St Matthias, Brighton - Sunday Talks

26th March | This week we welcome Piers Arthur-Crow, who directs The David House - a charity that explores Christianity through it's Jewish roots and theology and aims to reach Jewish people through sharing God's love for them. Piers continues our series on Noah, reading from Genesis 9:8-17 and exploring what it might mean for God to make a covenantal promise with us and how he wants to use us to accomplish his purposes. We apologise for the lack of audio quality over the first minute of this talk due to an unforeseen technical problem.

19th March | As Part 2 of our Vision Sunday series, Tom reads from 2 Corinthians 9 and asks us how we can go deeper in our vision, action and blessing to our city. Following on from last week's call to abide in the presence of God in order to bear fruit, Tom explores how we can invest and play our part financially in bearing fruit in Fiveways.

12th March | On Vision Sunday, Tom challenges us to think about how we play our part in the vision at St Matthias. By looking at John 15, we see that Jesus' vision for each of us is to remain abiding in him and bear fruit and as we journey into the next stage at the life of St Matthias, Tom considers how we can go deeper into that abiding.

5th March | Tom kicks off our series looking at the life and story of Noah, in Genesis. After a difficult and strange week for Brighton and the community in Hollingdean and Fiveways, Tom reflects on what it means to live in a broken world and how God reacts to the problem of sin that is anywhere and everywhere around us.

26th February | We were so excited to welcome Clark Buys, part of the Theology team at Tearfund, to speak on Sunday. Clark shares his passion for making prayerful space for God to speak, explores what a contemplative spirituality could look like and mean for us and invites us to encounter God in the silence and stillness. This is one not to miss!

19th February | This week, Lisa finishes off our Gifted series by exploring the gifts of compassion and mercy. Through the Parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15, we begin to understand the movement of the Father consistently towards the lost and hurting and Lisa demonstrates what can be accomplished when we truly feel and understand God's heart for the broken, and are motivated to action.

12th February | Helena continues our Gifted series, exploring the ins and outs of what 'evangelism' means. She speaks about how doing evangelism can sometimes create discomfort and awkwardness but that when done well, evangelism is motivated out of love for others and a vision to see God's love change lives.

5th February || In an interview with Ali & Sean Avard, Tom asks how we begin to identify what spiritual gifts God may have equipped us with and how we can begin to use them. Sean shares from Romans 12, and encourages us that in using our spiritual gifts, our final aim should always be to love others with everything we have.

29th January | Tom continues our Gifted series, exploring how God can work through us to do amazing things by his spiritual gifts. In looking at the second half of 1 Corinthians 12, we see that Paul imagines the church as a body, where all of us have spiritual gifts that play our part in building up the collective whole and making more of an impact by working together.

22nd January | We are delighted to welcome Angie Green to St Matthias, as she shares with us about the gifts of healing as part of our Gifted series, exploring  how God can work through us to do amazing things by his spiritual gifts. She speaks deeply from 1 Corinthians 12, about healing and restoration and how might we deal with when prayer goes unanswered and healing does not occur.

15th January | Tom kicks off our Gifted series, which explores how we are all equipped to bring about change and transformation and how God can work through us to do amazing things by his spiritual gifts. By looking at 1 Corinthians 12, we gain a picture of how God might speak through us to our local community and those around us.

8th January | On Send Out Sunday as we celebrated with the Harleys and the team in their new adventure partnering with All Saint's, Patcham and The Ascension, Westdene, Tom encourages us from the story of Nehemiah 1 to think and pray about the calling and passions that God has placed on our hearts to change and transform the world around us.

25th December | On Christmas Day, Tom shares with us why Jesus came into the world - to bring goodness, freedom and to set in place a way for us to know God fully and be restored.

24th December | Jon shares at our Christmas Eve Nativity service about the power of being held, and how the Christmas story shows us that Jesus holds us through the most joyful and most difficult times in life.

18th December | Abby rounds off our series unpacking John 1:1-14, and explores how Jesus not only brings life in all it's fulness, but also how Christmas shows us that the true life is breaking in the here and now amongst us through him.

11th December | Tom continues in our God With Us series, with three reflections on what it means for us for Jesus to be the Light.