Top Church Dudley: Recent Episodes
Top Church Dudley
Our vision is clear; we will be a vibrant Anglican Church, a blessing to our community and resource to other churches. Our mission is simple; to enable everyone in Dudley to experience life in all its fullness as Jesus promises. Please join us on Sundays @ 11am for word or communion services and 4pm for Contemporary worship with youth and children’s ministry & great refreshments, you are so welcome.
James shares his final thoughts for the Anglican churches in Dudley as part of his farewell service. James leaves to become the Bishop of St Germans in Cornwall and will be deeply missed in Dudley. We give thanks for all God has done through his ministry here over the last 8 years.
We celebrated 2 baptisms at church this Sunday, listen to James' message as he reflects on a passage from Romans 6 and a passage from the Gospel of Luke
James talks to us about Jesus' first documented miracle and what it means for us today.
Esther talks to us about Psalm 67, what it means to be blessed and what we should be doing with God's blessing in our lives
The newly installed Bishop of Worcester +Hugh Nelson joined us for his first Sunday in position! Hear what he had to share with us at our 4pm service, as we look at John 1:29-42
As we enter the new year, Clare talks about the role of the Magi in the Christmas story and how God uses them to 'bring outsiders in'
James Treasure - A New Covenant, A New Future - 28th September 2025 by Top Church Dudley
James Treasure - The Mountain: Encountering Purpose - 25th May 2025 by Top Church Dudley
James looks at Luke 2 and about the way that Anna would have lived in a world dominated by the noise of strong men
James talks to us about the baptism of Jesus and the symbolism of water in the culture of the time
James introduces our new series, we'll be looking at the first book to be written of the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians.
James talks to us about the significance of communion as we reach the end of our short series looking through Rowan William's book Being Christian
As we continue our series based on the book 'Being Christian' by Rowan Williams, Clare takes a look at what the bible means in the context of our anglican faith
James introduces us to our new series, where we follow the 4 essentials to the faith as outlined in the book by Rowan Williams - 'Being Christian'
Clare looks at the actions of the apostles after Jesus' ascension and before Pentecost, and talks to us about what it's really like to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit
Esther talks to us about John 15:1-9 as Jesus tells us He is the true vine, or does he?
James looks at the words Jesus chooses as he spends time with his disciples after his resurrection and how we can hold onto them in our lives
Sarah looks at doubting Thomas, and asks if maybe he should have had a different nickname...
James talks to us about who Jesus first came across after his resurrection and the significance of who he chose.
We're catching up on our last few months preaches - this time we go back to 21st January to hear Sarah's thoughts on Jesus' first miracle
James speaks to us for the first time in 2024 and guides us into the season of Epiphany
Esther brings us the next part of our Bible Stories: Revisited series, looking at the story of Moses
After playing a whole church game of Jenga(!), Esther continued our Bible Stories: Revisited series by taking a look at the story of the tower of Babel
Sarah continues our Bible Stories: Revisited series, this week we looked at the story of Noah
Sarah introduces our new series, looking at the stories we know so well, often from childhood, but often negelect as adults.
James brings us the final message in our Jesus on the Beach series, looking at the final chapter of John's Gospel
James closes our wisdom series by looking at the Wisdom of Jesus, the Author of our story.
Esther continues our series on the wisdom books, asking if Ecclessiates really tells us that everything in meaningless...
James looks at Wisdom and Suffering through the book of Job and how the bible doesn't have one voice, but many.
James looks at Matthew 9:35 - 10:1 and looks at another way Jesus tells us to be compassionate, prayerful and helpful
We continue our Holy Spirit series as James looks at the different language used in the synoptic gospels to talk about how the spirit led Jesus into the desert
Archdeacon Nikki talks to us as we celebrate Sarah's Licensing as Associate Vicar at Top Church
Sarah tells us one of her stories of the impact of the Holy Spirit in her life as we celebrate Pentecost
Happy Easter! James talks to us about the events jsut after Jesus' resurrection from the gospel of Mark, what would Jesus do if he was running late for a pretty important meeting?
Foluso speaks to us for the last time before she leaves us for new pastures! She continues our Beatitudes series, exploring what it means to be pure of heart.
James continues our Beatitudes series, talking about hunger and the differences between Luke and Matthew's views of hunger
Sarah talks to us as we continue our series looking at the beatitudes with a message abuout mourning
James talks to us about how the beatitudes have been interpreted in different ways across history and looks at how we might interpret them today
James talks to us about the wedding at cana as we visit Jesus' first miracle. He asks us why was Jesus at a wedding and how we can learn from Mary in this story
James looks at John chapter 1, how it mirrors Genesis and what we can learn from Jesus and John the baptist
Sarah talks to us as we celebrate Epiphany, sharing thoughts on personal Epiphanies and good news for all!
