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‘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’

Speaking for the first time Declan brings a sharp focus to v10 of psalm 46 by looking at different translations of particular words in this verse to help us understand the depth of its meaning.

Bringing an invitation, a warning and a promise from Revelation 3 v14 - 22, Ange shares a recent prophetic word with the scripture to bring keys to keep us on fire for Jesus. ‘To be in a relationship with Jesus is everything!’

Taking a deep look at Psalm 91 v 1 & v 14 -16. Ikpe Ibanga brings this message of ‘Reassurance, hope and consolation’ using his unique gifting refreshes us through Psalm 91 v1 & 14-16 along with other scriptures and a reminder of the prophetic word from December 2024. ‘We must know who we are worshipping’ and ‘Learn to ask God to stay with us and be brave in situations and thank Him for staying with us!’

‘Being full of the Holy Spirit is what sets us apart from the world.’ Pastor Dave Ward continues our series in the book of Acts with chapter 6 v 1 -7. ‘The Holy Spirit is the one who stirs our affection to serve’. Dave shows that Jesus wants to bring in redeemed power - leaders that handle power and authority vastly differently to the world by being a servant by nature without a hierarchical attitude. ‘Leaders who are servants by nature want power for people not power over people.’

After a wonderful time of worship, this morning’s look at Acts 5 v 17 - 42 had us focused on obedience. AJ Durling spoke about how this scripture gets us to ask ‘Who are we listening to?, Who do we fear? and What does obedience look like?’. AJ encourages us to focus on Jesus’ voice and learn His tone’, that often scripture points out that ‘the fruit of obedience comes at the culmination of obedience!’

Titled ‘The Goodness and Severity of God’ Dave Ward speaks from Acts Chapter 4 v 32 through to Chapter 5 v 11 and how scripture tells us the good and the bad for our benefit. Looking at Ananias and Sapphira’s responses to Peter’s Holy Spirit directed question and the divine judgement which followed. We are asked ‘If God had turned a blind eye would the outcome have been better or worse?’ ‘We should not be asking why they were judged but we should be amazed that we are still breathing!’