Talks And Sermons From St Matthew's

Jesus came to show us that God's Kingdom is an upside-down kingdom, where honour is given, not taken and where those who seek to honour others are themselves honoured. Join us as Carol shares this word with us at our Sunday morning service.

When an oppressed woman appeared at the Synagogue, Jesus showed us that true worship is not about what happens in the service, but how we reach out to others with the love of God. When we do this, God gets all the glory.

When God's people Judah turned from him to serve foreign Gods He didn't give up His desire to be in relationship with them, but had a plan for restoration just as He does today. Join us as Carol Morgan shows us how seeking relationship with God is the most important thing for our faith and for His purposes to be fulfilled in the world.

Join us as Pads Dolphin encourages us to use the past to remind us of what a faithful God we have and believe his promise of salvation and eternal life in the future in order to be set free to live in the present, without fear and anxiety.

We come to a saving faith in Christ Jesus by His grace but it doesn’t stop there! If we are not intentional about growing more like Jesus, getting to know Him and His ways intimately, we may become deceived and forgetful of the truth. Join us as Tracy Watkins explores verses from the apostle Peter’s passionate final legacy to the early Church.

One of the biggest questions that we're faced with in life is "If God is good, why does bad stuff happen?" and this is exactly the question raised by Jesus' Parable of the Weeds. Join us as Pads Dolphin leads us through this essential question at one of our monthly baptism services.

With so many people in the world that we could be helping, how can we work out who we should be giving our attention to? Come and join us as we consider the famous parable of the Good Samaritan and learn how we can ask God to show us who to help and how we can help them.

There is no other message like that of the cross of Jesus and yet too often we forget to think about it, consider it, find our hope in it. Join us as Chris Everett reminds us of the truth and hope that is to be found within it.

Helping others carry their burdens is part of what it means to love our neighbour, but we are bought up to think it shows weakness to let others help us. When we don't share our burdens, as God asks us to, we can get burned out. Join us as Pads Dolphin shares with us how we as a church can learn to help each other through life, with Jesus as our ultimate example. We hope you enjoy this sermon from St. Matthew's - we'd love to see you there in person any time you like!

It's a fairly common expectation that we should want our children to grow up to be successful, wealthy, healthy and comfortable. But in the parable of the rich fool, Jesus challenges us to consider that all that we work and strive for over our lives could be for nothing if we don't live long enough to enjoy it. Join us at our June baptism service, where Revd Pads Dolphin talks us through Jesus' teaching on how to live our lives building up things that we will enjoy for all eternity.

When Jesus healed a demon possessed man, the man's life was forever changed for the better. But the crowds that saw this transformation were scared. Why were they scared? What might we be scared of when we think of Jesus transforming our lives? Join us as Pads Dolphin explores these questions.

It is natural for us to attempt to keep ourselves on course for Heaven by going to church, sticking to the rules and generally ticking God's boxes to keep Him pleased. But as this week's gospel story shows us, Jesus is much more concerned about the state of our hearts than our outer religious life. Come and join us as Pads Dolphin explores the famous encounter between Jesus and 'sinful woman'.

When Jesus saw the funeral procession of a widow's son, he had compassion on that widow, raised her son from the dead and changed their lives together. Join us as Pads Dolphin talks to us about how Jesus still changes lives today.

Fearing what others think of us, we tend to hide our real selves and pretend to be someone we are not. But when we learn to love and trust God with all our hearts, we can lose our fear and become the people God meant us to be.

God loves and seeks out the lost, the outsider, the marginalised. We need to be a church with open doors, both to take the good news out to others, and to be good news when new people come in.

When Jesus was asked what someone must do to enter the 'Kingdom of God', he said they must be born again. But how can someone be born again? What does that mean? Join us as Andrea Baker speaks to us our monthly Family Baptism service.

As we celebrate Pentecost, The Reverend Canon Jonathan Wilmot reminds of Jesus' teaching on prayer and asking God, our good and trustworthy father, for what he knows we need and encourages us to consider that there is no greater thing to pray for than His Holy Spirit.

Join us as Dan Heyward talks us through Jesus' famous prayer for the future church and looks at what His words might mean for us in the church today.

With everything that God gives us, He calls us to be faithful and loyal servants, taking His gifts and using them for His glory. No gift is more important precious to the world than the Gospel message, which is the hope for our salvation. Join us as Chris Everett unpacks this famous parable to see what Jesus has to say about what it means to make the most of what has been entrusted to us, and why it's so important that we do so. This talk was recorded at one of our informal monthly evening services, whe

Continuing our look at the nature of the early church community, in months and years following Jesus' resurrection and ascension, Pads Dolphin looks at the role that the Holy Spirit had in leading, guiding and directing the first Christians in their mission. This talk was recorded at one of our regular Sunday morning services. If you'd like to come along, you are welcome to join us every Sunday morning at 10am.