A New Year affords us a moment to pause and ask ourselves: how do I invest my time, money, passions and relationships wisely in 2017 to ensure I make the most of the year? How can I change old habits, take more risks, grow as a person and ensure I don’t stagnate? With those questions in mind, […]
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Why a Film Review (Home Alone)?
Every Christmas we review a popular Christmas film as a church, and this Sunday 18th December we’ll be watching Home Alone 1. Do join us at 4.15pm. In this blog post I want to give the rationale for why we do this. I have two basic points, with three applications. (1) Films are like sermons […]
Six part blog series on our Vision and Values
Check out all our blogs on our six part series, each is linked below: A Provocative Church (Our Vision – part 1) A Church Not For Ourselves (Our Vision – part 2) What happened to all the fun? (Value 1) When will I grow up? (Value 2) Where is the love? (Value 3) Stop The […]
You Are My Vision by Rend Collective
We asked some of our musicians to tell us about the worship songs they like and why. In this second post, Samuel talks about being encouraged by You Are My Vision. The song ‘You Are My Vision’ by Rend Collective is one of my favourites, because it conveys many important biblical truths. Whenever I listen to it […]
Church Finances: the stats and the state of things
This post is written by Justin Anderson, our past treasurer. — Let me just say this straight up: this blog post is about money. Even more; it is about the Church’s money. I know, bad place to start, very bad place to start, but Jesus talked quite a lot about money, so why shouldn’t I? […]
3 Freedoms that financial giving brings
This Sunday we have a ‘Giving Sunday’, where I’ll teach on the biblical principles of financial giving, and why giving to a local church is a good idea. In this blog post I want to talk about 3 freedoms that come from giving. You see, most people think that if they give financially they’ll ‘lose out’; they’ll […]
Our 3rd Birthday – 3 Reasons To Give Thanks
When you read the Old Testament you continually find that one of the reasons the people of God stumbled and staggered in their journey was due to their bad memory. The years of wandering and the wilderness are often attributed with a failure to remember and give thanks for what God had done. For example, […]
The Intro Course – 3 Reasons To Ask Questions
Last night we kicked off our Intro Course, and had a great start – lots of great conversations, laughter, questions and sharing*. The slogan to the Intro Course is ‘asking the big questions of life’, and as I have been preparing for this course I have been struck once again about the importance of asking questions in […]
The Intro Course (Rebecca’s Story)
We’re coming up to our next Intro Course, and to help you understand what it’s all about and why you might want to come, I interviewed one our previous guests, Rebecca, on her experience of Intro. (1) What is it? The Intro Course is an opportunity to discuss some of the questions we often face […]
Forever by Kari Jobe
We asked some of our musicians to tell us about the worship songs they like and why. In this first post, Leanne talks about choosing songs and why she introduced ‘Forever’ by Kari Jobe to the playlist for our Sunday gatherings and other events. Before I began to lead sung worship I had been a backing […]