Join us for our weekly talks from Gather Community Church Eastbourne - a church in the Bridgemere community. Hear inspirational, Biblical and often challenging messages that help us follow Jesus.
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Roland Brown - The Power of Humility
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Roland helps us explore the importance of humility as a foundation for all the work we do in Jesus' name. A detailed bible overview and real-life examples capture the heart of vital theme
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Churches that Change Communities - Natalie Williams
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Guest speaker Natalie Williams talks to us about the work of Jubilee + and their Churches that Change Communities project. She shares from her own experience and the work done by her local church in Hastings. Biblical, heartfelt and practical insights.
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The Cross - Palm Sunday to Passover - Judith Moir
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Judith kicks starts our new series on "The Cross", by talking to us about "Palm Sunday to Passover". She explores the meaning of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, the clearing of the temple and the events that led to the Passover celebration.
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Guest speaker Roger Sutton helps churches and towns work together to respond to human needs in their local communities. Factual, funny and provocative thoughts on Mission, Prayer and Compassion
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Les talks about his favourite subject - praising God. The distilled wisdom of thinking about worship, Jesus, songs and much more come together in this inspirational talk.
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The Fingerprints of God - Medicine & Healing
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Wisdom can help us lead healthier more resilient lives. Herbs and plants, noted in several passages, help restore our bodies. And God also brings about supernatural healing. Dave Roberts helps us explore these 3 fingerprints of God.
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Stewardship - How your giving helps the congregation and it's work
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God gives all of us resources to help us live for him, serve others and enjoy the place where we are living. Roland Brown helps us explore biblical patterns to help us live with wisdom and use those resources well. He explains the church budget and how our contributions of money are used. He gently provokes us to consider additional giving.…
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The Fingerprints of God - The Witness of Nature
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One of the ways that we can see the work of God around us is noted and rooted in the belief that God created all that we see around us in the natural world. This in turn speaks to us of his beauty and his character. Join Sharon Roberts as she explores this and helps us understand what it means for us now.…
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The Emotions of Jesus - The Imitation of Jesus - Esther Wiggins
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Jesus wept, rejoiced, mourned and was moved with compassion. Esther helps us explore the emotions of Jesus and reflect on how that impacts us and how we respond to others.
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The Fingerprints of God - Created to Flourish - Ray Whitby
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God's creational impulse is captured in the phrase 'He saw that is was good', repeated 6 times in Genesis 1. Ray helps us start to think about what that meant then and what it means now for our understanding of our core relationship with God and His desire that we might flourish.
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The Imitation of Jesus - Wonderful Counsellor - Emma Spalding
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Emma shares about the 3 fold description of Jesus as 'Wonderful Counsellor, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace' and the whole life perspective this gives us as followers of Jesus
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The Kingdom of God - The Parable of the Yeast - Judith Moir
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Judith helps us explore how a small ingredient can make deep change within bread and how Jesus uses that as a picture of the influence of the Kingdom of Heaven within our communities.
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He is Risen - 8 minutes of Easter Insight
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Dave Roberts shares the stories behind the story of Easter and how the speak to us of God's desire to restore us and cause us to flourish.
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Faith Weave - Key Moments in Our Faith Growth
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Dave starts by sharing some key prophetic encouragements from the days before this sermon. He goes on to look at how our faith and that of our children grows gradually but is often punctuated by 'peak experiences' that help us discover new depth in our relationship with God.
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Faith Weave - Filled with Compassion
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Jenny Brown explores how we help our children and our adults discover practical compassion as part of their understanding of how faith in Jesus grows and is worked out in their daily lives. This series is based on insights from the Faithfull Generation book.
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Sowing the Seeds of Love - A Reasonable Faith
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Ray Whitby loves a 400 page book on apologetics and the reasonableness of faith in the God who came to us in the person of Jesus. So who better to help us understand that our sharing of the message of Jesus must be salted with a willingness to hear the doubt of others and respond with clarity and grace…
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Sowing the Seeds of Love - Culture and the Arts
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Les Moir, an ambassador of worship and the word, around the world, shares on how the message of the love of God, expressed in Jesus, is planted in our culture through arts and creativity.
