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Challenge Christmas
Teaching series: Christmas 2009
The nation (well some!) have come to love the Top Gear challenges. You may have your favourite. Vietnam? Sailing to France in a car? Sending a rocket-propelled mini down a ski slope? They make great entertainment partly because they are daft, but also because they are demanding, even dangerous. Maybe you prefer the “star in a reasonably priced car” challenge, or once in a while you just try it yourself on the way home from work! There is something about a challenge that entices us. (If you have never watched Top Gear think Challenge Anneka with more danger and less purpose!)Believe it!
Teaching Series Autumn 2009
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Often in our teaching series’ we find ourselves looking at a particular book or part of the Bible. This series is different. Beginning in Genesis and ending in Revelation we are going to explore the big truths about God that the Bible presents. In exploring what they are, and seeing how they all fit together, we can shake off any illusions, misunderstandings and errors concerning the way we have thought about God, our lives and his world. Let’s come to this series with this certainty: the better I understand God, and the better I understand the life he has given and the world he has made, the better I will be the person he has called me to be.Will Revival Come?
Teaching Series Summer 2009
Where I grew up in South Wales there are huge churches on almost every street corner amongst the mining villages that once were. These churches were built to accommodate the thousands of men and women whose lives were transformed by God’s power during the Welsh Revival. The plethora of huge buildings that dominate the landscape is still a visible reminder of the way God had moved in such power. Much of my early preaching was done in these churches now occupied, in the main, by a handful of remaining members. Elderly men and women would tell me, with brightness in their eyes, the stories of these churches that were full, literally bursting at the seams, the transformed lives, the hundreds of baptisms, the miracles, the crescendo of praise that was all part of their story. Now many of these churches stand empty or have been sold as craft shops, mosques or carpet warehouses.
That’s the situation that Malachi, the Old Testament prophet, finds himself in. There had been a great and mighty move of God but now almost all that was left was a distant memory. Could God do it again? Would God do it again? Or were those glory days over? Malachi’s answer was “Yes, God could do it again. Yes, God would do it again but they would need to get ready…”
Malachi is a book for everyone who wants to be ready for God to move again in mighty power: a power that would shake the church, rescue the lost and transform the world.
Please join us Sunday by Sunday at 10.45am. We would love to welcome you.
Sunday 28th June
Linda pepper preaching
Mary Sagar preaching
One Month to Live
Teaching Series - spring 2009
High Impact Church
Main Teaching Theme - New Year 2009
It’s an amazing story that begins with a group of bewildered followers who started to pray. Within ten days, thousands, literally thousands, are coming to faith – over a hundred each day. A whole city is stirred, emergency councils are called and incredible power is seen. Above all, individual lives are changed and the new radical community is recognised as something truly “awesome” by everyone. In the face of intense opposition and cruel persecution churches continued to be planted, and this new visible kingdom continued to expand crossing every border of culture and race.
Please join us week by week to be inspired, challenged and provoked as we explore the first few chapters of the book of Acts together. Could Burlington cause a stir? Could we live as radically at the early church did? Could we see people coming to faith in great numbers? Do we believe that God can do in us what He did with those first disciples? Could we too be a High Impact Church?
Reading: Acts 1: 1-14
Service includes communion
Reading Acts 2:1-21
Service includes believers' baptism
Reading Acts 2:42-47
Andrew Gosden our Music Director is preaching
Reading: Acts 2:22-36
Service followed by our fellowship New Year meal
Reading: Acts 3:1-10
Service includes communion
Reading: Acts 4:8-31
Christmas Presence
Teaching Series - Christmas 2008
EVERY SUNDAY 10.45am (unless stated)
Heaven's Ten
Main Teaching Theme - Autumn 2008
Does an ancient code have anything to say to a high-tech society?
An ancient Jewish blessing, expresses the longing in most of us: “live long & prosper!” It was a longing for the prosperity of a life lived with purpose, a life that was rich in meaning where we were at one with ourselves, our neighbours, our world and our God. It was the longing for a life well lived. Above all the strivings of each day it is this life that we long for too. But how do we get it?
If you have ever played the computer game “The Sims” you will know the challenge of creating an environment where everybody can flourish. Thirty centuries ago, God gave us the answer. In ten simple phrases, totalling little more than three hundred words in English, God gave us the secret of “living well.” (Deut 5:29)
Whilst so much has changed since then, the secret to living hasn’t. Join us week by week to discover that this ancient code has as much as ever to say to our longings for life and prosperity.
