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Services at All Souls are at 10am and occasional 6pm (see website for details). Our services bring together children and adults of all ages for a relaxed and informal time, characterised by a friendly welcome, contemporary music, lively children’s groups, opportunity for personal prayer and a relevant bible-based talk. You don’t have to fit a particular mold to come along – whether you’re coming with children or on your own, as someone living locally or visiting the area, looking to join or ...
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Joe talks about eyes as the receivers and transmitters of light. We are constantly looked upon by God even if - like Garfield (according to the movie) - you aren't aware of your father's presence. Knowing you are cared for you see the world - counter-culturally - as a place of abundance rather than one of scarcity and share accordingly. Learn to lo…
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Joe confronts us with Jesus's teaching on money - what does how we invest tell about who we are and what we believe? Heaven is here and now and everytime we spend we vote for the kind of world we want to live in. So what does our spend profile say about who we are? Take a look at your bank statement to sense how anchored to the future (or rooted in…
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Ritesh takes a look at fasting - starting with his own journey. Being a food lover, he was initially reluctant but, with some family nudging, he joined in too. Ritesh reflects on the sincerity and humility Jesus is looking for through this discipline. The health benefits of fasting have received considerable interest but it is primarily about creat…
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Acts 2:1-13By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Matthew 6:9-15. Mike takes a look at what Jesus had to say about our prayer lives.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Matthew 6:1-4By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Joe looks at Matthew 5:43-48 and tries to uncover what it truly means to us today to love our enemies.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Maf starts with a parallel - 007 expected to protect the British way of life (but acting contrary to it) and the Jewish Messiah - expected to arrive as an all-conquering military hero but manifested in a carpenter's son who preached peace and forgiveness. Maf looks at 3 familiar examples of how Jesus encouraged us to be freed from bitterness and re…
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Joe encouragingly points us to the most sense-making decades of our lives - our 70s, our 80s and our 60s - which most of us have to look forward to :-). He then goes on to talk about truth - a timely topic in our swirl of post-truth, deep fakes, filters and curated content. Do as you would be done by; do what you say you will; be truthful (no spin)…
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Joe teases apart a thorny topic; Jesus's teaching on human failures ranging from lust and adultery to divorce. How are we to deal with our impulses? "You can not stop the birds from flying overhead but you can stop them from nesting in your hair", Joe reflects, recalling the wisdom of Martin Luther. Grace, repentence and a God-given change of heart…
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[Matthew]: Beyond behaviour - dealing with anger
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Joe joins up recent sermons to show how Jesus' stretching expectations - e.g. righteousness beyond that of the pharisees - can (only) be fulfilled through a change of heart. Personal affront (holding a grudge) may result in expressions of anger which reflects the state of one's heart. What starts with a thwarted will can lead to personal insult, se…
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Bishop Emma reflects on her favourite passage. She takes apart the word Jesus used for "blessed" (separating it from the conditional "you will be blessed if...") and goes through each of the "Good on you when..." statements that comprise "the beatitudes". Full dependence is what we need; to recognise our reliance on God, generate genuine gratitude …
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Ritesh continues our series showing how Jesus fulfilled the law. Jesus showed how to live a righteous life from the heart. Ritesh takes us back to God's choice of David - a man after his own heart. We then go back to Jeremiah and Ezekiel and God's promise to transform us from inside to out. Don't pretend - confess - yield and be changed. This is wh…
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Having looked at the four different perspectives of the four gospel writers Jon zooms in on salt to start today's session. Salt's role then was primarily as a preservative - to slow deterioration and decay. We are called to preserve what is good and wholesome. With a vivid recollection from the darkness of the nightime desert Jon goes on to show ho…
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[Matthew]: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near
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Joe picks up the story in Matthew where Jesus leaves the wilderness and starts teaching. What does Jesus call us to do in 2024? Are we to talk about his ethics, his love for the lost, his exhortation to love your neighbour? Well, repentance is the foundation, in recognition of the king and his kingdom. Having allowed humans the freedom to choose Go…
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[Matthew]: Soft-hearted in a hard-hearted world
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Mike takes us through a familiar passage (when Jesus was led to a solitary place) and asks "What is the wilderness?", "What is temptation?" and "So what?". He compares Jesus's experience to that of the people of Israel being led from the abundance of fertile Egypt and out into the desert. Mike bounces us through parallels - from the Post Office to …
