Acts: Ephesus - Joel Wade
This week, Joel teaches on Paul’s time in Ephesus (Acts 19) – looking at how the power of Jesus led to radical devotion to Jesus, which led to a city transformed for Jesus.
Jul 22, 2025•34 min•Season 45Ep. 66
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Acts: The Storm - Adnan Khan
This week, Adnan teaches from Acts 27 – looking at Paul’s climactic and dramatic sea voyage towards Rome, in which he and his companions face a storm and shipwreck. We explore what the story teaches about facing resistance and challenge, and how these shape us as followers of Jesus – rooting us in God’s presence, putting our faith into practice, and pointing others to the hope of Jesus.
Jul 20, 2025•38 min•Season 45Ep. 67
Standalone: Faithful Presence - David Stroud
This week, David Stroud (Central Service) teaches from Daniel chapter 1, looking at how we live faithfully as God’s people in a society of conflicting values. We look at how Daniel’s faith transformed his work into service and worship, gave him courage in the face of challenges and consequences, and how his daily life was fuelled by prayer. The story of Daniel gives us a picture of how followers of Jesus make a difference for God wherever they are, and can work for the renewal of their surroundi...
Jul 13, 2025•31 min•Season 45Ep. 65
Acts: Priscilla and Aquila - Louisa Richards
This week at our Central service, Lou Richards teaches from the story of Priscilla and Aquila (Acts 18:24-28). We look at how their example encourages us to embrace our role in spreading the gospel, especially during a time of spiritual openness, and how we can identify the ordinary spaces and relationships can become ‘holy ground’ for ministry. We explore how God uses our availability and obedience, not perfection, to transform lives and communities.
Jul 06, 2025•32 min•Season 45Ep. 64
Acts: Athens: The Unknown God - Adnan Khan
This week, Adnan (Mile End Service) teaches from Acts 17 – looking at Paul’s time in Athens. We see what the story teaches about communicating the hope of Jesus in a spiritually contested city, and how the passage points to the reality of God’s presence in making sense of our world, relationship with God making sense of us, and the resurrection making sense of our hope in Jesus.
Jun 29, 2025•39 min•Season 45Ep. 63
Acts: Thessalonica - Catherine Ishola
This week, Catherine (Sutton Service) explores Acts 17:1-9, where Paul’s preaching in Thessalonica challenged societal norms and established Jesus as King, not Caesar. His message was met with both disruption and persecution, but nevertheless led to forming a vibrant church community. We see how Jesus not only transformed Paul’s life, but how his Jesus’ presence continues to flip our priorities and values, making our lives point to a different kingdom.
Jun 22, 2025•43 min•Season 45Ep. 62
Standalone: Home: Learning to be family - Darren Wolf
This week at our Mile End service, Darren Wolf (guest speaker) explored Jesus’ radical redefinition of family in Mark 3. We see how following Jesus shifts our allegiance and identity into a new spiritual community, which challenges both traditional and modern-day notions family. The Church as our new family calls for commitment and connection, as we live in covenant with brothers and sisters in Christ.
Jun 15, 2025•41 min•Season 45Ep. 61
Acts: Corinth - Jonathan Sanders
This week, Jonathan (Central Service) taught from Acts 18 – looking at Paul’s time in Corinth. We looked at what the passage teaches us about living with kingdom purpose wherever we are, holding to God’s promise to overcome fear when sharing our faith, and fighting complacency and apathy in our discipleship to Jesus.
Jun 15, 2025•31 min•Season 45Ep. 60
Acts: Jerusalem Council - Joel Wade
This week, Joel (Central Service) explores one of the most crucial moments of the early church at the council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). We explored the ‘tidal’ nature of faith: diving into God’s presence, which then ripples out to others. Through the passage, we see our call as disciples to embrace opportunities to share our faith, and embody a diverse, open, and formative Christian community.
Jun 08, 2025•46 min•Season 45Ep. 59
Acts: Antioch - Andy Tilsley
Andy unpacks the story of the church at Antioch, and the power of unity and diversity in the church, and what steps we can take to build a genuinely multicultural community.
Jun 01, 2025•37 min•Season 45Ep. 58
Standalone: Life In His Name - Andy Tilsley
This week at our Mile End service, Andy Tilsley preached from John’s Gospel and its connection to our longing for ‘Eden life’ – the fullness of life intended by God since creation in Genesis 1. We look at how Jesus, as the ‘second Adam’, re-enters Eden through his death and resurrection, and invites us back into deep personal connection with God, and commissions us to bring others into this life they were created for.
May 18, 2025•32 min•Season 45Ep. 57
Standalone: Justice and Compassion - Haejin Shim Fujimura
This week in our Central service, we had guest speaker Haejin Shim Fujimura. Haejin Shim is an experienced lawyer and co-founder and CEO of Embers International, who work to restore and empower victims of injustice and prevent human trafficking. In this talk, she explores the story of the paralysed man in Mark 2. We look at the faith and intercessory love of his friends, who carry his burden to Jesus for healing and forgiveness, and what this means for our faith and call as disciples.
May 11, 2025•26 min•Season 45Ep. 56
Acts: Philippi - Andy Tilsley
This week, Andy (Sutton Service) speaks on the Philippian church in Acts 16, focussing on their call to reach the unchurched. As recent UK trends show a growing openness to faith, we see how the passage urges both prayer and action in our context – recognising salvation is wholly God’s work in and through us as followers of Jesus.
May 11, 2025•36 min•Season 45Ep. 55
Standalone: Pursuing God’s Presence - Eric & Erica Anderson
Eric and Erica Anderson, from Ark Church in Copenhagen, came to share about some of the amazing things they’ve seen happen in their church over the last 18 months and, speaking from 1 Kings 19, encouraged us to pray and pursue more of God’s presence.