EVERY SUNDAY 10.45am His authorised biographies tell a very different story. They speak of Jesus as passionate, confrontational, exclusive, even extreme. What is the truth of this radical Galilean prophet who claimed to be God? Join us week by week on a Sunday (10.45am), and in your Small Group, to discover the man who changed the world forever. Sunday 6th April Sunday 13th April Sunday 20th April Sunday 27th April Sunday 4th May Sunday 11th May Sunday 18th May Sunday 25th May Sunday 1st June Sunday 8th June Sunday 15th June Sunday 22nd June Sunday 29th June Sunday 6th July Sunday 13th July Sunday 20th July Sunday 27th July Our Senior Minister writes .... In 40 Days of Purpose we answered the question: What on earth am I here for? For 40 Days, beginning on Sunday February 10th 2008: In order to benefit from 40 Days of Community you must be part of a small group. If you are not part of a small group, please contact our associate minister, Heather Marsden and she will be glad to link you up. We will kick things off with an evening together, including a hot meal, on Tuesday 5th February, 7.15 pm. Please book your place through your Small Group Leader. Each Sunday Celebration will begin at 10.45am. For many the real story of their lives is marked by disappointment, fear and a general confusion about what life is really all about. In contrast, God’s story is one of love for this hurting, broken world, a story of his coming to rescue us, to bring us hope for now and the future. How then do we help people discover God’s story? The answer: our story. Our story connects with their story because we know what it is like to be disappointed, confused and fearful. But our story also connects with God’s story because of what we have discovered in him. Therefore our story helps connect their story with God’s story. Please join us week by week and discover the buzz of connecting. All services start at 10.45am. Sunday 13th January Sunday 20th January Sunday 27th January Sunday 3rd February John 8:32 - 36 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” …. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Yet so often in our Christian lives we can feel anything but free, and these truths can so easily become mere words devoid of any connection to our everyday lives. What is it like to be free in Christ, how can I get there and how can I stay there? This is a series for all who long to rid themselves of every tie and chain that holds them back from becoming all God wants them to be. It’s for all who long to be free to make a difference in God’s world. We will be exploring this freedom week by week on Sunday mornings and in our Small Groups. The Sunday preacher unless otherwise stated will be our Senior Minister, Revd Simon Harris. Please do join us. Missed a week? Catch up at our podcasting site here Sunday 2nd September Sunday 9th September Sunday 16th September Sunday 23rd September Sunday 30th September Sunday 7th October Sunday 14th October Sunday 21st October Sunday 28th October Sunday 4th November (Saturday 10th November – a special day away of worship, prayer & reflection: Steps to Freedom in Christ) Sunday 11th November (Remembrance Sunday) Sunday 18th November Sunday 25th November (IN THE CHURCH HALLS) Sunday 2nd December All Services will begin at 10.45am. We will also be following this series in our small groups. Over these Advent Sundays we want to push aside tradition and let the truth shine as brightly as that Bethlehem star. This truth, which is far more engaging than any tradition, is life-changing and, literally, world transforming. Have you cracked it? Have you discovered the truth from the tradition? If you have, it will be “good news of great joy!” (Luke 2:11) (All Services start at 10.45 unless indicated otherwise) Sunday 3rd December Sunday 10th December Sunday 17th December Christmas Day Sunday 31st December
Preacher: Simon Harris, Senior Minister (unless otherwise stated). Just Jesus
Main Teaching Theme - April - July 2008
Whilst God’s goal for our lives is that we become like Jesus (Romans 8:29), are we in danger of making Jesus become more like us? Have we created Jesus in our image: safe, middle-of-the-road, comfortable?
Preacher: Simon Harris, Senior Minister (unless otherwise stated).
Matthew 16:13-26 surprise
Luke 5:17-32 divine
Matthew 14: 1-25 human
Matthew 13:31-52 teacher
Preacher – Claire Earl, Youth Minister
John 2:1-11 healer
Preacher – Heather Marsden, Associate Minister
Preacher – Christine Myers
(Church Weekend)
Luke 7:36-50 relational
Matthew 5:17-48 extreme
Preacher – Heather Marsden, Associate Minister
John 8:1-11 graceful
Matthew 23:1-39 confrontational
Matthew 19:1-15 defender
John 11:17-44 emotional
Luke 4:14-30 wholeness
Preacher – Simon Barrington, Executive Director Samaritans Purse
Luke 23:26-49 dying
visit from Providence Baptist Church, Romania
Acts 1:1-11 ascended
Preacher – Heather Marsden, Associate Minister
Matthew 24:36-51 coming40 Days of Community
Main Teaching Theme - Spring 2008
In 2006 we did 40 Days of Purpose. Those forty days were the start of the most fruitful period of blessing in our church since I had started ministry at Burlington 11 years previously. Following then, the momentum has not stopped and the number of commitments to Christ, baptisms, healings and transformed lives has continued to grow. We are amazed by God’s work in our lives, and in our church, and now as we celebrate the opening of our new Church Centre (22-23rd February 2008) it seems the ideal time to share in 40 Days of Community.
In 40 Days of Community we will answer the question: What on earth are WE here for?