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Joe starts us off with context - recognising the bible was built by many authors and whose architect is God. He then invites us to consider Matthew through 3 focal lenses - our visionary cornerstones - being with Jesus, learning to be like him and doing as he did. With that backdrop he then takes us through how John prepared the way for the coming …
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Joe takes on a challenging passage to push through January. Not a common Nativity story but it is there in the book - child murder, sudden departure, being refugees. Becoming like Jesus - a whole and integrated life - this may not play out as we expect... Joe draws upon the teachings of wise Christian leaders as well as a personal encounter with a …
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All Souls welcomes Richard back to finish off our vision series. Remembering camping excursions and the "collecting the kit" stage he reflects on stuff - for a church that is people buildings and money - and encourages us each to ask not "What do we do with what we've got?" but "Why has God given this to us?". Using a passage from 1 Chronicles he h…
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On safeguarding Sunday Joe, Katherine and Eva take us through why as well as how we are to honour all members of the church body. We all go through times when we are particularly vulnerable due to our own unique circumstances. As a church we need to continually be watchful; looking out for one another and looking after one another. We need to be mi…
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Joe starts this week by asking how we'd advise our younger selves - what would you tell younger you? Asaph, in Psalm 78, talks about the responsibility to share testimony from generation to generation - "teach them to know God and follow his ways". God searches you, knows you and loves you; we need to instill this sense of connection and appreciati…
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Maf talks about home improvements. It can seem like the work never stops - as soon as one job is done another begins... In the church, given that Jesus is the builder and we need to keep growing, individually and collectively, this is a good thing(!). Maf reflects on how we respond to change - resisting it, tolerating it or embracing it. He paralle…
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Joe talks about what it is to be hands and feet. He asks us to think about a familiar story - the tale of the good samaritan - differently. Identify first with the one cared for rather than those who encountered him. We love because Jesus first loved us. Joe then familiarises us with opportunities in our own neighbourhood - including Ivybridge - to…
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On this baptism day Maf eases us into the sermon with 3 short readings and Joe acquaints us with the wider church's London 2030 vision - confident disciples forming compassionate communities leading to creative growth. Being baptised into God's expansive family we learn to be confident of God's rescue and confident sharing the good news.…
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Parallel bible passages from the old and new testaments launch us into this sermon on being sent. Joe shares family stories of superhero appeal - being part of something bigger - and his own honest response to the prospect of leading mission. We live in a society that seeks self satisfaction but risk missing out on the joy of mission. We are called…
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Concluding this short September series Joe starts with the tale of a dampened Bible - open on Isaiah 35. What does it mean to do what Jesus did (then and now)? Lots of topics - preach the gospel, teach the way, heal the sick, cast out demons, eat and drink with those far from God, pray, prophesy, stand against corruption, etc. - and there are lots …
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Joe dips again into Isaiah 35 to refocus us on Jesus. Our formation depends on our focus and we are constantly subject to temptation and distraction. If we are to be like Jesus we need to practice long obedience. There is a highway. It is for the redeemed (not to redemption). Find it. Focus. Follow. Be like Jesus to find freedom, community and mean…
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Joe delves into Isaiah 35: 1-4 to talk about flourishing in hard places. He takes apart a poem that foreshadows Jesus's arrival. It's real setting was of a land that was essentially fruitful, if only water were available. Are you feeling parched? Do you see only desert? Jesus is our living water - jump in, stay in and see life differently!…
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This week, Joe looks at John 3:1-13 to see what we can learn from the encounter between Nicodemus and Jesus.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Joe continues our summer series by examining Mary's encounter with Jesus from John 12:1-8By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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This week, Maf looks at what we can learn from Jesus' encounter with a diminutive tree-climbing chap...By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Jon continues our series entitled 'Encounters with Jesus', this week looking at the centurion from Luke 7:1-10, and discovering what we can learn from this encounter about faith.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Joe begins a new series for the summer, entitled 'Encounters with Jesus', starting with one of Peter's famous encounters.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Ritesh Patelia concludes our series from the book of James by looking at what it truly means to have Patience & Trust.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Mike English continues our series on 'Living like Jesus', by looking at what James 4:11-17 has to say about having Jesus on the throne of our lives.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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Joe continues our series from the book of James, looking at what it means to have true wisdom.By All Souls Church in St Margarets near Twickenham
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[Giving like Jesus]: tight-fisted or open-handed
