by Emily by Maria Father God, Thank You for this time today, bringing us together. Thank you for the power of the Church and this strong, vibrant community. Thank You for your Presence with us today oh God, and Your deep, deep love for Your people. Father, thank You that You are the God of […]
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Prayer – Love Your City
Last year as a church we called the month of May RENEW and set it aside for reflection and prayer, asking God to renew us. Each day of the month a prayer guide was sent out and we received hugely positive feedback on how helpful that was. Well, this year we want to do something […]
Hebrews – Jesus Is Better!
One of the great challenges as a Christian is to ‘keep on going…when the going gets tough’. A whole generation of the Israelites didn’t make it to the promised land; because, when thing got tough their hearts turned away from God and so they never entered their rest. And it’s the same for us when […]
2020 Vision – The Spirit filled Church
We’re starting 2020 thinking about the person and the work of the Holy Spirit. We started in 1 Corinthians 12-14 looking at Spiritual gifts, and for the rest of the month of February, we’re going to look at three passages in the book of Acts, reflecting on the Holy Spirit’s work to empower the early […]
Zambia Trip – Help Vinjeru School
In April 2020 we are sending another team(Maffy & Emma, Drew, Martina and Andrew) for the fourth year now to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia. Some good friends of Steve, Leanne, Justin & Caroline live there and run Vinjeru School, with the vision of bringing high quality education to the young people in the town. There’ll […]
6.30 – Faith & Work
For the last 4 years we have run a course for growing Christian leaders with a view to leadership in the church. This year we’re doing something slightly different. We’re going to run a course around the topic of faith and work to help equip Christians to integrate their faith and work. We also wanted to […]
The Importance Of Hell
Jesus repeatedly said there would be a cost to following him and that we must not be ashamed of him or his words (Mark 8:24-28). He famously said to his disciples in John 15:18-20: 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you […]
Spiritual Gifts – One Body, Many Parts
We are going to start 2020 by looking at the topic of spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12-14. Confusion Few topics have generated as much debate and division in the western church over the last 50 years than the topic of spiritual gifts. What are they? How should we practice them today? Should we continue […]
An Upside-down Kingdom – Parables In Luke’s Gospel
Following on from our series last year looking at the meals with Jesus in Luke’s gospel, this term we’re going to look at the parables of Jesus in Luke’s gospel and think more about the upside-down kingdom that Jesus inaugurated. An upside-down kingdom Luke was the writer of both the gospel of Luke and the […]
2 Timothy – courage in the gospel
Each September we spend the month revisiting our vision as a church – Who are we? What has God called us to do? Why do we exist? How do we keep ‘the main thing’ the main thing? And to help us do that this year we’re going to spend 4 weeks in the book of […]