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‘How we identify ourselves determines how we live our lives.’ Looking at Acts 9 v 20 - 31 Pastor Dave Ward senses a prophetic element important for us to take hold of today and continues looking at being ‘in Christ’. Will we choose truth over peace? and Who do you worship? being some of the questions challenging us to press deeper into our relationship with Jesus Christ.

‘To be in Christ is the thing that changes everything!’ ‘ Do you consider yourself a Christian or somebody who is in Christ?’ Pastor Dave Ward continues our series on Acts from chapter 9 v 1 -18 and looks at the conversion of Saul and how his encounter with the presence of Jesus blew apart his life and thinking.

Flowing in her prophetic gifting, Angela Ward shares a sense of what God is saying beginning with; ‘God is bringing a word that He is doing that is mightier then our smallness, He is moving in the nations and bringing a hunger back to His people for more of Him.’ She also balances these prophetic words with scripture and grounds them in Psalm 29 v 1 - 11.

‘This Changes Everything!’ Pastor Dave speaks this Easter Sunday from Mark 16 v 1-8 and asks ‘How did the message of Christ crucified change the entire world?’ and asks us to consider ‘Is our view of Jesus too small a thing?’.

How Jesus cursing the fig tree and flipping up tables in the Temple forms the foundation of today’s talk by Declan Rogers, causing us to reassess and respond to challenging questions. ‘Are you ready to mature?’

‘The triumph of divine love’ We were delighted to welcome our friend and guest speaker Mark Jones this morning and after a time of wonderful worship Mark spoke from Romans 8 v 31 - 39. Looking at divine grace and human doubt, Mark looks to this scripture to answer the question, ‘How can we be sure we are loved in our darkest moments?’

‘Every opportunity to share the gospel might be our last!’, ‘The timing is God’s we just have to obey!’ Pastor Dave Ward continues Acts chapter 8 (v 26 - 40) by looking at Philip leaving the Samarian revival to be led by the Holy Spirit to his next assignment.

‘Heed the scriptures as they are practical gold dust to us!’ ‘When the church becomes an authentic expression of the gospel that it shares, fruit will always follow.’ Continuing through chapter 8 of the book of Acts, Pastor Dave Ward speaks from v 9 - 25 noting that Philip’s preaching of the gospel, ‘loosened the traditional values of the culture they were in’ and in our own circumstances, ‘Things are changing as people are getting bolder due to the preaching of the word!’.

‘The purpose of life is not living long but living well!’ Acts 8 v 1 - 8 ‘is like an illustration of death that leads to life.’ Pastor Dave Ward begins by focusing our attention to v 2 showing how Jesus knew death was an intruder and that there is nothing wrong at all with Christian grief. Concluding that ‘our intention has to be to make our supernatural God alive to people in our everyday life!’

‘Always truth over peace!’ Pastor Dave Ward continues our series in the book of Acts from chapter 6 v 8 - 15 through all of chapter 7 focusing in from v51 to the end of the chapter. Stephen a man full of the Holy Spirit who very quickly became a martyr. Looking at the religious leaders of the time and coming up against dead religion ‘Steven was about to expose the lessons the religious order had spoken to everybody else but hadn’t learnt themselves!’ ‘Here we have the flame that became a wildfire’