriage was good. We saw that sexual intercourse is a key way that a couple expresses unity and mutuality. It requires a self giving of one to the other. In this Paul shows how radical he is by pointing out to both parties that they belong to each other and that it is through self-giving (and not through exercising control) that a marriage is enriched and deepened.
Paul continues his letter writing to a church in one of the largest, richest and most multi-ethnic cities of the Roman Empire. It is a church with great gifts and talents and a church with many problems!A study by the Barna group in the US a few years ago discovered that there had been a sea change in young people’s view of Christianity. Ten years earlier the vast majority were positive about Christianity. Now only 16% were! The three biggest charges against Christianity were judgemental (87%), hypocritical (85%) and old-fashioned (78%). Will asked the question on Sunday – How has it come to this? The most radical teacher the world has ever seen is now seen to be represented by people who are seen as judgemental, hypocritical and old-fashioned? The answer may start with passages such as the one in 1 Corinthians.To counter the charge made by those around us we need to re-capture the focus on beginning to be changed. We do this by beginning to walk in the Way of Jesus. This will involve our seeking to focus on Jesus and to start to live lives that are pleasing to Him. It doesn’t mean that we are perfect but it does mean that we start to try and reflect the love and the grace and forgiveness of Jesus In our daily lives.
Paul continues his letter writing to a church in one of the largest, richest and most multi-ethnic cities of the Roman Empire. It is a church with great gifts and talents and a church with many problems!We, like the Corinthians, live in a society where sex dominates. It dominates our advertising and our TV and our papers and magazines. The Corinthians thought that they were superior to others and that they had already gained all that Jesus had to offer – that what they did wasn’t important as they were spiritually gifted and that was the most important thing.Paul hauls them up. Their focus was all wrong. We are called to be a holy people following a holy God. God’s grace and love is intended to create a people who will start to live and reflect His grace and holiness. It is not intended that we tick the box and then do whatever we like! Yet often we live as if what we do is ok and that sin isn’t real or important “because we are all sinners”. Paul would say – yes, we’re all sinners – but if live in ways that don’t please God and boast that is ok then we’ve missed it. Paul makes an analogy with the week-long Passover festival. When preparing to celebrate the festival the Jewish people clean out their homes of all yeast in order to be ready to eat and celebrate the week when God brought the people of Israel out of captivity from Egypt. Paul says a similar thing. We need to cleanse ourselves, not to gain freedom but to be prepared for it, to be able to live it, as a response to a Holy God who calls us to imitate the life of Jesus.Paul then points out that this is not judging those in the wider society (becoming a holiness clique) – this is about the people of God living up to their calling.
We are continuing our series on 1 Corinthians looking at how the Corinthians saw themselves as not only superior to others, by not recognising how everything we have is a gift from God, but also believing that they had already received everything. Paul brings them back to earth by pointing out that we are called to follow the way of Jesus - and that we are called to imitate him, which involves living the way of the cross.
We all of us find it very easy to judge others; but that all too easily leads to people believing that they aren’t good enough. It makes us too afraid to step up and try – because we are afraid what others will think. It happens in school where pupils are afraid to be asking a “dumb” question. Or we won’t volunteer to join something “because others are so much better than me”.Paul wants to change the Corinthians way of seeing things. God isn’t so worried about “success” as faithfulness and trustworthiness. The world asks the questions “how good are you at…?” or “how productive are you..?” God asks a different question – are you faithful with what I have given to you?
What is the Church? And what, or who, is it for? Paul is writing to the Church in Corinth in reply to concerns communicated to him: he’s heard of factions and infighting; the Church is gifted, but immature and unspiritual, worldly. Paul loves this community, and he is really concerned about their continued sanctification – becoming holy - as Christians. The Jewish Temple had always been the locus of the divine presence: but now, the early Christians are realising, God’s dwelling place is in the Church. This means that the Church is holy – and God’s. So it is an extremely serious matter if the Church is at war with itself. It is both a betrayal of our calling as Christians, and an offence against God’s holy character. Being the Church is not just a social gathering for our own amusement: being the Church is building God’s Temple.