James reflects on the whisper of God in Psalm 46 and Dave leads us in his original song meditation written from the passage
As we spend time in remembrance this weekend, James take a belated chance to celebrate all saints and all souls and remember thos no longer here
Calum continues our series looking at our Vision and story, focussing on how we can bless our community
James introduces our series taking a look at our Vision and Story after 4 years of the Resourcing Church project
Foluso talks to us in our final service of the fruit of the Spirit series, delving deeper into what self-control is
Sarah talks about our next fruit of the spirit, faithfulness as we also celebrate the thanksgiving service for Bethan.
Listen to Sunday's message from James Treasure as we continue our Fruit of the Spirit series, hearing about goodness.
Two sermons from ourservices this week! Here Foluso continues unpacking the appearances of Jesus after Easter in a different way to Sarah from the morning service
There are 2 sermons from our different services this week! We continue to look at the appearances of Jesus after Easter with this message from Sarah
James continues to look at the appearances of Jesus after Easter in this message looking at doubting Thomas
Missed our service? catch up with James' All Saints focussed message from the 14th November
Missed the service last week? Catch up with Calums message as we think about loss and grief through psalm 23
James introduces our new series, exploring how looking after our world is our responsibility as followers of Jesus
Hear Foluso's mesasge from our first service of July! To find out more about Top Church, visit topchurch.co.uk
James explores how Jesus launched his ministry in the wilderness, the thin place where heaven and earth meet, and where we receive affirmation before any works have been done.
A Recording of O Holy Night by the Top Church Community Choir and Friends.
This was our 3rd virtual choir project amidst the coronavirus pandemic. We hope our song uplifts you during this difficult time
This Sunday, we continued to journey with Jesus through his final week on earth. This week, Sarah looks at Monday.
This week we were privileged to welcome Brother Samuel to Top Church. Sam is a Franciscan friar who currently lives in a Friary in East London. He was with us to share talk about why we share ashes on Ash Wednesday and he also distributed ashes with us as part of the service.
Have you ever wanted to run away, or been plagued by doubt? Sarah explores Elijah's doubt in 1 Kings to help us see that it is perfectly normal.
Last Sunday we reminded ourselves how Jesus welcomes those whom the institute excludes. This Sunday as well as sharing Holy Communion together we will explore the question 'Is it possible to take the wrong road with God?
Someone once described Jesus as a 'Migrant Messiah' because He was (and is) always on the move; on the road. And this week we continued our theme by looking at one of the most impacting 'on the road' early church stories; the story of the Eunuch. It's mind blowing and James led us through some great insights on how the events of the early church affect us today.
This week, Rachel looked at how Jesus journey to Jerusalem is a road of revelation and a road to His own death. What does this mean for us, His followers?
For January, we began a new series, 'on the road'. Ironically last week we didn't quite start the journey ;) but on Sunday we considered how Jesus encountered His friends on the road to Emmaus and reflect through prayer and worship, how we can adopt this way of being as a church.
Our first "normal" Sunday of the year - James takes a look at the four faces of God, taking inspiration from the book of Ezekiel.
This Sunday James continued our series looking deeper into the 'Lord's Prayer'; focusing specifically on the meaning and depth behind the phrase "Give us this day our daily bread". He draws reference from the story of the feeding of the 5000 and we explore how intensely personal, political and inclusive the prayer is.
This Sunday we were joined by Dr Ash Barker from Newbigin House, who shared some reflections on the good Samaritan, life as a Christian in the margins, how Jesus lived to transform us and how we can use this to risk comfort for the benefit of others.
This Sunday we began looking at the Kingdom Prayer, or the Lord's prayer. Find out what makes this prayer so vital across all denominations of Christianity as James begins our closer look at the 'Our Father'
Apologies, as this recording begins a short way into the sermon.
This Sunday, we finished looking at Jesus and meals by exploring how Jesus pioneered a new way of leading and being in the world which brought about change; it was not through power, shouting at people or even envisioning but by simply being a HOST.
While it sounds familiar its actually a radical way of being in the world and a different way of leading those around us.
This Sunday we continued to explore the theme of the meals of Jesus and also had space set aside for anointing with oil. Listen to James' message about the importance of how we act and what we believe.
This week as part of our Kingdom Series we began to think about the meals that Jesus ate! For most of Church history we have seen this side of his ministry as a side note - an interesting fact! However, new scholarship is discovering just what a huge statement Jesus was making when choosing who he ate with; it was personal and political.
This Sunday we continue to explore the theme of stories, with Rev Rachel Newell exploring the parable of the Prodigal Son
This Sunday, Sarah continued our Subversive Kingdom series, looking at Jesus' Religious Empire.
This Sunday we continued to explore this theme by looking at the ways Jesus resisted and challenged the political system of his day...
One can't help feeling this might be a tad relevant just now!
Over the summer months (as well as moving house) I've been reengaging with the life of Jesus and the nature of His subversive Kingdom. Its done my spiritual life the world of good! I'm really looking forward to kicking off a new series this Sunday and in the light of current events it feels even more timely. This series will take us through to our re-entry into Top Church in November. (The Church building work is going well and on time!)