Worship with Everything
In this week's episode, Will explored how we, Worship with Everything, our whole bodies and emotions. Passage: 2 Samuel 6 : 14-21 To find out more visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Apr 01, 2025•30 min
St Nics Durham
Found in the heart of the city of Durham, St Nics is a church for everyone. We are a community of people who together seek to love God, love one another and to love our neighbours. Whatever your background, status or identity you’ll find a warm welcome amongst our growing community of disciples of all ages, all on different parts of the same journey together as followers of Jesus Christ.
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Worship as Praise: A Sacrifice of Praise
Welcome to another week in Lent, during which we are exploring the theme, Worship. In this Sunday's sermon, our vicar Will reflects on the passage in Acts, illuminating how it can help us to see how we can worship God in the midst of pain. Passage: Acts 16:16-31 To find out more visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Apr 01, 2025•31 min
Worship as Praise: Adoration
In this week's episode we are blessed to hear from both Will, our vicar and Elise, our Worship Pastor about how Worship is an act of giving praise to God. Passage: Matthew 6:9-13 & Psalm 100 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Mar 17, 2025•24 min
Why We Worship
Beginning our Lent series on Worship, Will discusses what Worship is, and why we do it. He reminds us that wroship is not just an activity but a way of living that places God above everything in our lives. Passage: Matthew 4:1-11 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Mar 17, 2025•27 min
Alpha: Who is the Holy Spirit?
Following our Alpha series, this week's episode covers the question, Who is the Holy Spirit? Passage: Hebrews 11:1-16 & 39-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Feb 26, 2025•21 min
Alpha: Why and How Do I Pray?
It's the fifth week in our Alpha series, and we are exploring the questions, Why and How do we pray, by looking at the passage in Matthew with Jesus' model of prayer in the Lord's prayer. Passage: Matthew 6:5-15 To find out more visit www.stnics.org.uk
Feb 24, 2025•21 min
Alpha: How Can I Have Faith?
In this week's episode, Will discusses the passage detailing some of the people filled with such faith in the Bible and what it means for us answering the question, How can I have faith?. Passage: Hebrews 11:1-16 & 39-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Feb 11, 2025•33 min
Alpha: Why did Jesus die?
Continuing the Alpha series, this week Peter unpacks the question, Why did Jesus die? By looking at the passage in Romans, he explores ideas of suffering and God's love and grace, and how Jesus' death brings us so much. Passage: Romans 5:1-11 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Feb 11, 2025•19 min
Alpha: Who is Jesus?
In our second week in the Alpha series, we are exploring the question, Who is Jesus? In this episode, Helen, an ordinand at nearby Cranmer Hall, guides us to reflect on what this question means for us, and how this week's passage can help us in that. Passage: John 10: 17-30 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Feb 11, 2025•23 min
Alpha: Is there more to life than this?
This week we kicked off our whole church Alpha series, journeying through some big questions about our faith. This episode Will explores the first question, Is there more to life than this, through the passage, to see how the Bible and Jesus answered this question. Passage: John 10: 7-15 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Jan 27, 2025•21 min
Come and See
In our final service before Christmas, Peter Johnson continues our series, Come and See, by thinking about what Advent is really about and what it means for us. Passage: John 1: 32-42 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Jan 27, 2025•18 min
Come and See
In David Day's final sermon, he explores the passage in which John the Baptist is questioned about his status and position which he relates to the coming of Christ. David Day's draws from John's reaction the importance of understanding our ability to be a voice that God can work through to help those opening their hearts to God's presence and the knowledge that Jesus is here among us. Passage: John 1: 19-31 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Dec 18, 2024•28 min
Come and See
In the second sermon in our Advent series, Come and See, Helen, an ordinand at Cramner Hall, shares some thoughts about this passage in John and the illustration of the ajar door in our series logo. She talks about how Advent can be a special moment for us to come and see the spelndor of our very real God. Passages: John 1: 14-18 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Dec 17, 2024•18 min
Come and See
Welcome to Advent! This week's episode commences our Advent services, where Steve shares some thoughts about these two passages from John about the light of God. Steve explores this concept and reminds us that His light is unwavering, reliable, and that God's work is always happening around us. Passages: John 1:1-13 & 45-46 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Dec 17, 2024•16 min
Christ is King
In preparation for Advent we celebrated Christ the King this Sunday, with a shorter sermon and more time to respond. This episode Jamie explores Christ the King, introducing some thoughts and questions about his kingship and his Kingdom, from the passages and the whole Bible. Passages: Dan 7: 9-10; 13&14 John 18:33-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/
Nov 25, 2024•15 min
Our Commitments: Who are we to be?
