Equippers Surrey's Podcast

You've been invited. The question is — what are you going to do about it?In this first message of the RSVP series, Ps Mark Collard opens up the parable of the great banquet from Luke 14 and draws out one of the most practical challenges in the New Testament: the kingdom of God grows when the invited become the inviters. The man in the parable is God. The feast is the kingdom. And the excuses — the field, the oxen, the new marriage — are as familiar today as they were two thousand years ago. Career, kids, comfort, hobbies, money, busyness: all good things, all capable of becoming the reason we pull back from the very feast we've been invited into. Mark doesn't just name the excuses — he shows how to flip them. Your job is your mission field. Your new house is a place of hospitality. Your kids aren't a reason to step back; bring them with you. And as for the invitation itself? The kingdom is ready now. Not at Christmas, not when life settles down, not after the renovation. Now. RSVP.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

God doesn't ask you to go because you're the most qualified. He asks you because he knows what's in you.In this message, Charlie MacIntosh opens up the story of Moses from Exodus 3 and 4 — not the confident Moses who parted the Red Sea, but the Moses who had fled to Midian, was hiding out as a shepherd, and immediately responded to God's call with a list of reasons why he was the wrong person for the job. And she uses that as a lens for a question that she's been living with for years: will you go? Will you go when you don't feel qualified? Will you go when you're scared of what you might be walking into? Will you go when the comfortable option is so much easier? From leaving a decade-long graphic design career to fly across the world for a year of Bible college, to boarding a plane to New Zealand to spend a week with someone she'd never met in person — Charlie brings four lessons from Moses's story to help us say yes when God is asking us to go.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Your current harvest is connected to yesterday's seed. Your future harvest is connected to what you're sowing today.In this evening message, Ps Mark Collard opens up one of the most consistent principles in scripture — sowing and reaping — and makes it deeply personal. He walks through 2 Corinthians 9, Galatians 6, Psalm 126, and the parable of the sower to show that the kingdom of God advances through seed, not by chance. But this isn't just a message about money. Seed is your words, your thoughts, your time, your prayers, your faith, your service, and God's word spoken over your life. Mark shares honestly about harvest he didn't like, seed he needed to change, and the prayers he's currently sowing — from 1,000 in Sunday attendance to 100 baptisms in 2027 to a movement of 100 churches across the United Kingdom. And then he closes with this: he doesn't know how it's going to happen. His job is just to sow.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.Your current harvest is connected to yesterday's seed. Your future harvest is connected to what you're sowing today.In this evening message, Ps Mark Collard opens up one of the most consistent principles in scripture — sowing and reaping — and makes it deeply personal. He walks through 2 Corinthians 9, Galatians 6, Psalm 126, and the parable of the sower to show that the kingdom of God advances through seed, not by chance. But this isn't just a message about money. Seed is your words, your thoughts, your time, your prayers, your faith, your service, and God's word spoken over your life. Mark shares honestly about harvest he didn't like, seed he needed to change, and the prayers he's currently sowing — from 1,000 in Sunday attendance to 100 baptisms in 2027 to a movement of 100 churches across the United Kingdom. And then he closes with this: he doesn't know how it's going to happen. His job is just to sow.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Ever looked at your life and thought, "God, you've got the wrong person"? This message is for you.Ps Monica Collard looks at the story of Gideon, a scared farmer hiding in a wine press who God called a mighty warrior. God's favour isn't just something He gives you. It's something He grows in you. If fear, past pain or excuses have kept you hiding, this is your invitation to step out in the strength you already have.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Everything you're standing in today is the harvest of someone else's seed. The question is: what are you sowing for tomorrow?In this Impact Sunday message, Ps Steve Graham traces the principle of seed time and harvest from Isaiah's prophecy about Jesus — "of the increase of his government there will be no end" — through the parable of the rich fool, and into one of the most striking passages in the New Testament: 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, where the word grace appears nine times in the context of a financial offering. He unpacks two reasons the Macedonian church begged to be included in the giving: favor — they wanted to be in the flow of God's grace — and fellowship — they wanted to be able to say they had a part in it. From there he goes to David at the threshing floor, and finds a challenge that cuts both ways: I will not piggyback on your generosity; I want to partner in giving myself. And he closes with what might be the most important question of the night: are you ready to sow more seed for another cycle of harvest?ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Giving that costs nothing isn't really giving. And it isn't really worship.In this Impact Sunday message, Ps Mark Collard builds a theology of generosity around three simple but weighty ideas: our giving is worship, our giving is seed, and our giving is often the key to our breakthrough. He opens with 2 Corinthians 9 — the call to hilarious, overflowing, freely-given generosity — and traces it through David refusing a free offering at Araunah's threshing floor ("I will not present burnt offerings to the Lord my God that have cost me nothing"), through the feeding of the five thousand, and finally to one of the most striking stories in the Old Testament: the widow of Zarephath who, with her last handful of flour, gave first — and never ran out again. There's also a principle here that goes beyond money: abundance does not grow in times of abundance. It grows when you choose generosity in a season of scarcity. This message will challenge and encourage you wherever you are with your giving.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Everything's falling apart. Yet I will rejoice.That's the statement Ps Mark Collard builds this message around — the final verses of Habakkuk, a prophet writing into total economic and national collapse who somehow lands on a declaration of exuberant, dancing, spinning-for-joy rejoicing. Not in his circumstances. In his Saviour. This message explores why joy is not a feeling you wait for but a choice you make — and it unpacks five practical keys to staying in joy when life is genuinely hard. There's also a moment of rare pastoral honesty as Mark shares something that hit him like a revelation after over 40 years of faith: "I'm learning that what I care about, God cares about." If you're feeling weary, worn out, or like the enemy has stolen your strength without you even noticing how — this message is for you.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

