What is the church actually for? Are we here to root out evil, or have we got it upside down? On Vision Sunday, Tim Horman opens Ephesians 3 to explore why God's people exist: to show the world who Jesus is through the way we stick together and love one another.

Written from a prison cell, Paul's words still overflow with hope. If God really is present among his people, then anything is possible, so are we praying big enough prayers? This message launches Reimagine, a season at One Church to pray, dream and ask what God wants to do through us in the years ahead.

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What do you do when you hit the bottom, when the plan has failed and no one is coming to save you? In Acts 12, the early church faces exactly that: James has been executed, Peter is in prison awaiting the same fate, and the most powerful man in the land is against them.

Darren Rowse explores how the church responded, not with thoughts and prayers, but with stretched-out, straining prayer, even when they weren't sure an answer would come. It's a story of doubt, grief and a God who answers anyway, sometimes while the answer is knocking at the door. Part of our Acts series at One Church.

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Linda Bailey opens with that story and takes us into Acts 11, where revival breaks out not in Jerusalem, the religious capital, but in Antioch, a city so notorious the Roman Empire used it as the benchmark for immorality.

Some unnamed believers there did something nobody asked them to do. They told Greeks about Jesus in words the Greeks already understood. The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed. Linda challenges us to think about the cold leads in our own lives, the people who aren't asking about God but are looking for purpose, and to do the two things the Antioch church was known for: to speak, and to give. Part of our series in the book of Acts.

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What if the exile never really ended? Daniel's people went home from Babylon, but Daniel 12 suggests a different kind of exile was only just beginning, and that we are still living in it.

In the final message of our Resisting Babylon series, Tim Horman takes us to the last chapter of Daniel and asks what it means to be among "those who are wise" while living in the middle of Babylon. Babylon, he argues, is not a place but a power. It rarely comes at you directly. It comes through the culture: social pressure first, then legal and political pressure, and eventually something far worse. Daniel saw it coming and stayed awake.

The warning is that the church is asleep. The hope is that Christ will return, the dead will be raised, and everything will be made new. Between now and then, we are called to keep our eyes open, refuse to call any person our enemy, and decide, like Daniel, that Babylon will not come to live in us.

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What name are you answering to? Not the one on your birth certificate, the other one. The name a teacher used once in front of the class, or a partner reached for in an argument, or a hard season quietly stamped on you.

In Daniel 10, an exhausted old man lies face down by a river. He is seventy years into exile; he has been praying three times a day for something he now knows he will not live to see, and after three weeks of grief and fasting, heaven has said nothing. When the answer finally comes, it does not come as an explanation. It comes as a hand on his shoulder and a name.

Darren Rowse preaches on grief, stalled prayer, a war going on somewhere we cannot see, and the God who names us before he explains anything. Part of our Resisting Babylon series at One Church.

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If Jesus really is Lord, why does evil still seem to run the world? In Daniel 7, the strange and terrifying vision at the very heart of the book, Tim Horman shows us what God sees behind the beastly empires of history: a heavenly courtroom where justice will be done, and one like a son of man receiving a kingdom that will never end.

This is the chapter Jesus quoted at his trial, the source of his favourite title for himself, and one of the most important chapters in the Old Testament for understanding what it means for him to be our Messiah. The beasts look invincible from the ground, but not from the perspective of heaven. Our task as followers of Jesus living in Babylon is to make sure Babylon doesn't come to live in us. Part of our Resisting Babylon series in the book of Daniel.

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How can you tell someone is a Christian? Would anyone around you even be able to?

Linda Bailey preaches from Daniel 6, and the surprising thing she finds there is not the lions. It is the fact that every single person in the Babylonian government already knew exactly what Daniel believed and which law he would never break. His faith was the most obvious thing about him, and it stayed obvious even when it nearly cost him his life.

Along the way Linda makes a case that unsettles most of us: there is a level of arrogance in the Christian claim, and we should not be embarrassed by it, because the confidence never rests in us. It rests in Jesus. Part of our Resisting Babylon series at One Church.

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There is an army outside the walls, the city has hours left, and the king throws a party. Tim Horman preaches from Daniel 5, the chapter that gave us the phrase "the writing is on the wall".

Belshazzar knew exactly what had happened to his ancestor Nebuchadnezzar. He had read the testimony. And he still hauled out the sacred cups from the temple in Jerusalem to toast the gods of gold and stone. Daniel's indictment is not the sacrilege. It is five words: you have not humbled yourself.

This message goes somewhere unexpected. The same hand that wrote judgment on a wall in Babylon would write again, years later, in the dust in Jerusalem, defending a woman everyone else had condemned. Part of our series Resisting Babylon at One Church.

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The most powerful man in the world stood on the roof of his palace, looked out over the city he had built, and said one sentence that cost him everything. A year later he was in a field on his hands and knees, eating grass.

Darren Rowse explores Daniel 4 and the strange truth that God looks at what Nebuchadnezzar built and calls it beautiful. The problem was never his ambition or his success. It was the attribution. Pride, as Darren puts it, is amnesia about grace: claiming authorship of a life that has always been on loan.

Whether you feel like the flourishing tree or the stump in this story, the invitation is the same, and it is the only upward movement in the chapter that actually works. Lift your eyes. Part of our Resisting Babylon series at One Church.

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What would you do if everyone around you was bowing, and standing meant death? Linda Bailey takes us into Daniel 3 and the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, three men who refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's gold statue and met a fourth man in the flames.

