When learning to prophesy, I often find that people fall into one of two mistakes. They’re paralysed by overthinking or limited by underthinking. Some people feel they need the entire prophetic word clear in their mind before they step out and share it. Every detail. Every word. Perfectly honed and clear. And unless they are…
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We Love God’s Spirit (Conference recordings)
Helen and I recently had the joy of speaking at King’s Church Eastbourne for their weekend conference, We Love God’s Spirit. I’m a big fan of this church! We have many friends there and have visited countless times for theology and leadership training, albeit about 15 years ago! So it felt precious to be able…
Returning to our First Love (Revelation 2.1–7)
“What if Jesus’ definition of thriving leaders and thriving churches is different to ours?” Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at Thrive – a conference for the Salt and Light Advance churches of which Oxford Community Church is a part. It was a fantastic event – with powerful times of worship, great speakers, and some…
Listening to the Spirit (Revelation 1)
On Sunday, I finished our sermon series at Oxford Community Church, by preaching from Revelation 1, on the subject of listening to the Spirit. We consider the significance of the church being depicted as a lamp stand, and looked at how Jesus loves to speak to his church, and through his church. If you’d like…
School of the Spirit
In April 2021 Helen and I moved to Oxford, following a series of unexpected prophetic words and dreams. If you’re not bored of having heard the story, you can catch some of it here and my one year update here. It’s been quite a journey, working out precisely why God has called us here, and…
Advent Reflection: The assumptions of Mary
‘“Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne…
Advent Reflection: Five strands to the blessing of Elizabeth and Zechariah
‘In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commands and decrees blamelessly. But they were childless because Elizabeth…
A Personal Update
After twelve years at Christ Church London, God is calling our family onto something new. Later this week, we will be leaving London and relocating to Oxford. We announced the news to our church on Sunday. You can watch a short interview at the bottom of this post, which we recorded for our online services,…
Living by Faith: Enoch
In the first talk of our series on Living by Faith, Liam Thatcher looks at the strange story of Enoch, and considers what it means for us to ‘walk with God’ on a day to day basis. Listen or download audio
The Heart of Worship (Psalm 84)
In this talk from our Empowered service, Liam shares from Psalm 84, and looks at how setting our hearts on worshipping God means we can be refreshed by His presence in every season of life. Listen or download (Right click the link to save)
Liam Thatcher 