May 04, 2025•40 min•Season 45Ep. 54
Acts: Samaritans and Sorcerers - Joel Wade
This week, Joel (Central Service) looks at the early church’s growth in Samaria (Acts 8), where ordinary believers spread the gospel while facing persecution and resistance. We look at the need for selfless motivation in serving God, in contrast to the demonic allure for personal power (exemplified by Simon the Sorcerer), and how the invitation to the Way of Jesus opens the door to participate in God’s mission with love and humility.
Apr 27, 2025•43 min•Season 45Ep. 53
Standalone: Easter talk - Natalie Powell
This Easter Sunday, Natalie (Central Service) looks at the true confidence that comes from Jesus’ resurrection, over any earthly confidence which are temporary and fleeting. Whether we consider ourselves Christian or not, we can all recognise the life-altering significance of Christ’s rising, and are invited to deeper explore this foundational claim.
Apr 20, 2025•40 min•Season 45Ep. 52
Acts: Philippan Jailer - Lyndsey Seale
For our baby dedications at Mile End, Lyndsey recounts the story of Paul and Silas's miraculous prison release, the jailer’s conversion, and his entire household being baptised. Through it, we look at how the story of Scripture transforms our understanding of who we are as God’s 'image-bearers’, and how this can teach our children not just to believe in biblical principles, but to be ‘Jesus-people’ in our world today.
Apr 13, 2025•18 min•Season 45Ep. 51
Standalone: Resilient Faith - David
This week in our Sutton service, David looked at the importance of building a resilient faith, and the role persecution has often played in that regard in the Bible and church history.
Apr 06, 2025•32 min•Season 45Ep. 50
Acts: Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch - Adnan Khan
This week, Adnan teaches on the encounter between Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8. We look at what the story reveals about listening to God’s Spirit, believing that he has something to say to each of us, and how hearing God is rooted in Scripture.
Mar 30, 2025•41 min•Season 45Ep. 49
Generosity: Generosity & Presence - Andy Tilsley
Andy spoke from Malachi chapter 3, and the broken state of the nation, and the desperate need for God to break in, much like our own time. God's message to the people then was to put God first in all things, including their financial life, for the sake of the nation and their future, and he speaks the same message to us today.
Mar 23, 2025•38 min•Season 45Ep. 48
Generosity: Generosity & Mission - Joel Wade
In this weeks talk Joel examines the biblical pattern for generosity and how it might inspire us to get caught up in Jesus’ vision to transform the city.
Mar 09, 2025•32 min•Season 45Ep. 47
Standalone: Gather 25 - Lars Due-Christensen
This week we gathered all Christ Church London services together for Gather25. Lars Due-Christensen taught from Moses’ experience of the burning bush (Exodus 3), and what this means for our call to approach God’s Presence with curiosity, surrender, and humility, in order to hear his voice and experience his Presence in our own lives.
Mar 02, 2025•23 min•Season 45Ep. 45
Acts: Faith - Joel Wade
What is faith? Why is it so important? After the healing of the man at the Beautiful Gate, Joel explores the importance of Peter’s biography of faith, and how faith in Jesus transformed him from a man cowering in the shadows, to one who can stand up in front of thousands to preach the good news of Jesus.
Feb 23, 2025•41 min•Season 45Ep. 46
Acts: Persecution - Andy Tilsley
Andy looks at the story of the stoning of Stephen in Acts 6 and 7, unpacking the amazing vision Stephen has before he dies, and what it means for us today as followers of Jesus. As we pursue God for revival, we also examine how we should live while we’re waiting for it.
Feb 23, 2025•36 min•Season 45Ep. 44
Acts: Community - Jonathan Sanders
This week Jonathan teaches from Acts 2, exploring community through the lens of Jesus, and how our call to follow Jesus together is vital to being formed as person of love, for the sake of others.
Feb 16, 2025•45 min•Season 45Ep. 43
Standalone: Following Jesus through persecution - Open Doors
At Mile End, we had the privilege of hearing Eti’s story of following Jesus through hostility, and how God met with Eti and her husband in the face of resistance to their faith. We also got to hear more about how Open Doors are serving the persecuted church worldwide, and how we can support and pray for their crucial work.
Feb 09, 2025•56 min•Season 45Ep. 42
Acts: Temples - Adnan Khan
Temples are a big theme in the book of Acts, and were epicentres of controversy for the early church. Temples are places of power and systems of life centred on what’s most precious to us. This week, Adnan looks at what it means to live as temples of God’s presence, and what we can expect as we centre our lives on Jesus as the ‘Cornerstone’ of a new spiritual superstructure.
Feb 09, 2025•40 min•Season 45Ep. 41
Acts: Pentecost - Andy Tilsley
As we continue our series through the book of Acts, Andy looks at the day of Pentecost, the gift of tongues, and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the early church. As Andy unpacks the promise which still stands for us 2000 years later, we explore what we need to do to encounter more of God’s Spirit and power today.
Jan 26, 2025•38 min•Season 45Ep. 40
Acts: The Ascension - Joel Wade
This week, Joel starts our new teaching series on the book of Acts. We look at how the Ascension of Jesus shapes our encounter of God’s presence as a church, and our longing to see his kingdom in our world.
Jan 19, 2025•28 min•Season 45Ep. 39
Standalone: God’s Presence in Times of Pressure - Lars Due-Christensen
Lars looks at the biblical guidance for people who have an experience of having lost inner territory in times of pressure.
Jan 12, 2025•48 min•Season 45Ep. 38
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