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Maf looks at the spirit with which we give. He takes us back to his first wage and the choices he had. He goes further back to the widow with her two coins and the choices she made. He also looks's at the practice of tithing (giving 10%) and concludes it is not how much we give but how we giive that matters. God loves a cheerful giver - let him mak…
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Joe takes us forward in our mini-series looking at giving - how to adopt a mindset of abundance amidst a society beset with anxiety and fearful of scarcity (e.g. toilet rolls). He reflects on recent realities of snapped flower heads (his locally) and drowned animals (in Ukraine) and what Jesus meant by linking together the "build bigger barns" and …
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[Giving like Jesus]: godliness with contentment
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Joe intros a mini-series on generosity. Creation abounds with God's generosity but, lacking trust, we have a tendency to see scarcity and selfishly accumulate. Joe invites us to reframe our thinking and shows how Jesus put the poor at the centre of his ministry. Happiness and generosity are interlinked so think afresh on opportunities you have to g…
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Jon uses Winston Churchill's and Spiderman's phrase "with great power comes great responsibility" to ease us into today's passage. Words can uplift or wound. He takes apart several of James's parallels recognising how "spreading like wildfire" is yet more relevant in today's society given the proliferation of social media - "be quick to listen and …
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[Living like Jesus]: mercy triumphs over judgement
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Joe begins today's session by asking those physically present to ask their neighbours for opinions - their favourite food, music, day of the week and... church members(!). James focused on favouritism so Joe does too - all lives matter and are to be framed not by status but by love. Whilst discrimintation may have been more evident in James's time …
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"Quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"; Joe invites us to reflect on our abilities to live out this phrase. "How long is your nose?" He also asks; the hot-nosed are short-tempered per the idiom of the time. James's teachings are as relevant to today's audience as to his listeners then. Tune in and work out how they apply to you.…
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[Living like Jesus]: seeing through suffering
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Joe starts a new sermon series for becoming like Jesus. He uses the launch of SpaceX's biggest rocket to date - ts rapid, unscheduled disassembly and the whoops and hollers this triggered - as a way to see success in apparent failure; pure joy from difficult circumstances. Maturity, completeness, wholeness - this is what suffering builds and we can…
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Joe takes us through Jesus's 4 trials: chief priests, Pilate, Herod, the crowd. The chief priests question his identify... and pass Jesus on - the saviour not fitting their expectations. Pilate is pressured by others and their expectations - seeing opportunity to involve another, he passes Jesus on. Herod's curiosity is piqued and he probes Jesus l…
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[On the road to the cross]: when darkness reigns
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Hannah zooms in on Jesus's vulnerability and fragility in the garden of Gethsemane - being honest about his fear and resolute in his commitment to honour God's will. She contrasts Jesus attitude with the shortcomings of the disciples - falling asleep when called to pray, fighting when that's not needed and denying Jesus when challenged. Hannah cite…
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[On the road to the cross]: blessed is the king
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Joe starts our stretched-out look at holy week - from palm sunday to easter sunday. Though greeted with joy on palm sunday Jesus wept over Jerusalem knowing what was to come. From tears and cheers he turned to taking out his anger, not on the Romans, but upon those in the temple. Joe looks at how our modern connections with the wider world - e.g. d…
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Joe looks at Genesis 3 and Matthew 4 - two parallel stories of temptation; to choose to redefine good and evil/right and wrong or to trust God and his boundaries. Eve and Adam go one way, Jesus the other. Rather than listening to one's own thoughts Jesus resists temptation with words from scripture - God's revealed truth - respecting its authority.…
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Debs encourages us to practice the holy habit of sabbath keeping - recognising that God us in charge and we are to orientate our lives around him and rest, reflect and delight in him on the seventh day. She chats through practical examples of how to make this happen - including restraining our phone use - finding time to be thankful for we are, who…
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Dan dips into a tale of hospitality and inclusivity. Feet washing was an everyday and intimate service to welcome guests. Jesus welcomed the service of a woman who others thought it improper to associate with. He recognised her dignity and value and used Simon Peter's "gotcha" challenge to open his eyes to the need to treat outsiders as equals. Dan…
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[Spiritual Practices]: living in community
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Joe highlights that loneliness is called out right at the start of the bible, Genesis 2, as "not good". He goes on to look at how Jesus sowed community into the fabric of his day; a necessary and messy business. "Come follow me, along with these others" - an invitation to share. Community is not just connectedness nor chemistry but rather vulnerabi…
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