Discipleship | Student Christian Movement

Growing as Disciples

15 Apr 2025

With Lent coming to an end, it is a good time to reflect on our discipleship and what inspires us to put our faith into action. The richness, complexity, and personal practices that we engage with express our faith in a way that reflects who we are, and what we are called to do. The end of Lent...

What is Discipleship? Lent 2025

5 Mar 2025

We hear the word ‘discipleship’ a lot within our faith. You may have heard it yourself at a church gathering, Bible study, or just in conversation. What does this really mean? What is discipleship, and how do we be disciples?

Discipleship is more than a theological concept, or complicated...

God is Just: A sermon for the Third Sunday of Epiphany

27 Jan 2025

A transcript of the sermon given by Revd Naomi Nixon, SCM's CEO, at St Mark's Church Leamington Spa on 26th January 2025.

Readings: Matthew 25 31-46, and Luke 1 46-55

When Marcella first asked me to speak this evening it was a hasty doorstep conversation,...

Reading Scripture in Light of Jesus: The Bible as Discipleship

13 Nov 2017

We all come to the Bible with our own ideas and points of view, so I will state up front that when I read Scripture, I read it keeping in mind the Anabaptist perspective and the Congregational way, not because I am particularly attached to those traditions per se, but more because I...

A New Evangelism?

4 Apr 2016

Recently Exeter MethAng held a session on the thorny topic of evangelism, and guess who had the ~~horror~~ privilege of leading it? That’s right, yours truly. To say I was apprehensive would be to misrepresent the facts; I didn’t want to do it at all, but I think that’s why we need to talk...