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A Biblical Understanding of Our Response to Refugees
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Dave Roberts interviews Gill about the work of Sanctuary in Eastbourne and the practical, legal emotional care that they offer to people fleeing war, conflict and more. Gill then shares from the Book of Leviticus about the biblical imperative to care for the stranger or foreigner in your midst. This talk is part of an occasional series on foundatio…
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The Kingdom Of Heaven - What is it and why does it matter
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The Kingdom Of Heaven is a key theme in the book of Matthew. Dave Roberts encourages us to ask 5 questions. What was it, when was it, where was it seen, who took part in it and how did it become part of the understanding of Jesus followers. In his characteristic fashion Dave then asks us to explore what it means for us now…
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Emily Lynch shares on the nature of friendship. Dave Roberts then explores what the place of reputation is in becoming credible carriers of the message of Jesus is in a community.
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Confidence in Jesus and Our God Stories - Dave Roberts
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Dave reminds us that there is such a thing as proper confidence, assured but humble, resilient but not deaf to the realities of peoples lives.He introduces us to confidence in the story of God, confidence in Jesus, confidence in our community and confidence in our calling as image bearers for God in the world.…
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It takes a church to raise a Christian - Caroline Kimber
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We are not made to live, learn or go on the journey with God on our own. Jesus showed us patterns of friendship that ranged from one best friend to 72 core disciples and 120 that gathered to wait for His Spirit to be poured out. Caroline brings her wisdom to this important subject.
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Ness Wilson - A vision for places and spaces
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Ness Wilson is the Pioneer UK Leader. She visited us to film at the Community Garden as part of the preparation for the network conference in March '23. 5 other church expressions will be filmed for the conference, which will explore how we join in with the mission of God by creating community in the 'spaces and places' of our neighbourhoods. Prepa…
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The names of Jesus - Creator - Ray Whitby
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The Bible suggests that Jesus was active in the creation of the world. Ray reminds us that it all 'belongs to God" and then explores what that means for us in 2022. It is a very countercultural thought. Listen and discover why.
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The names of Jesus - Redeemer - Roland Brown
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What does it mean when we describe Jesus as our Redeemer? What did it mean for people to be bought back from those who kept them in slavery? How does this impact our understanding of what Jesus has done in our lives? Roland paints the scriptural picture for us.
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Being a Mission Minded Church - Esther Wiggins - Restoration
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Esther explores the story of the woman with the issue of blood to help us understand that Jesus did not merely heal her through her act of touching the hem of his garment, but he also restored her very publically after years of social and spiritual isolation. Esther then helps us discern how this will help us understand our mission in the world tod…
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The Prayers of Jesus - The Prayers of Peace
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My peace I leave with you was on Jesus lips 3 times in John 20. This is just one of the many times peace and prayer are connected in the life and ministry of Jesus. Peace is rooted in the word Shalom which has multiple layers of meaning including welfare, wholeness and calm and abundance. In this core teaching for us a congregation Dave Roberts not…
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Jesus introduced new understandings of prayer but also drew deeply on the existing traditions of the ancient faith that honoured Yahweh. At the start of a new series Dave Roberts, part of our team and a prolific author on prayer, paints the picture of how Jesus prayed at home, in the wilderness and in the temple and synagogue.…
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Jesus and Justice - Justice for the Poor
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Ray Whitby looks at the gospel patterns that help us to understand poverty and the Christian response. Jesus talks often of the poor and takes practical steps to support them.
