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When we make a decision, conscious or unconscious, to not follow God wholeheartedly we can be sent into exile from Him. Not a physical exile like those experienced in the Old Testament but a spiritual exile where it feels like our connection with God is frayed or even totally broken. In the next in our…
After a short Easter break this week we’re back in our series Starting With God. The writer of Ecclesiastes examines the whole of existence in his book and comes to the conclusion that “everything is meaningless”. But with one proviso: “everything is meaningless” without God. Chris looks at the dead ends that can occur in our lives if we try to exist without God directing us and how He gently but firmly brings us back to the path to life if we allow Him to.
Andy leads the rest of the service as Susan brings us prayers for Home Mission, our mission of the month for April, and Mike and Lynne lead our sung worship.
This week we held our All Age Service for April as Shona leads us in thinking about part of Ezekiel’s vision where the dead sea is transformed from a salty and lifeless body of water into a sea teeming with life like the Mediterranean. We hear testimony from members of the congregation of how God has restored their own “dead seas” into seas full of life.
We end the service with an extended period of sung worship led by Pete and Nick as we welcome the Fuel Cast crew to document the faith stories of several of those in the congregation over the next couple of days.
Christ is risen!
For our celebration of the resurrection this year we look at the differing responses to experiencing the risen Jesus, specifically the four people mentioned in John chapter 20. Chris examines looks at the meaning of the resurrection for Mary, the Disciples in the upper room, Thomas and John himself before expanding it and thinking about what it means to us too.
Ant leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
Holy Week begins for this year with the usual celebration of Palm Sunday, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on the back of an up to then unridden donkey. There were many different responses amongst the people of Jerusalem: many in favour and others vehemently opposed to Jesus. But nobody was on the fence. We face a choice then, are we to surrender our all to Jesus and accept him as King? Or are we going to reject him just like the Pharisees and teachers of the Law?
Karen leads the rest of the service whilst Lynne and Mike lead our sung worship.
This week Chris continues looking at his series in Starting with God, this week looking at the choices we make. There is a difference between fate and destiny. Fate (which is not real, by the way) gives you no choices in life, you’re restricted to the train tracks laid out in front of you. Destiny is different, where God gives us the choice to follow His way which leads to life or the other ways which…. don’t. But whichever path we choose God always gives us the opportunity to turn towards His way.
Susan leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
Chris continues his series in Starting With God by looking at all of those things that we contstruct for ourselves to replace God or to divert our attention away from Him. The Bible has a word for those things: idols. Idols can even be things that make us think that God approves of what we’re…
James and Chris lead our all age service for March, where we’re looking at Psalm 1 in the context of our year text. In the Psalm we’re told that someone who delights in the word of God is like a tree planted by a stream and that gets all it needs from that stream. Like the tree we also need to be constantly beside that stream of living water to ensure that we don’t miss out on God’s sustenance.
Mike and Lynne lead our sung worship this week.
Chris continues our journey in Starting with God by this week looking at having intimacy with God. At the foot of Mount Sinai God spoke to His people who he had guided out of slavery in Egypt. They were so afraid that none of them wanted to go up the mountain and seek true intimacy with Him, they rejected God’s true purpose for them because of fear. We now, through Jesus, recieve that same invitation to experience the fulness of God. Will we accept or will we – like the Israelites – be content with holding God at arm’s length?
Ant leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
This week we hosted Mervyn Thomas, co-founder of our mission of the month for February CSW, who spoke to us about persecuted peoples across the world. Merv has over 40 years of experience in advocating for persecuted people groups and shares with us how we can fulfil God’s calling for us to speak up for and stand with those who are persecuted for their faith.
Karen leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.