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Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer: Ask, Seek, Knock

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.

Love

We continue on the journey towards Christmas by lighting the forth candle on our advent wreath, this year representing love. Chris speaks on the word given to Joseph by the angel of the Lord in a dream leading to his decision to marry Mary. We discover the love of Joseph, Mary and most of all,…

Baptism of Freya Griffiths

This Sunday we celebrated the baptism of Freya Griffiths. Freya gives a powerful testimony on how God has helped her in her life and follows the example of Jesus by going through the waters of baptism to symbolise the inner change that God has made and affirm her commitment to him. Chris speaks on the place that baptism has in God’s plan for the world and gives an opportunity for those that have not yet fully accepted Jesus to take that tentative first step in trusting God.

James leads the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Talking Jesus

Yesterday we held our away day with Rachael Heffer, head of mission at the Evangelical Alliance, spoke about their research programme “Talking Jesus”. In this service Chris summarises what we heard – both from Rachael and from God – and the small group leaders feed back to the wider church family the thoughts that arose from our discussions in the afternoon sessions.

James leads the rest of the service whilst Mike and Ricky (for some reason with the video horribly out of sync – sorry chaps!) lead our sung worship.

More and More Pleasing God

In the book of Matthew Jesus divides people into two groups: the sheep and the goats. The sheep follow God’s ways and are pleasing to him whereas the goats are more content in going their own way and this does not please God. In our All Age Service for April Chris looks at how we can be a sheep and not a goat, pleasing God through the ways that we serve him.

Ant is this weeks’ master of ceremonies and Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Palm Sunday 2024

Who do you say Jesus is? In our service for Palm Sunday this year Chris challenges us to go beyond the surface level “Palm Sunday” faith, let Jesus work through us and live our lives to our true potential.

Ant leads the rest of the service with a reflection on the many names of Jesus whilst Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship.

Science Sunday 2023: Ornitheology

This week we held our annual Science Sunday service for 2023. This is a service whereby we aim to demonstrate that science and Christianity are not as incompatible as some would have us believe. This year, we invite back Prof Mel Euerby who speaks about his passion for birds and photography, drawing links between the amazing diversity of bird life on Earth and showing how that demonstrates God’s love through the natural world.

Chris leads the rest of the service with prayers for scientists and Pete leads our sung worship.

Following Jesus

Peter Wells makes the perilous journey of 6 miles from Lode to Burwell to bring us our message this week. He speak on the calling of the first disciples and how Jesus bucked the trend of the Jewish Rabbis of the time by selecting his own disciples and calling those that nobody would have guessed. Alone they were just ordinary fishermen and tax collectors, yet because of Jesus’ calling they started a long chain of testimony that reaches through history right to us today. How can we carry on propogating the message?

Andy leads the rest of the service whilst Mike leads our sung worship.