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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.
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.
Susan brings us the message this week from Psalm 23, leading us through a reflection on each of the different sections of David’s most famous psalm. We are reminded that turning our hearts toward God in every situation that we find ourselves in is essential in keeping us on the right paths laid out before us.
Andy leads the rest of the service with a bit of a blast from the past whilst Pete leads our sung worship this week.
This week Liz Kinsella visited us from Tearfund to speak both about their work, particularly in South Sudan, and also remind us that God can multiply whatever little we think we have and use it to create lasting transformation. Ant leads the rest of the service with a timely reminder that none of us are…
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.
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.
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.
The true wonder of the Kingdom of God is something that is impossible for us to understand. In the next in our Starting with God series Chris looks at how the the Bible uses metaphors and similies, models that we do understand, to give us a glimpse at the indescribable. Susan leads the rest of…
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.
In our August all age service Chris (standing in for Peter) looks at the opening verses of Psalm 1 and explains how we need to be deeply rooted in the Spirit, like a tree planted near streams of water, to truly flourish in our relationship with God and allow Him to work through us.
Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.