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Starting With God: Who is the LORD?

This week Chris continues our Starting With God series by asking the question: who is the LORD? During the 40 years the Israelites spent wandering in the desert God reveals his true self in power to Moses on Mount Sinai. Any preconceptions Moses had were wiped away. Today we see God revealed through the person of Jesus yet we still hang on to our own (sometimes inaccurate) preconceptions of who God really is. How can we, like Moses, have those wiped away?

Lorraine leads the rest of the service as we have a visit from YFC to give us an update on their work with young people in the local area. Mike and Lynne lead our sung worship.

Starting With God: Whatever Next!

A couple of weeks ago in our Starting With God series we were looking at what God’s plans for now are. This week Chris takes it one step further and speaks on what God’s ultimate future plan is for us. Thanks to Jesus death is not the end, we can look forward to an eternity in His presence in a new (and improved) creation.

Lynne leads the rest of the service as Nick and Pete lead our sung worship.

175 Years: Celebrating Our Past, Building For Our Future

This week we have the culmination of our year-long celebrations of our 175th Anniversary, a service where we celebrate our past yet also look forward to building our future. Chris looks at the generations of people whose witness allowed God’s message to flow from a small fenland chapel out into the wider village and beyond and also challenges us as to what we can do to ensure that future generations can also be blessed just as countless people have been before.

Pete leads our sung worship in this special service – stepping out from behind the piano as we experience the styles of worship from decades past, right up to the present day.

Starting With God: What’s He Doing Now?

Last week in our Starting With God series we were reminded that God is not dead (no!), this time Chris takes it one step further to examine that – as He is alive – how is He working out his plans? The answer comes in an unexpected and slightly daunting form: his plans are being worked out through the Church. Through us!

Peter leads the rest of the service as we share communion together and Lynne and Mike lead our sung worship.

Starting With God: God’s Not Dead!

A potential criticism of Christianity could be that we all follow the teachings of a dead leader, interpreted and changed by human minds for 2000 years. But that’s not true, and for one very big reason: God is not dead! In a return to our Starting with God series Chris looks at how that transforms our understanding of scripture and how we should be open to God’s living Spirit in us.

Lynne leads the rest of the service as we begin to think about YWAM for our Mission of the Month and both Lynne and Mike lead our sung worship.

175th Anniversary Harvest Service

After a break of a few months we resume our 175th Anniversary celebrations with our annual celebration of the Harvest festival. Lorraine and Chris lead our service as we not only reflect on God’s provision of food for the year but also remember the witness that our church has been to the wider village over the last 175 years.

I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. (John 4:35-36, NIV)

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

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.