God's favour isn't just for you. It's meant to flow through you.In this message from The Favour Effect series, Ps Steve Graham reframes what it means to live under God's favour — not as a personal blessing to accumulate, but as a channel to unlock blessing in the lives of the people around you. He traces the concept through the Old Testament: Noah saving his generation, Moses seeking favour and finding it, Daniel receiving favour with officials in a pagan empire, Esther saving a nation. But the main case study is Joseph. At every stage — Potiphar's house, prison, Pharaoh's palace — the same process is at work: God's presence and kindness opens doors of favour with people, which creates opportunities to use God-given gifts, which then unlocks blessing in the environment. And by the end of his life, Joseph understood what it had all been for. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good — the saving of many lives." The journey from receiving favour to channelling it is the journey of every person called by God. And God has already wired into you a unique, multifaceted blend of grace gifts — a fragrance the master perfumer designed specifically for your world. The question is whether you'll discover it, develop it, and let it loose.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

Walking with God is not just a moment when you started your journey. It's a daily lifestyle — and it's the best way to live.In this message, Ps Binu Thampy traces the concept of walking with God from Adam and Eve all the way through to Enoch, Noah, Abraham, David, and into the New Testament — and shows that the whole thread of the Bible is God's desire to walk with us. Not just to save us, but to be with us every single day. He answers the questions we quietly ask: Does God really want to walk with me? Do I have to be perfect? How do I even start? And then he builds a picture of what it looks like when you do — four natural symptoms of a life lived close to God. Confidence that doesn't waver when the bad news arrives. Joy that doesn't depend on your circumstances. A prophetic sensitivity to hear God's voice at the crossroads. And a blessing that flows from who you are in him, not what you can accumulate. Wherever you are in your walk tonight, this message is an invitation to come closer.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.

What if the Psalms were the greatest playlist ever made?In this message, Ps Sam Malcolm opens up Psalm 127 — a wisdom psalm — and unpacks one of the most freeing truths in Scripture: let God build, and let God bless. From a summer CD-burning nostalgia trip to the hustle culture videos filling up our Instagram feeds, Sam traces a line between the way the world tells us to build our lives and what Solomon, the wisest person who ever lived, says about it. Unless the Lord builds the house, the work of the builders is wasted. That covers everything — career, family, finance, ministry, even where your kids go to school. The good news? God gives rest to his loved ones. He enjoys it. And the wisest thing you can do tonight is not to work harder, but to put it in his hands — and trust that the maker of heaven and earth is watching over your coming and going, both now and forever.ABOUT EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREYWe believe that Church is where you can encounter the love of Jesus and find out who you were created to be. Our mission is to equip people for life through faith in Jesus Christ.Website: https://www.equippers.co.ukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equippers.surrey/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equipperschurchukNEXT STEPS- New to church? We would love to meet you! Fill out a connect card here: https://equippers.co.uk/new-to-equippers/- Subscribe for more weekly messages.