• Every person will be invited to follow a daily devotion
• Every group will meet weekly to share around the key theme for that week
• and the Entire congregation will celebrate each Sunday
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There will be a full programme for children & young people each Sunday
Missed a service listen here
• We’re compelled to Love God’s Family
Week beginning Sunday 17th February
• We’re commissioned to Reach Out Together
Week beginning Sunday 24th February
• We’re chosen to Fellowship Together
• We’re connected to Grow Together
Week beginning Sunday 9th March
• We’re called to Serve Together
Week beginning Sunday 16th March
• We’re created to Worship Together
Final Celebration Sunday (Easter Day) Sunday 23rd March your story, my story, his story
Main Teaching Theme - New Year 2008
Everyone has a story.
The speaker will be our Senior Minister, Simon Harris
Missed a service? Listen here
Sunday 6th January
Introduction: A story-telling people
This service includes communion
Know God’s story
Guest Preacher: Revd David Thompson
Hear their story
Share my story
This services includes communionChRISKmas
Christmas Teaching Series - December 2007
At the heart of Christmas lies a risk. It’s the incredible risk that God took in leaving heaven to come to earth. But more, it was His great risk that caused those caught up in the story to take risks of their own in order to get involved in what God was doing. It’s that same risk – The Christmas risk – that we too are called to make. To leave the comfort of our “heaven” and get involved with what God’s doing in the world today. Will you join us week by week as we learn to take the risk?FREEDOM IN CHRIST
Main teaching theme - Autumn 2007
Jesus makes some great promises about freedom:
Where did I come from?
Includes communion and commissioning of new ministries at BBC
Who Am I?
Includes a baptismal service
Choosing to believe the Truth
Guest Preacher: Mike Simmonds (viz a viz)
Guest Preacher: John Smith,
The World’s view of truth
Our Daily Choice
Demolishing Strongholds
With Revd Claire Earl
The Battle for our Minds
Handling Emotions Well
Service includes communion
Walking in Freedom Every Day
Includes an Act of Remembrance
Relating to Others
Where are you heading?
With Heather Marsden
Staying On the Right Path
This series is based on The Freedom in Christ Discipleship Course. For supporting notes, please purchase a copy of The Freedom in Christ Discipleship Course Participant’s Workbook. Ref: FC124 http://www.ficm.org.uk/acatalog/Main_Menu_FIC_Discipleship_Course_5.html Your Small Group Leader will be able to help you with this.The Shepherd's Detox
Sunday Mornings - Summer 2007
People pay a fortune to spend a few days away at an exclusive spa resort where a body detox is an essential part of the treatment offered.
Worry Psalm 23:1
Guest Preacher
Busyness Psalm 23:2
Including baptism and communion
Damaged Emotions Psalm 23:3a
Guest Preacher: Revd John Casselton
Church Weekend
Indecision Psalm 23:3b
Guest Preacher: Nola Leach (CARE)
Difficult Times Psalm 23:4
Broken Relationships Psalm 23:5
Including communion
Fear of the Future Psalm 23:6Jesus, Last Meal, Final Words
Sunday Mornings - Lent 2007
Salvation John 13
Assurance John 14:1-14
Holy Spirit John 14:12-31
Fruitfulness John 15
Endurance John 15:18 – 16:16
Joy John 16:17-33
The 3 R’s of real life John 17Steps to what God wants
Sunday Morning Sermon Series January & February 2007
"We believe that a great commitment to the Great Commission
Sunday January 14th Cracking Christmas
Advent & Christmas Preaching Series 2006
The release of The Da Vinci Code as a film this year reminded us that truth can so easily get muddled with tradition. Was Jesus born in a stable? Did Mary ride on a donkey? Were there three Wise Men? Did they travel on camels? Was Bethlehem a quiet peaceful place? Was Jesus born in December? The answer to all these questions is either “no” or, at best, “we don’t know!”
The challenge of the shepherds – Luke 2:8-20
This service will include two baptisms and communion
The sign of the manger – Luke 2:12
The beginning of the end – Matthew 2:13-23
10.45am A Christmas family musical: While Shepherds’ Watched
10am Christmas all-age worship
What are you giving? – Matthew 2:11
All-age New Year’s Eve worship
A word to all: “Don’t be afraid!” - Matthew 1:20, Luke 1:13,30; 2:10Joshua - into God's promise
Sunday Morning Sermon Series - Autumn 2006
The people of God - Joshua 1
A new woman - Joshua 2
This will be a baptismal service, with communion
Trouble ahead - Joshua 3
This service will be especially guest-friendly
Guest Preacher: Revd Sheila Martin, Regional Minister, EBA
(Youth Weekend at Vauxhall Farm)
Memories - Joshua 4 & 5
With communion (baptism planned)
Bringing down strongholds - Joshua 6
Saved! - Joshua 9
This service will be especially guest-friendly
Destroyed from within - Joshua 7
Keeping the promise - Joshua 23
With communion (planned baptism)
The ultimate choice - Joshua 24
With an Act of Remembrance
Joshua – used by God Numbers 27:12-23
This service will be especially guest-friendly
Guest Preacher Chris HillThe Truth About...
Sunday Morning Sermon Series - Summer 2006
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