Sunday 9th April 2023 | On Easter Sunday, Dr Harvey Kwiyani brings us the third and final part in his series – the resurrection. Building on the previous two weeks’ themes of covenant and priesthood, he explains how Jesus’ resurrection in Luke

Covenant, Priesthood & Resurrection: Part 2 – The Great High Priest

Apr 5th, 2023 23m 38s

Sunday 2nd April 2023 | Dr Harvey Kwiyani continues his 3-part series with the second instalment, focusing on priesthood. Together we explore Hebrews 8, which outlines Jesus as the new high priest, permanently fulfilling the traditional role ca

Covenant, Priesthood & Resurrection: Part 1 – A New Covenant

Mar 28th, 2023 38m 32s

26th March 2023 | Dr Harvey Kwiyani starts his mini-series on covenant, priesthood and resurrection. This week he explains the concept of a covenant, as laid out in the books of Hebrews and Genesis; comparing the sacrificial role of animals in

Abide in Him

Mar 23rd, 2023 44m 12s

Sunday 12th March 2023 | This week we hear from guest preacher Amy Hughes from Trinity Church Nottingham as she takes us through her spiritual journey from childhood to present day, exploring her encounters with the Holy Spirit and His healing

Word. Story. Spirit.—Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus (Week 3: Spirit)

Mar 8th, 2023 40m 40s

5th March 2023 | Kath explores how we can be informed by the Spirit when reading the Bible, taking a range of examples from both Old and New Testaments. We look at the idea of scripture being God-breathed, and how it can be used as a tool for t

Word. Story. Spirit.—Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus (Week 2: Story)

Feb 28th, 2023 43m 48s

Sunday 26th February 2023 | Week 2 of our three-part series on the Bible entitled: Word. Story. Spirit. Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus.This week Jamie explores the idea of the Bible as Story—Story in the human sense, as a body of int

Word. Story. Spirit. —Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus (Week 1: Word)

Feb 22nd, 2023 41m 56s

Sunday 19th February 2023 | We begin a new three-part series on the Bible entitled: Word. Story. Spirit. Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus.Over the next few weeks we will explore the Bible as Word—The Word of God—and in what sense the B

Encounter with Jesus

Feb 15th, 2023 27m 48s

Sunday 12th February 2023 | Rachel Kitchen, from Hope Street Church in Wrexham, comes to preach this week on Jesus’ heart for healing – looking specifically at two individuals in Mark 5; the daughter of Jairus, a synagogue leader, and an unname

God Answers Prayers

Jan 26th, 2023 13m 40s

Sunday 22nd January 2023 | As a continuation from last week, Jamie leads us further in prayer with emphasis on persistence and determination when waiting for God's response. Using the proclamations from Isaiah 35 as inspiration for a future of

Reflection and Prayer

Jan 19th, 2023 34m 14s

Sunday 15th January 2023 | Kath leads us in a time of reflection and prayer for the start of the year; exploring the questions of what we see God doing at the moment in our church family, where he is at work, and how we can join in. Here we als

A vision for prayer in 2023

Jan 12th, 2023 41m 28s

Sunday 8th January 2023 | Dr Harvey Kwiyani shares at our first service of 2023 on the significance of prayer. Harvey explores key biblical passages including Exodus 30, 1 Kings 18 and Revelation 8, explaining how a thriving Christian life is a

Share the Kingdom

Dec 29th, 2022 31m 40s

Sunday 16th October | This week our good friend Alex Rayment, vicar of St Barnabas Penny Lane Church, shared his own story of coming to faith in Jesus and pointed us to the power we all have in sharing our own stories with others.

Herald Carol Service 2022

Dec 13th, 2022 20m 14s

Sunday 11th December 2022 | Kath shares at our Carol Service this year: how the Christmas story is really a story of homecoming, how God sent Jesus into our world in order to bring us home to himself, and how He has now given everything of hims

A Distinctive Community: A People of Faithfulness in a Culture of Individualism

Dec 13th, 2022 33m 46s

Sunday 4th December 2022 | The closing talk in the series ‘A Distinctive Community: How To Be The Church In An Age Of Secularism’. Jamie begins by pulling out the key threads from the past seven weeks, retracing the steps in Jesus’ sermon (Luke

A Distinctive Community: A People of Vulnerability in a Culture of Self-Help

Nov 30th, 2022 33m 22s

Sunday 27th November 2022 | In the penultimate talk in this series Kath looks at Distinctive No. 6: being a people of Vulnerability in a culture of Self-Help. Today’s passage is Luke 6:43-45, and Kath asks the question: “How can we store up goo

Loaves, Fish and Freddos

Nov 23rd, 2022 30m 22s

Cal explains as we launch our Sign of Hope library and gives us three encouragements for taking compassionate steps towards others in our city.

A Distinctive Community: A people of Humility in a Culture of Pride

Nov 22nd, 2022 37m 12s

Sunday 13th November 2022 | In the sixth part in this current teaching series Jamie looks at the sin of pride and the virtue of humility that counters it. Preaching from Luke 6:39-42, he frames our fifth community distinctive, and explores wha

A Distinctive Community: A People of Generosity in a Culture of Judgment

Nov 16th, 2022 37m 2s

Sunday 6th November 2022 | This week is the fifth in our current series, A Distinctive Community: How To Be The Church In An Age Of Secularism, following Jesus’ sermon to the crowds at the foot of the mountain in Luke 6. Jamie preaches from Luk

A Distinctive Community: A People of Blessing in a Culture of Cursing

Nov 2nd, 2022 35m 2s

On Sunday Kath continued our Distinctive Community series by exploring Distinctive Number Three: becoming a People of Blessing in A Culture of Cursing. Preaching from Luke 6:27-36 Kath unpacks the thread of blessing and curse that runs right th

A Distinctive Community: A People of Hunger in a Culture of Apathy

Oct 27th, 2022 34m 22s

On Sunday Jamie continued our Distinctive Community series by exploring distinctive Number Two: becoming a People of Hunger in A Culture of Apathy. Preaching from Luke 6:20-26 (the Blessings and Woes at the start of Luke’s account of Jesus’ Ser

A Distinctive Community: A People of Encounter in a Culture of Cynicism

Oct 12th, 2022 29m 58s

Preaching from Luke 6:12-19, Kath introduces the first of our Community Distinctives: A People of Encounter in A Culture of Cynicism. At Herald, we are called to be a people who proclaim in our city that encounter with Jesus is available for ab

A Distinctive Community: How To Be The Church in an Age of Secularism

Oct 4th, 2022 34m

Jamie introduces a new series, A Distinctive Community: How To Be The Church in an Age of Secularism. In this series we are going to be following Luke 6 as our guide, Luke’s account of Jesus’ Sermon-on-the-Mount and the moment where Jesus sets

What is a ministry time?

Sep 26th, 2022 36m 3s

Kath Brayford explores the Vineyard practice of a ‘ministry time’, why we pray the prayer ‘Come Holy Spirit’ and how we can begin to receive more of the free gift of God available to us today in this way.

Receiving Our Identity

Sep 20th, 2022 28m 50s

Cal Taylor explores how Jesus receives his identity from the father before resisting lies about his value so that, full of the spirit, he can go and respond to the call on his life in a non-anxious, non-restless, non-striving way.

Jesus The Anointed One

Sep 13th, 2022 31m 56s

Harvey Kwiyani preaches from John 1, pointing us to our calling as Christians to be, literally, ‘anointed ones’ who carry the power of Jesus to bring heavenly solutions to our city and in this way see his Kingdom come here in Liverpool.