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Prophecy (7PM Series)

The prophet in the Old Testament is someone raised up or called by God to speak to the people and act on his behalf. A prophet is sometimes called 'a man of God'; other terms include 'hazeh' - visionary or 'roeh' - seer. More commonly used is the word 'nabi', someone who announces. Prophets include women (Deborah). The names indicate the role; a prophet is God's messenger. There is an expectation that the Prophet will have God's Spirit and may perform signs and wonders. The prophet will have the ability to see in a visionary way to see from God's perspective, perhaps to fore tell as well as forth tell, and have supernatural insight for both large scale events and local insights.

PROPHECY: The prophet in the Old Testament, Clare Thompson recorded 03/04/16

Clare takes us through a whistle-stop tour of prophets in the Old Testament and the things that they pointed towards.

PROPHECY: A prophetic people in the New Testament, Rob Scott Cook 10/04/16

A brief overview of prophecy in The New Testament and what does that mean for us today?

PROPHECY: The openness of God, Nigel Savage 24/04/16

How do we understand the role of the prophetic and God’s nature? How do we respond to the a prophetic word? Bible Ref. 1 Thessalonians 5:21

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Soul Care (7PM Series)

SOUL CARE looks at the modern need to look after ourselves and our 'souls' spiritually.

SOUL CARE Series Introduction, Dave Mitchell 10/01/16

Our society focuses on material things. Human beings are more than creatures. They have a ‘deep’ placed, a soul that belongs to God.

The Bible and especially the psalms (e.g. 42, 62, 63, 84) talk about bringing our soul to God as a vital spiritual discipline.

SOUL CARE & PRAYER, Rob Scott-Cook 17/01/16

Prayer can be hard work, and a spiritual discipline. It can also be the overflow of the soul. The story of Hannah 1 Samuel 1:10-15 is about that kind of passionate prayer. Often prayer in times of deep distress or joy seem to flow from the ‘soul’, whereas disciplined intercession can seem more cerebral, perhaps aided by a list or journal. Is one kind of prayer more valuable than another? Bible Ref. Matthew 6.5-8

A THIRSTY SOUL, Simon Rotheram 24/01/16

Read Psalm 42, a classic expression of spiritual thirst. (C.f. Psalm 63). The longing of a thirsty animal in search of water contrasts with the waterfalls, breakers and waves that can be found in God, an abundance of water. Jesus uses the metaphor of water for the life of the Spirit in his encounter with the woman at the well in John 4 and his teaching in John 7;37-39.

Bible Ref. Psalm 145.16

REST OF SOUL, Pam Scott-Cook 31/01/16

Children should be loved and accepted unconditionally, before they have done anything of merit. It continues with sustenance, the practices that replenish the spirit that Jesus himself engaged in, such as times for solitude, friendship, enjoying creation etc. The third movement is ‘significance’, the sense of knowing who we are in God’s grace, and of how our lives point to him. The final phase is achievement, fruitfulness, and awareness that fruitfulness has come about not through a cycle of works, but a cycle of grace.
Bible Ref. Luke 11: 1-13

RESTORED SOUL, Dave Mitchell 05/02/16

What happens when we lose our way, lose our joy, and lose our first love? Restoration is a process which we can be part of as Church. The Psalms cry out for Restoration for a nation. Galatians 6:1 speaks of restoring a sinner gently. Restoration tends to be a walk, we fall in love but when we lose it we have to walk back into loving relationship. A restored Soul learns to be hungry again, to recognise idolatry (false compensations for soul hunger) and turn from it, to recognise sin and repent of it and to receive grace and mercy.

Bible Ref. Psalm 23.3

SOUL LOVE: MADE FOR LOVE Hannah Mitchell & Tim Dobson 12/02/16. 

In a world at a time where when we think about love we can use terms like 'soul mate', what does it mean to re-understand the nature of love through the lens of faith?

Bible Ref. Ecclesiastes 4.9-12

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The Easter HymnBook Vol.1

The #EasterHymnBook has been designed as an audio experience to help give you some time and space to think about Easter this year. 

You may be familiar with church, you may not but we've brought together some thoughts, songs and readings that will hopefully help deepen your exploration of Easter and it's meaning to you, to us and to the world as a whole. 

You can experience the #EasterHymnBook track-by track or as a podcast but we’d encourage you to listen to it all in one sitting as a whole experience. 

We hope you enjoy it, but more than that - hopefully it helps you meet with Jesus in some way. 

