Urban Crofters Podcast: Recent Episodes
Urban Crofters
We are a family of God-believing Creatives, seeking to Connect and Transform our local community for the Kingdom.
Bonus episode of a recording of Rod Green's talk a few weeks ago, live at UC, focussing in on the second part of what Will brought to us on the Eternal Perspectives of Heaven and what he sees in the church today in his work as Archdeacon of Llandaff.
Emily brings us the next instalment for our 'Eternal Perspectives' theme leading us through advent!
Will opens up our new speaking series on 'Eternal Perspectives', speaking on various parts on this topic, the first of which being 'what is Heaven like?' join us as we journey into Advent, focussing on these eternal perspectives.
Emily brings us this week's talk looking at Acts 5:17-42, focussing on the theme of Persecution.
Will continues on our series of the book of Acts, this week he opens up more of chapter 4 of this letter, written by Luke to the early Church.
Our guest speaker, Lidia Roar, shares with us her message on Acts 4:23-31 as part of our teaching series on the book of Acts.
Jude takes us through our next instalment of the book of Acts, ahead of Sunday's gathering this week!
In the run up to our Healing service this Sunday, Will enlightens us on the third chapter of the book of Acts, and of the Holy Spirit's work through Peter of the healing of the Lame Beggar.
Abi brings us the second instalment of teaching on Acts 2, and gives us great prophetic insight into what she feels God is saying to us as a Church through this.
Welcome to the new season of our podcast! We're beginning a new series on the Book of Acts, with Will taking this first episode to talk about chapters 1 to 5, diving in deep into the early church's history.
A special guest gives us a message on Holy Communion this week - David Sheen, Chaplain for Cardiff University, shares his thoughts on this topic of the sharing of Bread and Wine, ahead of our Sunday Gathering.
Will brings us a brilliant message on 'Baptism' and the life and resurrection of what it is in preparation for our baptism service later in July.
Emily takes us through Ephesians 6:10-18, focussing in on Spiritual Warfare! Ahead of our Sunday Gathering this weekend in Sunny Cardiff!
Dave speaks to us live from his caravan while holidaying in the sun! Here he unpacks more of Chapter 4 of Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
Will talks us through Ephesians 4:7-16, and specifically at what is known as the Five-Fold ministry, in regards to the lesser explored gift of Apostolic ministry. A great exploration of this exert to Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus.
Emily talks us through some of the insights of Ephesians 3:14-4:6 from the letter Paul wrote to the church of Ephesus. Ahead of our Sunday Gathering this week for Pentecost Sunday!
Will unwraps chapter 3 of the book of Ephesians as part of our 10 part series on the book of Ephesians, written by the Apostle Paul to the followers of The Way in Ephesus.
Andy takes us through Ephesians 2:11-22, as part of our Ephesians series, here at Urban Crofters. Looking at the 'United household of Faith' as we pray for Unity in the Church and within our own live in relationship to Christ.
Taking a deeper look at the next part of the book of Ephesians, as part of this 10 part series. Looking at redemption grace from Paul's writings to the church in Ephesus.
We're beginning our new series on the Book of Ephesians this week! Here we have the wonderful Emily talking us through the context of Ephesians and how Ephesus looked in Paul's day, and how we can apply some of the words from this letter to our lives today.
Following on from Emily's summery of Paul's letter Ephesians, and uncovering some great truths from the first chapter of this book, Will takes us through the second chapter. How do we apply these words within the Holy Scriptures to our daily lives, and what can we learn about God's power and love through his work with the people of Ephesus?
Abi takes us through what it looks like to Grow in Prophetic ministry from the perspective of the last chapter of Genesis with Jacob and Joseph. Ahead of our gathering together on Sunday, book via our website to be there in-person, or find us on Facebook for a livestream of our time together, full of prayer, praise, testimonies and seeking the Lord through the Word.
Edit: One thing Abi has highlighted, at 15.33 she mistakenly says 'we serve an enemy that deserves to be cursed', but this IS NOT TRUE! We in fact just 'Have an enemy who deserves to be cursed' :)
Jessie takes us through looking at Prophetic Blessings in Genesis 48, where we find Jacob blessing Joseph's sons - Ephraim and Manasseh. Exploring what does prophetic blessing look like today for us? How can we form great clarity in how we understand these as we lean into our prophetic callings? What does The Bible show us?
Andy takes us through more of the story of Joseph in looking at implementing prophetic strategies as we continue on this series.
This week we're taking a break from our Joseph series on this Mothering Sunday to celebrate the women in our lives! Specifically looking at the theology of gender and providing a reflection on mother's day from a biblical and historical standpoint.
Emily gives us a great insight into Empowering Prophetic Creativity through observations God's work in the lives of influencers from past and present along with an insightful conversation with Cheryle Broom from ICCC UK on God's prophetic timing and resourcing.
We had a chat with our lovely leaders, Will and Jude, on the vision and story of Urban Crofters following our new Vision Video release (watch on our YouTube channel!). Chatting about the beginning roots planted over 4 years ago with 'Art and Soul' (a community initiative), and in the early days, where God was building a sense of trust, openness and honesty and a culture that said 'Everybody's Welcome'. Developing from a heart of further community growth through Missional Community development, and having now found and been blessed by purchasing a church building to slowly cultivate a home for all that's to come for the UC family.
Will and Jude expand further on our exploration of the life of Joseph of the Old Testament, ahead of our Online Sunday Gathering this week.
We're beginning a new series looking at the life of Joseph from the Old Testament. The dreamer, leader, prophet, fashion icon(?) and so much more. Here Will starts to unpack more of his story and how it relates to us in the everyday lives that we find ourselves in.
Listen to the latest teaching from Will on 'Healing' looking at how God displays his glory through the ministry of healing on earth through the work of the holy spirit in us.
Beginning our new series on 'Healing', Will takes us through what the Bible teaches on this new topic and how it applies to our daily walk.
We're back again this week with Will, considering the way we are sent to steward prophetic messages and our own prophetic gifts in order to serve others. "As faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms" - 1 Peter4:10.
Continuing from last week's conversation on Prophecy, Will unpacks more of how it relates to our everyday lives and the Church 2021 vision based on John 20:21 - as the Father sent Jesus to share prophetic messages, so Jesus sends us to do the same.
Our wonderful vicar Will leads us in a talk and reflection on Prophesy examining the ways in which The Bible speaks of it and how we can implement it into our grass-roots-everyday.
The theme music for our brand new podcast, with new episodes coming out every Thursday!