The Gospel Shaped Community (1 Corinthians)

We'll be working our way through the 1st Letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth. This series will cover what a Gospel shaped community looks like in many areas of life including relationships, sex, food, the gathered church, and the resurrection.

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Week 20. Open Doors and Many Adversaries (City Centre, Mile Cross)

October 28, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

Listen again as Marcus Tutt unpacks the end of Paul's letter to the Corinthians. This is the final week in our series on the book of 1 Corinthians.

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Week 19. Our Future Hope (City West)

October 21, 2018 by Goff Hope

How do we handle uncertain times? How do we continue to stay anchored when there are so many uncertainties around us? Listen again as Goff helps us to look to our coming King!

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Week 19. Our Future Hope (City Centre, Mile Cross)

October 21, 2018 by Goff Hope

How do we handle uncertain times? How do we continue to stay anchored when there are so many uncertainties around us? Listen again as Goff helps us to look to our coming King!

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Week 18. Gospel Shaped Giving (City West)

October 14, 2018 by Paul Hatton

What is biblical wisdom for how we manage our finances? Listen again as Paul Hatton encourages us.

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Week 18. Gospel Shaped Giving (City Centre, Mile Cross)

October 14, 2018 by Toby Skipper

What is biblical wisdom on how we handle our finances? Listen again as Toby explains how we can excel in the grace of giving because God has excelled in the giving of grace to us.

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Week 17. Tongues and Prophecy

October 7, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

What are they? What do they do? What is best practice for using them in Church Life? Listen again as Marcus Tutt so helpfully explains.

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Week 16. Walk in the Way of Love

September 30, 2018 by Toby Skipper

What's the glue that binds us together? Without this all things in church life are like a clashing cymbal! Listen again as Toby Skipper encourages us to love in the way that we have been loved.

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Week 15. Gifts Working Together

September 23, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

Listen again as Marcus Tutt encourages us to drink like a fish!

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Week 14. The Gift Giving God (Mile Cross)

September 16, 2018 by Dan Stagg

God just loves to give good gifts to every believer! Listen again as Dan Stagg encourages us.

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Week 14. The Gift Giving God (City Centre)

September 16, 2018 by Goff Hope

God just loves to give good gifts to every believer! Listen again as Goff Hope encourages us.

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Week 13. Whose Table are You Feasting at? (City Centre)

July 29, 2018 by Goff Hope

Where do we go to feed ourselves? The answer may indicate where our hidden idols are. Listen again as Goff Hope unfolds how.

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Week 13. Whose Table are You Feasting at? (Mile Cross, City West)

July 29, 2018 by Steve Hope

Where do we go to feed ourselves? The answer may indicate where our hidden idols are. Listen again as Steve Hope unfolds how.

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Week 12. Communion

July 22, 2018 by Toby Skipper

What does Communion mean for us today? Listen again as Toby Skipper encourages us to Look Up, Back, Around, Within, Outward and forward.

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Week 11. My Rights?

July 15, 2018 by Goff Hope

Do we live by "I deserve" or by "I have received what I do not deserve"? Listen again as Goff unfolds again the wonderful Grace of God and how this affects our reactions to others.

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Week 10. Live Well No Matter What

July 8, 2018 by Toby Skipper

Whether single or married, God defines our lives, not our status. Listen again as Toby Skipper shows how.

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Week 9. Sex, Marriage and The Kingdom of God (Mile Cross)

June 24, 2018 by Dan Stagg

How do we walk faithfully with Jesus with sex and marriage in their proper perspective? Listen as Dan Stagg unfolds God's word.

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Week 9. Sex, Marriage and Personal Fulfilment (City Centre, City West)

June 24, 2018 by Goff Hope

How do we walk faithfully with Jesus with sex and marriage in their proper perspective? Listen as Goff Hope unfolds God's word.

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Week 8. Good Good Father (City West)

June 17, 2018 by Paul Hatton

It's Fathers Day! Whatever our experience of earthly fathers, listen again as Paul lead us through God's fatherhood, and encourages us to be imitators.

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Week 8. Good Good Father (City Centre, Mile Cross)

June 17, 2018 by Toby Skipper

It’s Fathers day! Whatever our experience of fathering, listen again as Toby Skipper unfolds the wonderful fatherhood of God and encourages us to be imitators.

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Week 7. Theology of Sex

June 10, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

In a world where increasingly, anything goes, if it's consensual and doesn't hurt anyone, listen as Marcus wisely unfolds a biblical and theological view of sex from 1 Corinthians 6:9-20

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Week 6. Grace and Grievances (City West)

June 3, 2018 by Steve Hope

The Church is built on our relationships one with another. Listen again as Steve unfolds the need to maintain our relationships in a good state, forgiving one another with the same forgiveness with which we have been forgiven.

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Week 6. Grace and Grievances (City Centre, Mile Cross)

June 3, 2018 by Goff Hope

The Church is built on our relationships one with another. Listen again as Goff unfolds the need to maintain our relationships in a good state, forgiving one another with the same forgiveness with which we have been forgiven.

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Week 5. Why Church Life Matters

May 13, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

We are the dwelling place of God! The Temple He has always intended for His dwelling place! How should we be? Listen as Marcus Tutt unfolds the amazingly privileged place we occupy in God's attention.

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Week 4. How Churches Grow (Mile Cross)

May 6, 2018 by Dan Stagg

Listen again as Dan Stagg unfolds the Grace of God for Churches who are, or who want to grow.

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Week 4. How Churches Grow (City Centre, City West)

May 6, 2018 by Goff Hope

How and why do Churches Grow? Listen as Goff Hope unfolds more of the Grace of God on growing churches and how we can lay hold of these things for ourselves.

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Week 3. True and False Wisdom

April 29, 2018 by Toby Skipper

For us, who are being saved, the message of the Cross IS the wisdom of God. Listen again as Toby Skipper unfolds how this can be.

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Week 2. Cliques in the Church

April 22, 2018 by Marcus Tutt

Factions in the Church? Are you of Apollos? Of Paul? Are these errors? How can we avoid them? Listen again as Marcus Tutt unfolds wisdom from 1 Corinthians.

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Week 1. Surprising Encouragement

April 15, 2018 by Toby Skipper

We are Called! Into wonderful relationship with Jesus. Listen again as Toby unfolds inspirational encouragement from the Apostle Paul.

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