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This week we conclude our short series looking at Jesus’ teaching on prayer. We started the series looking at Matthew’s account of Jesus’ teaching about the Lord’s Prayer and we conclude with Luke writing about the same event. As Chris is away at the Baptist Assembly, Peter Wells speaks on how we can be bold in our prayer life and how our whole lives can become lives of prayer.
Ant leads the rest of the service with some thoughts about our latest new friend, Jim (you had to be there…), whilst Ricky and Dave lead our sung worship.
James leads our All Age Service for May, continuing our look at the parables of Jesus. This time it’s the parable Jesus told about the Banquet. We learn to be humble, not taking the most important place at the table but instead sitting in the least position and awaiting our invitation.
Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship this week.
We continue our new series looking at what Jesus taught us about prayer by looking a bit further on in the Sermon on the Mount to where Jesus is speaking about persistence in prayer. Chris speaks about how our answers from God don’t always come immediately or all in one piece and we need to keep on praying in perseverence (but not too much!) until what God is saying to us is fully revealed.
Karen leads the rest of the service as we have an update from our new mission of the month, AIM, from Kath and Mike and Dave lead our sung worship.
This week we start a new series looking at Jesus’ teaching on the subject of prayer. As Chris is away we invite Kevin Burdett, a former minister of the church, to speak on Jesus’ blueprint for prayer in the midst of the sermon on the mount. In the midst of the busyness of the world…
For our Easter service for 2025 we’re trying something a little different, as we had no Good Friday service we are combining both the events of the last supper, crucifixion and resurrection all in one. In the service Chris speaks about the impact that the resurrection has through Jesus’ words to his disciples in John 15. We see how the resurrection means love, revelation and victory.
Andy leads the rest of the service as we hold communion with one another and think about that great sacrifice on the cross. Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship.
Shona leads our all age service for April as we mark the start of Holy Week for 2025 with the traditional celebration of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, donkey and all. We are reminded that this all happened to fulfil the prophecies in the Old Testament, particularly the one in Zechariah who prophecied about Jesus entering Jerusalem riding on a colt.
Chris leads us in our prayers as we respond in a very unique way. Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
This week we conclude our series in Acts (for now) by looking at Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke’s experiences in Thessalonica and Berea. We see how the enemy ignites opposition to the gospel, so much so that even in the town of “more noble character”, Berea, Paul has to flee down the coast to Athens to escape persecution. Prior to this we read that many of the Jews in Berea were receptive to the gospel and confirmed Paul’s teaching by reading through the scriptures for themselves. This is something we can learn from: don’t take teaching at face value, go and confirm it for yourselves by reading the Bible.
Ant leads the rest of the service whilst Mike leads our sung worship.
Chris continues with our series in the book of Acts. This week we look at the circumstances surrounding Paul and Silas’ imprisonment in Phillipi and their miraculous route to freedom. We regularly discuss Holy Spirit but don’t always mention those spirits (small ‘s’) of evil. In Phillipi we see Paul and Silas dealing with such a spirit in posession of a slave girl. This is not like the films, they don’t make a fuss or use any form of incantations or chanting. How can we use their response as a model for our own?
James leads the rest of the service as we think about the women of the church on Mother’s Day. Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
This week we were visited by incumbent Baptist Union president, Steve Finamore. Steve speaks on Jesus’ first recorded miracle in the book of John, the turning of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. In that passage Jesus takes something unremarkable and changes it so that the jars are overflowing with the finest of wine. If he can do that to a few jars of water then surely he can transform us!
Chris leads the rest of the service (no, he’s not getting a week off!) whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
This week Chris carries on looking at our series in Acts. As Paul, Silas and Timothy continue their journey through modern-day Turkey we see that – after visiting the churches that were planted when Paul visited the first time – may of their options for onward travel are intentionally blocked by the Spirit, directing them towards the coastal city of Troas and across the sea into Macedonia. In this journey God directs them not by speaking directly to Paul or through any kind of prophecy but through gentle nudges and the closing of doors to them. How often has that been our experience?
Susan leads the rest of the service as we invite Tasha, director of the local YFC centre, to speak about their work with young people in schools and churches in the local area and how we can support them in prayer. Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.