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Jesus and Justice - Justice for All People
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Les and Judith lead us through an overview of key principles regarding Jesus as the personification of Justice and his desire to ensure justice for all. They note how this impacts our understanding of racism and remind us how justice finds expression through the local churh
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Jesus the Liberator - Introducing the Jesus & Justice Series
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If you need to know what God is like you look at Jesus. Jesus says that he does what he sees the Father doing. The prophet Isaiah says that God loves justice. So how would we anticipate that being demonstrated in the accounts of Jesus life. Dave Roberts introduces a new series on Jesus and Justice and suggests that their are rich veins of wisdom, c…
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Journeys into Silence - Dave Roberts
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Jesus retreats several times in the Gospel accounts to pray alone. This often happened before major decisions or challenges. What can we learn from Jesus actions that will impact our lives today
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This week Caroline talks to us about the examples of other people and our community. How can their journeys inspire us in our journey with God.
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To be a Pilgrim - Finding the truths that shape your life
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Ruth Kenward shares on the journeys and retreats of some ancient Irish saints. How did their retreat from the world shape them for profound impact on their return to their locality and influence many others further afield. How you could retreat so that you can advance? This is the third in our Journeys with God series…
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Deliberate Journeys - When Jesus Calls Us To An Adventure
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Dave Roberts shares in the second of our new series on Journeys with Jesus. The focus is on John 4:4 and Jesus willingness to go to Samaria with all risk to his reputation that might involve as he travels almost to the door of a competing temple and starts the mission that would go to the nations, through a woman. Discover how this impacts our unde…
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A Journey With God - Series Introduction
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For the next 7 weeks we will look at the theme of Journeys in scripture. What did they mean then and what do they mean now for us as followers of Jesus. In this introduction Caroline Kimber sets the scene. In Ecclesiastical imagery and symbol, the ship is the picture of the pilgrim church on earth. The best ship example would be the Irish coracle, …
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Become - the patient path to spiritual growth
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In this first gathering of 2021 we look at what we might become in this new year. Dave Roberts introduces us to the different uses of the word become in scripture and explores maturity, community and being a disciple. He finishes with the promise that those who are becoming disciples will bring forth new treasures as well as old. What treasure can …
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Deep Rooted in Christ - Week One - Caroline
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jesus@thetable - Caroline on the passover meal during the week before the crucifixion
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The Parable of the Great Banquet - jesus@thetable 2
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jesus@thetable - Signs, Symbols and the Presence of God
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Loving Others - The Expression of Relational Faith
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Ruth Kenward shares on foundations for relational faith. She looks to the example of Jesus and the nature of his compassion. She then applies that to our everyday lives.
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In another of our teachings on our foundational values Caroline shares about how we approach the Bible, the written down version of the story of Mankind and God. This sermon is key to understanding how we seek to be transformed in the pattern of our thinking.
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The Hospitality of God - Sharon Roberts
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At the core of our faith is the idea that we follow a God of welcome, generosity and hospitality. It is a core value for us at Mosaic. Sharon shares some of the biblical framework that undergirds our commitment to this truth.
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Not just the name of our venue but the defining trait that we understand to be at the heart of the Character of God, shown to us in Jesus and enabled in us by the Holy Spirit. Ruth takes us on a journey of understanding
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As Mosaic starts to meet in a new venue Dave Roberts reflects on what it means to dwell with God in the places where we find and create community, how we dwell in God and how we dwell on God. These are key values as we seek to understand what it means to experience the presence of God
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Carline Kimber - Stretching Your Thinking
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You always get a fresh perspective with Caroline. This one is no exception
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Dave Roberts - What the Resurrection Means
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It means so many things. It confirms Jesus as the Son of God. It represents the start of the defeat of the power of sin and death and hell. Explore more with Dave Roberts
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The Passover Story - Making Sense of Holy Week
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Caroline Kimber helps us understand the events and background to some of what happened in the final weeks of Jesus human existence.
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Redemption and The Cross - Dave Roberts
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This sermon is part of a series on the Cross in the run up to Easter. Dave explores ancient concepts of redemption, applies them to the accounts of the Cross and applies them to our lives today.
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