This week we begin a short series looking at the theme of being saved. We are saved by grace, through faith, for good works. Today: saved by grace. Chris speaks about the nature of grace, why it is needed, why God gives it as a gift and how we should respond to that gift.
Ant leads the rest of the service as he thinks about the past, present and future whilst Pete leads our sung worship.
For our all age service for August James and Chris continue the series looking at the parables of Jesus, this time looking at the two joint parables of the mustard seed and the yeast. In the parables Jesus demonstrates how the Kingdom of God starts off in the small things but each of those grow to have a disproportionately huge effect on the environment around them.
Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship for this week.
This week we carry on with our series in Hebrews with Chris focussing on us resting in God’s presence. We see how this develops from God resting on the seventh day of creation through the years of Jubilee given to the Israelites to us today being invited – through Jesus – into God’s eternal presence. All we need to do is believe and not fall away.
Andy leads the rest of the service while Lynne and Dave lead our sung worship.
Chris continues with our series looking at the themes throughout the book of Hebrews by this time highlighting maturity. We are told throughout scripture to have a strong foundation to our faith. This is undoubtedly important! But if we stay at that level and do not mature we are not living up to our true potential in God. Chris looks at how we can become more mature as Christians.
Susan leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
Chris continues with our series in Hebrews, this time looking at what the writer has to say on the topic of faith. How is our faith defined? Do we think that by having more faith will make God notice us more? No! The quantity of faith doesn’t matter, it’s what it prompts us to do that counts.
James leads the rest of the service as (another) James from YFC helps us to launch our new Monday night series “Battle Plan” around praying for children and young people. Mike leads our sung worship.
Today we continued our series looking at the themes that run through the book of Hebrews with Chris speaking on the concept of a new covenant with God. Thanks to Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice the Old Testament covenant of animal sacrifices and offerings is fulfilled and a new covenant has taken its place. We are free from the burden of sin and have uninterrupted access to the Father through the Spirit. Wow!
Susan leads the rest of the service as we reflect back on our away day that was held yesterday and what God is saying to us as a fellowship. Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
This week we begin a new series looking at the themes that run through the book of Hebrews. Chris starts off by focussing on the first four verses of the book where the author is beginning to explain who Jesus is. Through these few short verses we see that Jesus is better than anything we could possibly imagine!
Andy leads the rest of the service as we respond to our previous series on prayer, whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
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.
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.
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.