Talks And Sermons From St Matthew's

Join us as Pads shares with us the story of Mary receiving the news that she is to give birth to God's son and how, in doing so, she gives an encouraging example of living by faith that we can follow today.

Join us as Carol opens up the story of Mary and Joseph and their journey of faith at our Carol Service.

As we reach the end of our series on Exodus, we come to the high point of Moses encountering God's glory. Join us as Pads Dolphin shows us what we can learn from Moses in our pursuit of God.

While its easy to look at the Children of Israel in Exodus and criticise, it may be that their issues and temptations are not so very different from our own. When we make mistakes, as we all will God is there waiting for us.

When we stop giving thanks to God our perspective on life can change in many ways. Join us as our visiting speaker, Senior Paster from Kennet Valley Free Church, Graham Cooke, encourages us to keep our eyes focussed on God and our lives in proper perspective.

Join us at the start of Advent as Carol encourages us to make time amongst the busyness in the run-up to Christmas and to use this season as a time for looking at Jesus and waiting on God.

Join us as Andrea Baker shares with us a scene from Jesus' crucifixion, where two criminals who are dying with him sets us an example and a challenge to consider how we choose to respond to Jesus.

Join us as Pads Dolphin shared with us how the way to eternal life is not determined by how well we keep the Ten Commandments, but whether we live a life style of love, living out the spirit of the law. Please note: We apologise for the whining sound in this recording and are investigating its cause and solution.

Join us as Pads Dolphin challenges us to think about how we are going to use the gifts and opoprtunities that God has given us and whether we are prepared to take the risk to get things wrong for sake of doing work for Him and His kingdom.

Join us for our monthly, contemporary evening service as Pads Dolphin leads us in thinking about being the sort of people that God chooses to use to fulfil His purposes.

Jesus’ words at the start of the Sermon on the Mount are filled with hope for all who feel that they are poor in Spirit. Moses, too, put his hope in God when leading the Israelites out of Egypt and through the Red Sea. Join us as Kirstie Dolphin invites us to think about our God who lives beyond our circumstances and offers us true hope in every situation.

Join us as Pads Dolphin shares with us the story of Jesus healing a blind man, Barthimaeus, and encourages us to think of the blindness in our own lives.

Join us as John and Jennifer Roper from The Gideons International come and speak to us about The Passover and then share some amazing stories of how God has met with people through the Bible and the work of the Gideons around the world.

Join us as Carol speaks to us about God's blessing and sharing it with others at our all age Harvest service.

Join us as Pads Dolphin shows us how Jesus exercised his authority in humility and how Paul encourages to do the same, having the same attitude of Christ Jesus, serving others and laying ourselves down for others.

Join us for the second week of our Discipleship Explored course, as Colin Harbidge speaks to us about Paul's amazing statement, "to live is Christ, to die is gain" and how this offers a radically different perspective on the world.

The story of Matthew chosing to follow Jesus poses us with three challenges - to put Jesus first, to share the good news and to be merciful. Join us as Paul Fulton opens this passage for us at our Back to Church Sunday service.

Join us as our guest Rev. Dr. Joanna Collicutt shows us how Jesus and Paul teach us that we must resist the temptation to judge at all costs, with judgement belonging to God alone.

Join us for our evening service as Mark Morgan encourages us to imagine the life of the apostle Paul

The Pharisees and Jews had lost their way and lost sight of who Jesus was and we can do the same. Join us as Carol Morgan encourages us and reminds us that we are called to intimacy with Christ, not to uphold human rules.