Paul explains how although he wasn’t an eloquent speaker, his preaching was accompanied by the work of the Spirit in changing lives. Now however the Corinthians are starting to feel they are better than others because they have many spiritual gifts and are depending on worldly wisdom derived from the diverse society in which they live rather than on the wisdom that comes from God. Paul reminds them of the need to put their faith in Jesus and in Him alone.
The second in our series looking at Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. We looked at how Paul recognises that to so many the Cross is foolishness to many and a stumbling block to religious types. But Paul saw how we keep trying to make God in our own image and that the Cross was an antidote to being in control.
The first in a series working our way through the whole of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Paul is writing to a church in one of the largest cosmopolitan cities of the Roman empire. He is writing to a church that is gifted but flawed. A church that has been blessed by God but has lost its way and needs to discover how they should live as God's holy people.
Have you noticed how many people in the Bible have encounters with God that causes lives to be altered. Encounters that take people to places they never imagined that they would go. If we want to adventure into the very heart of God then we need to be prepared to venture out of where we are comfortable to the edges. This series looks at how God leads us to the edge and not only transforms us but those around us. This week we looked at Paul's description of Jesus in Philippians 2 and how we are to be unified in our desire to share the love of Jesus. We looked at the attitude of Jesus and we looked at areas where we could share the love of Jesus in our community and so help to restore creation.
Have you noticed how many people in the Bible have encounters with God that causes lives to be altered. Encounters that take people to places they never imagined that they would go. If we want to adventure into the very heart of God then we need to be prepared to venture out of where we are comfortable to the edges. This series looks at how God leads us to the edge and not only transforms us but those around us. This week we looked at how Paul helped to create the right foundations to transform a community. We saw that it wasn't a safe option and that Paul didn't hide his faith.
Have you noticed how many people in the Bible have encounters with God that causes lives to be altered. Encounters that take people to places they never imagined that they would go. If we want to adventure into the very heart of God then we need to be prepared to venture out of where we are comfortable to the edges. This series looks at how God leads us to the edge and not only transforms us but those around us. This week we looked at how Paul responded to the move of the Spirit and how it led him into a radical mission for the sake of the good news of Jesus
After the General Synod of the Church of England narrowly failed to ratify legislation that would allow the appointment of women as bishops to the Church of England, Will Cookson makes a statement to Springfield Church about his position on this.
Have you noticed how many people in the Bible have encounters with God that causes lives to be altered. Encounters that take people to places they never imagined that they would go. If we want to adventure into the very heart of God then we need to be prepared to venture out of where we are comfortable to the edges. This series looks at how God leads us to the edge and not only transforms us but those around us.This week we looked at how the early church learnt from Jesus in difficult circumstances and how the Spirit guided and led them
Have you noticed how many people in the Bible have encounters with God that causes lives to be altered. Encounters that take people to places they never imagined that they would go. If we want to adventure into the very heart of God then we need to be prepared to venture out of where we are comfortable to the edges. This series looks at how God leads us to the edge and not only transforms us but those around us.
The final part of our series on the Fruit of the Spirit looking at how we can take on the Family likeness
Part of our series on the Fruit of the Spirit. This week we looked at the fruit of Humility
Fruit of the Spirit: Series looking at how the Spirit develops our character and helps us take on the family likeness
Part of our series on the Fruit of the Spirit, looking at how we can grow into the Family Likeness.
The latest in our series looking at the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can grow in the Family Likeness
The fourth in our series looking at the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can grow in the Family Likeness. There are three ways that Jesus brings Peace into our lives. Firstly, He brings peace by dealing with the root of our problem, by sending the Spirit to remind us of who we are – beloved children of a loving heavenly Father and finally by cultivating an awareness of Him through the Spirit in our daily lives
Part of our series on Fruit of the Holy Spirit - looking at how we take on the family image that we see in Jesus.
Second of a new series looking at the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can grow in the Family Likeness
First of a new series looking at the Fruit of the Spirit and how we can grow in the Family Likeness
Part of our series looking at the I am sayings of Jesus from John's Gospel looking at how Jesus saw himself.
The first in our series on the "I am" sayings of Jesus from John's Gospel. Looking at how Jesus challenges us on how we see him.
An interview with Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury on the 20th Anniversary of Springfield Church. Topics ranged from his role, new forms of church, tradition etc
Sermon by Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams at the 20th anniversary of Springfield Church