TRACK LISTING: 
1. Egg. Sunday. Egg
2. John 19v16 to 17v16 - Paul Asterley
3. Whispers - Robin Mitchell
4. Conversation with Jen Lister
5. Chopin Nocturne in C sharp Minor (No.20) performed Manami Baba
6. Meditation Space / Dark Before Dawn
7. Wide Open - Colse Leung
8. An Easter blessing - Rob Scott Cook / Dawning - Colse Leung 

How Did Jesus? (7PM Series)

When we read the life of Jesus in the gospels, are we to see things that mark Jesus out as the unique son of God, or are we to see things that we are called to imitate and experience ourselves as followers of Jesus? I think the answer is yes (both and). In the series ‘How did Jesus’ we can explore some of those tensions; what makes Jesus unique, but what can we learn and copy today?

HOW DID JESUS HEAL? Clare Thompson 21/02/16.

The healing ministry of Jesus is something he called and still calls his followers into. Jesus healing ministry begins after his baptism and testing in the wilderness. Bible Ref. Luke 4:31-40

HOW DID JESUS MAKE DISCIPLES? Joey Mitchell 28/02/16

Jesus prioritised making disciples, and commanded his disciples to do the same (Matt 28:19). ‘Infectious discipleship’ is a word for the year at Woodlands and our mission statement ‘Continually reproducing the life of Jesus’ is a statement about discipleship. Bible Ref. Luke 5:1-11

HOW DID JESUS TEACH? Rob Scott-Cook 06/03/16

Jesus teaching was extraordinarily popular with all kinds of people (c.f. Luke 15:1). He taught crowds, but also took the small group of 12 disciples aside (18:31) to explain more deeply his message, to answer their questions or reflect on his ministry.  What made Jesus’ message so attractive to them?
Bible Ref. Luke 15-18

HOW DID JESUS PRAY? Jon Wilcox & Dave Mitchell 13/03/16

Jesus’ prayer life was one of the most distinctive things about his relationship with God. It had a non liturgical intimacy. He called God by the intimate name ‘Father’. He practiced prayer as a key priority above the pressures of people. It was so distinctive that his disciples, brought up in the faith of their forbears, asked ‘Lord teach us to pray’ (Luke 11:1).

HOW DID JESUS SUFFER? Rachel Riddall 20/03/16

One aspect of the ministry of Jesus that we are explicitly called to imitate is suffering. Jesus said that his disciples must take up their cross. This is not a popular subject in contemporary Charismatic spirituality, yet throughout the world Christians are suffering through persecution more than at any time in history, sometimes literally taking up their cross.

HOW DID JESUS TRIUMPH? / EASTER DAY Tim Dobson 27/03/16

When Jesus hung on the cross, his opponents sneered ‘He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ’ (v 35). How much of being saved actually depends on ‘not saving your own life’? How was Jesus utter trust and dependence on God fulfilled in his dying? How do we try and ‘save ourselves’? Where do we need to trust in God’s salvation more?

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Overcoming Obstacles (7PM Series)

Henry Ford said "obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal". For us as followers of Jesus, we look towards Him not only our goal, but as our example.

RELEASE OF MINISTRY Pam Scott-Cook  

The extraordinary growth of the Church in Acts brought strain on the structure of the early Church. One of the signs of strain was some of the vulnerable people in the Church feeling overlooked. It also meant that the Apostles were becoming a bottleneck and that they were neglecting their primary callings. These kinds of pressures are familiar ones in any growing organisation but can really hinder kingdom growth. On the other hand, this kind of growth can also be an opportunity to release significant kingdom ministry.

Bible Ref. Luke 4:31-40

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: Persecuted Church, Dave Mitchell 12/06/16
Persecution has been part of the Church from its beginning as these chapters in Acts show. Persecution is also on the increase. Open Doors estimate that in 2015 7,000 Christians were killed for their faith, but millions of Christians are affected by lower level persecution and discrimination. What can we learn from the biblical record of persecution, and learn from the global persecuted Church today? Bible Ref. Acts 7 8:4

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: Global Partnership Sunday, Tim Dobson & Charmian Arevalo-Squire 19/06/16Acts chapter 8 describes the mission of the early Church across the first national boundary, the neighbouring country of Samaria. This is followed immediately by the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, where the good news of Jesus is conveyed by him to the heart of another more remote nation. The great commission of Jesus is being fulfilled, and we stand in a long line of witnesses to the nations of the world as we think about our own place in the global Church. Bible Ref. Acts 8

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: The Power of Encouragement, Rob Scott-Cook 26/06/16

Acts chapter 9 describes the conversion of Saul who has been a chief persecutor of the church. Saul has a vivid encounter with Jesus on the Damascus road but understandably encounters suspicion in the Church family. The key to him being accepted by the Church in Jerusalem, who haven’t witnessed the change in him first-hand, is the role of Barnabas whose name means ‘son of encouragement’. Bible Ref. Acts 9

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