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Starting With God: You Are My God

This Sunday we celebrated the baptisms of Abs and Luke, two people who have decided to make the outward declaration of their faith and follow Jesus through the waters. We hear from both of them as they share their testimonies with us, of how God has led them both in their lives and helped them make the decision to publically profess their faith.

Elsewhere in the service Chris (who has been relegated to the second paragraph this week – I’m sure he won’t mind!) continues in our Starting With God series by looking at David’s declarations that God is his God. We see that what we choose to worship reflects our deep-rooted priorities and how we too can join David in his declarations.

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

Starting With God: Something Solid

We all know that there is a difference between learning about something in an abstract manner and experiencing it first hand. Having a stuffed animal doesn’t prepare you fully for meeting one of those animals in real life. Chris takes that metaphor and applies it to God. We can learn all we like about him but until we truly have an experience of Jesus we can’t possibly begin to understand what he is really like.

Ant leads the rest of the service whilst Lynne and Mike lead our sung worship.

Starting With God: A Rose by any Other Name

Names are important. They can convey so much more meaning than simply what the word literally means. So what can we learn from God’s name revealed to Moses: I Am Who I Am? Chris speaks on how through speaking His name God reveals part of his nature to us.

Lynne leads the service this week as we celebrate another dedication whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Starting With God: Reliable Data

We’ve spent the last weeks in our Starting With God series looking at how having an intimate relationship with God is of ultimate importance in our lives. But in 1 Corinthians Paul says that striving for that relationship is futile if we don’t have evidence to back up our convictions. Chris looks at the “reliable data” that Paul provides to show that what we believe is actually true.

Lynne leads the rest of the service as Koa is dedicated to God and welcomed into the Burwell Baptist Church family, whilst Pete leads our sung worship.

Starting With God: A Lamp to My Feet

In Psalm 119 the psalmist says that God’s word is a lamp to their feet and a light to their path. In the next in our Starting with God series Chris looks at how the word of God is essential to our journey, guiding our way through the darkness of life and illuminating the true path to Jesus.

Leading the rest of the service we have another making their debut as Peter W shares his experience of walking in the dark, whilst Pete R leads our sung worship.

Starting With God: Born Again

Throughout the New Testament it is stated that we should be born again in Christ. Continuing our Starting with God series, Chris speaks on how this is not a literal re-birth but a spiritual one. Putting to death our old sinful selves and instead living our lives moulded and guided by Jesus.

Susan leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Starting With God: Heaven

The book of Revelation can be an incredibly difficult book to understand, however in the concluding chapters of John’s vision it gives us a picture of God’s ultimate plan: a new heaven and a new earth, free from death and suffering. Until then we will endure trials, grief and harship on this current earth. In an incredibly poignant sermon reflecting the season we are currently walking through as a church family Chris reminds us that we do this knowing that God does not abandon us to live life alone, he stands with us and experiences our all of our pain and sadness alongside us.

Our sung worship is led by Pete and Nick as we also share Communion together.

Starting With God: Holiness

Chris continues his series in Starting With God by this week looking at God’s holiness. There are some passages in the Bible that can be very difficult to understand, some that we may even choose to ignore or turn a blind eye to. But we should not be turning away from the things that we “don’t like”. God defines holiness, even if we don’t understand why things happen, we need to trust that his plan is perfect and put our hope in Jesus who intimately reveal’s God’s character to us.

Shona leads the rest of the service whilst Mike and Lynne lead our sung worship.