This episode closes the series, Our Commitments, where we have been exploring what our core values are as a church, as we look to the next ten years and how those values will shape the church that we are to be. This week Will reflects on this process and the importance of the reality of God being center of our church as we move forward. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & 13: 1-3 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Nov 19, 2024•23 min
Our Commitments: Who are we to be?
In this week's episode we hear from Hannah, our Youth Missioner, as she explores our third value as a church in our current series, Our Commitments, that we will be a church that empowers leaders and teams that we will send out. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & 13: 1-3 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Nov 19, 2024•30 min
Our Commitments: Who are we to be?
In the third sermon in our series, Our Commitments, Will discusses our third commitment, which is to seek the welfare of the city, connecting to how the those addressed in the passage in Jeremiah, were called to bring value to their city, while still remaining true to who they were and remaining to their own values. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & Jeremiah 29: 4-7 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Nov 04, 2024•20 min
Our Commitments: Who Are We to Be?
We continue in our current series exploring what our values are that will shape the vision for the next ten years. In this episode Will unpacks the first value, forming disciples as a church, what that looks like, how we will do it and why it is important. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & Mark 1: 16-20 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Oct 21, 2024•25 min
Our Commitments: Who Are We to Be?
This episode begins our new series, Our Commitments, as we look to the future of St Nics as we reflect together on what God is calling us to be as a church in the next decade and what core commitments will shape that. In this sermon Will introduces this idea by looking at answering the question of formation of the church's character. Passage: John 20: 19-21 | Acts 11: 19-26 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Oct 14, 2024•26 min
Who We Are: Remembering as an antidote to self-obsession
In this episode Allie Willcox draws to a close our current sermon series, Who We Are, that has been exploring the theme of remembering in order to move forward. This sermon focused on how we can chose how we remember our history, which in turn influences our present self and identity. Passage: Deuteronomy 26:1-12 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Oct 07, 2024•23 min
Who We Are: Remembering as an antidote to polarisation
In this episode, Maeve continues the series on Who We Are, by exploring the power of remembering and how it can help bridge divides within communities by understanding our past and what has come before. Remembrance is not just about looking back; it’s about learning how to move forward together. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Sep 30, 2024•20 min
Who We Are: Remembering as an antidote to never-ending newness.
In this episode of our ongoing series, 'Who We Are,' Will continues to reflect on the theme of remembrance, exploring how it can serve as an antidote to the constant desire for newness in our society today. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Sep 24, 2024•17 min
Who We Are: Remembering as an antidote to greed.
In this sermon, David Day speaks about the freedom we can receive when we engage with generosity with people we meet, as part of the series on Who We Are. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Sep 24, 2024•22 min
Who We Are: Remembering as a counter-cultural act.
Will begins the sermon series, Who We Are, by exploring how remembering can help us to understand ourselves as a church. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Sep 24, 2024•23 min
Trinity Sunday | John 3:1-17
This is a sermon on Trinity Sunday by our ordinand on placement, Tim Riman. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
May 26, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Pentecost Sunday | Acts 2:1-47
This sermon is by Revd Maeve Sherlock as she closes our Resurrected Church sermon series. This sermon was recorded on Pentecost. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
May 19, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 7
The Resurrected Church: Devoted to Giving 2 | Luke 21:1-4
In this episode, our vicar Will is looking at giving again, this time answering some of the more practical questions people may have about giving. This concludes our Easter-Pentecost series looking at what it means to be a church in light of the resurrection. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
May 12, 2024•25 min•Season 5Ep. 6
The Resurrected Church: Devoted to Giving | Exodus 35:20-36:7
In this episode, Will speaks about what giving what might look like for each of us and what it might look like as a community. This is part of a wider series exploring giving. To find out more visit https://www.stnics.org.uk/giving
May 05, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 5
The Resurrected Church: Devoted To Praise | Acts 16:22-34
In this episode, Amelia Enstone brings us the third sermon in our series The Resurrected Church. This week, she talks to us about what it means to be devoted to praise in our own lives & our families and in the life of our church. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk
Apr 21, 2024•16 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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