Claim OwnershipSUNDAY SERVICE // Two Become One // Pastor Andy Jackson
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It’s all about making Jesus known. We are a bible believing, Jesus worshipping church. The Coach House Church is a contemporary, spirit filled church. We are a church that loves and accepts everyone, no matter what your background or experience. If you are exploring faith or looking for a place to call home, come and join us on Sunday. Our family here are from different backgrounds and nations, coming together as one to make us who we are.
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Have you ever been really hungry? It happens to most people at some point in their lives but, thankfully, most of us never experience being hungry for too long. But hunger was an ever-present fact of life in Jesus’ day
Jesus’ words apply to both the present and future in Matthew 5:5. We are blessed now as people who are meek, but one day we will “inherit the earth”.
Jesus turns our ideas of happiness upside down. Our culture says blessing is comfort, control, and success. Jesus says blessing is found in honesty, humility, and dependence on God. Mourning is not a failure of faith. It is often where faith becomes most real. The call to mourn is a call to hope — not shallow optimism, but deep trust in God’s presence now and God’s restoration in the future.
When we admit we don’t have the tools — we discover that God always has. And that heart — a heart that recognises its need of rescue — is blessed indeed.
This week we begin our journey through the Beatitudes. They form part of a much larger teaching moment where Jesus addresses his disciples, while large crowds gather close enough to listen in. Such was the authority and depth of his teaching that we’re told the crowds were amazed.
We often say that Jesus instigates an upside-down kingdom, but if He is correcting the errors of the cultures and worldviews of the day (and if that continues today), then they are not upside-down values at all …. they are the right way, and it is us, that have been upside down for so long we do not know which way is up anymore!
This week—and even today—let’s choose to be still. To stop fighting. To stop filling every space with noise. To create room for the whisper. You might be surprised at how quickly God meets you there. How clearly He speaks when we give Him space.How much peace comes when we know—not guess, know—that we’ve heard His voice. Because when God speaks, and we listen… faith grows, trust deepens, and our lives are shaped by His love.
God made us a community on purpose. We are together for a reason. So if there is something you are praying for and you want to make a commitment to pray for it - tell someone. Ask someone to make you accountable to that. Don’t solely rely on them because they are likely to forget at some point too, but use them as a little reminder.
So when you bow your head this week, remember the God who still hears, who still acts, and who still delights to move through the prayers of His people. Because prayer changes things. Because prayer changes us.
This is how to pray, and if we get this right we will, as it says in Hebrews 4:16 “be able tocome boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we willfind grace to help us when we need it most”
Prayer isn’t something we have to do It’s what we were made to do.We may not see Him face to face yet, but one day we will. On that day, temptation will be gone, the curse will be broken, and communication will be fully restored.Until then, we pray—not out of duty, but out of love. Because prayer isn’t just about requests—it’s about relationship.
Sometimes, what’s clogging your connection to God isn’t that you’re not serving enough, it’s that you haven’t stopped long enough to let Him clean you. Maybe it’s time to pause the motion and open the compartment. Let God clean out the things that have built up , the criticism, the comparison, the resentment, the hurt.
In this podcast, I will be talking about the storms in our lives, the difficult patches, the rough stuff. Why do these things happen, why should we still worship and how do we practically do that?
The word “surrender” makes most of us uneasy. Even hearing it can trigger an instinctive resistance. In our culture, surrender is rarely spoken of positively. It is wrapped in the language of weakness, failure, and loss.
We started out by looking at the greatest commandment, which is to love God. We also saw that we love God, because he first loved us. God’s love for us gives us the strength to let go of sin, come to him when we have failed, and to want to get to know him more and more. So let’s come to God and experience it.
Last week we were shown the reality that we were created to worship - the fundamental and foundational posture, as created beings to worship our creator. Our worship is our obedience, our acknowledgement, that God is our sovereign ruler, King and authority. Why is this important?
A compass points north because that’s how it’s made. Your soul points God-ward because that’s how you’re made. But magnets near a compass can throw it off. So remove the magnets—habits, inputs, compromises—that distort your reading. Bring the needle back to true north.
When you hear the word surrender, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of waving a white flag, admitting defeat, or giving up control. For most of us, surrender doesn’t sound appealing. We’ve worked hard to build careers, relationships, families, and identities. We want to be in charge of our lives. We’re told, “Take control of your destiny. Be the author of your story. Hustle harder, dream bigger.”
True understanding of our standing before God, reveals that we can gain favour and merit even in our failures, because of who God is. Even in our disobedience, a correct heart condition which is brought back to God through confession and repentance can still encounter blessing. If only we could completely submit to God and his commands, acknowledging His care and provision for our obedience without resorting to raising our Buts!
God did not set every Israelite at Jericho his own individual challenge which was divorced from the group as a whole. They acted as one people, one united group to act in a particular way. Some within that group might have been deeply suspicious of whether it was going to work. Others might have been extremely confident. But, in the end, they acted together to exercise faith in God’s plans for them ALL.
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