Their answer to the king still challenges us today: our God is able to deliver us, but even if he does not, we will not bow. Is our worship of God the real thing, or just an insurance policy? What are the idols our culture is quietly asking us to bow to, on a Monday as much as a Sunday? Because of what Jesus has already done, enduring the ultimate furnace for us, we have already won. Part of our Daniel series at One Church.

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Empires rise and empires fall. Every kingdom that has ever claimed to rule the world has eventually crumbled, no matter how powerful it seemed at the time. So what actually lasts?

Tim Horman opens up Daniel 2 and the king's forgotten dream: a towering statue made of gold, silver, bronze and iron, smashed to pieces by a single stone that grows into a mountain filling the whole earth. It's a picture of every human empire, and of the one kingdom that will outlast them all.

If you've ever wondered whether the things you're building your life on will actually hold, this message is worth sitting with. Part of our series in Daniel.

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What if the story that seems to be over is actually just beginning? Tim Horman opens our new series through the book of Daniel, Resisting Babylon, looking at Daniel chapter 1 and the moment a teenager's whole world collapses, home destroyed, family scattered, identity stripped away and replaced. Yet even here, Tim shows how one small, quiet act of faithfulness can be the seed of a lifetime of courage. This is the first message in our Daniel series, Resisting Babylon: Faithfulness in an Age of Decadence and Death.

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Have you ever prayed for God to move in your life, and then said no when he actually did? In Acts 10, Peter does exactly that. Given a vision that challenges everything he thought faithfulness meant, his answer is "No, Lord." Alyssa McNight unpacks the story of Peter and Cornelius, two very different men whose prayers collide in a moment that changed Christian history, and asks what boundaries we've placed around God today.

Who is your Cornelius? And what is your "No, Lord"? This message is an invitation to abide in God until your response becomes, "Who am I to stand in your way?" Part of our Acts series at One Church.

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In Acts 10, two men in two different cities are both praying, and God is quietly dovetailing their stories together. Darren Rowse explores the meeting of Peter and Cornelius, a Roman outsider searching for God and a fisherman whose faith is about to be stretched wide open.

This is a story where the evangelist gets converted, the Holy Spirit interrupts the sermon, and the word "everyone" changes everything. Because we are not the missionaries, God is. Our part is simply to be available and to move when he nudges. Part of our series through the Book of Acts at One Church.

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How do you reach someone who is certain they're right? Saul of Tarsus wasn't searching for Jesus. He was hunting Jesus' followers, arrest letters in his bag, when grace ambushed him on the road to Damascus.

Darren Rowse explores Acts 9:1-22, the most famous conversion story of them all, and traces four movements of grace: grace sees you, grace finds you, grace transforms you, and grace sends you. If grace could reach the man who called himself the worst of sinners, no one is beyond its reach. Not you, and not the person you've written off. Part of our series in the book of Acts at One Church.

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Why would a good God let his brand new church be struck with persecution, prison and death before it had barely drawn breath? In this message Linda Bailey opens Acts 8:1-8, where the death of Stephen gives way to fierce persecution, and asks the question every one of us eventually faces: why does God allow suffering?

Linda contrasts the Western, Eastern and Christian ways of reading our pain, and lands on the difference that changes everything: we worship a God who is both sovereign and suffering. He has a plan we cannot always see, and he has gone to the cross himself, so that when we suffer he understands and comes alongside us. Remarkably, in just eight verses, persecution gives way to great joy in a whole city. Part of our Acts series at One Church.

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What if the place where you spend most of your waking hours, your job, is exactly where Jesus most wants to meet you?

In part two of his message on disciple-making, Tim Horman opens up Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28 and asks a question the church rarely talks about: how do we connect the faith we experience on a Sunday to the ordinary work we do Monday to Friday? Drawing on Dallas Willard, Tim challenges us to stop living two separate lives and to see our everyday work, our homes and our friendships as the primary places where we learn to live as Jesus would. The pressure is off, because the same Jesus who holds all authority promises to be with us always. Part of our Together Togather Mission Month at One Church.

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What if God's mission isn't reserved for a few extraordinary people, but is something every one of us is invited into right where we are? In this conversation for our OneCare Mission Month, our Missions Pastor Carly Cassidy welcomes Adam and Kate Honeybun home from Cambodia, where they serve with Pioneers at Hope International School in Phnom Penh.

Their journey began with what Adam calls a "silly prayer" and a string of open doors that moved their whole family across the world. But the real challenge of their story is closer to home: God uses ordinary skills and everyday jobs for his mission, and the question for all of us is simply, "who are you loving that is right next to you?" Whether you're called to Cambodia or to Blackburn, all of us are invited in.

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What can God do through a single faithful friendship over 25 years? In this special conversation for our OneCare Mission Month, our Missions Pastor Carly Cassidy sits down with Pastor Choi and Pastora Alma of ACCC in the Philippines to celebrate a quarter of a century of partnership between our two churches.

From a grieving young pastor and a tiny house church, to feeding programs now reaching more than 500 children a week and churches planting churches, their stories are the book of Acts unfolding in our own day. This is mission as it was always meant to be: not a solo task, but a shared calling. As Pastor Choi puts it, "you haven't given us crumbs, you shared with us your bread." Mission is something all of us are invited into, together.

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What does it actually mean to make disciples? Tim Horman explores Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28, challenging us to move from watching others do ministry to becoming empowered agents in God's mission. Even when we don't feel ready, the Holy Spirit can do extraordinary things through ordinary people. Part of our Mission Month series at One Church.

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