The Blog

Joe Leach - November 2023 This week, we kicked off our new preaching series where we are going to be moving, fairly speedily, through the Gospel of Matthew. I explained that the plan is build the series around the five blocks of teaching that Jesus gives throughout...

Simon Taylor - October 2023   Summer’s over, the nights and cold weather is drawing in…it must be nearly Christmas! As has become our recent seasonal tradition, we here are Grace Church are going to demonstrate the gift of grace by helping those who are in most...

Joe Leach | September As long as Grace Church has existed, a mantra that has been repeated with some regularity is that ‘our Life Groups are the backbone of church life’. So much of what is core to us as a local church (such as pastoral care and discipleship) happens...

Joe Leach | August 2023 When Steve Blaber was preaching on the Parable of the Lost Treasure a couple of weeks ago (Matthew 13v44-45), he read out a famous Jim Elliott quote.              “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” It...

Joe Leach | June 2023 On more than one occasion, a leader from a different church has told me that they were considering becoming a multi-site church. I think they generally expect me to wax lyrical about why I think a multi-site church model is the best thing ever...

Joe Leach | January 2023 I have been so encouraged by the feedback we’ve had from starting the year teaching and preaching into what exactly is going on when we are celebrating communion together. It’s been great to hear of people feeling more released and able to...