We continue our mini-series on being a spirit filled fellowship with the question this week: what does the Holy Spirit do? Chris examines four aspects of the Holy Spirit, how he is a creating, liberating, transforming and empowering Spirit.
James leads the rest of the service with sung worship led by Mike.
In the lead-up to Pentecost in a couple of weeks, we re-visit our series on Being a Fellowship with the first of four services on Being a Spirit Filled Fellowship. This week, Chris looks at the basics: who is the Holy Spirit and how can he be a mediator between us and God?
Andy leads the rest of the service as welcome Anne into membership, share communion with each other and sing togther with music led by Pete.
This week we joined with our fellow Baptist churches across the UK to watch a live stream of the Baptist Assembly Sunday Service from Bournemouth. In the service Alan Donaldson, General Secretary of the European Baptist Federation speaks on our rapidly changing and shifting world and encourages us to make God our dwelling place though all that is going on and whatever is to come.
God often calls on us to wait before He acts in our lives. As Chris is away this week, Andy asks the question: why? And how can God help us when we’re feeling frustrated with waiting?
Karen leads the rest of the service, whilst Mike leads our sung worship.
Following on from last week’s service where Chris talked on how to hear from God, this week we look at how we can make sure that what we do hear is indeed from God. How can we be sure that what we hear is what God wants us to hear and not something that we’re interpreting in the way that we want to see it?
Ant leads the rest of the service as we get an update from Kath on our Mission of the Month for May, AIM, and Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
How do we hear from God? Chris uses the experience of the two followers on the road to Emmaus to examine the different ways God speaks to us, through revelation, scripture and the audible voice of Jesus. What have we missed because we’ve been distracted by the other noises of our lives?
Susan leads the rest of the service, with prayers for our Mission of the Month, Home Mission, and Mike leads our sung worship.
In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul paints rather a bleak picture of how our Christian lives would be utterly futile if Jesus stayed dead on Good Friday. For our Easter service this year Chris looks at Paul’s teachings and the irrefutable evidence that Jesus did raise from the dead that first Easter. This was not a trick, this was not something the disciples came up with just to save face. Jesus rose from the dead. He is alive!
Andy leads the rest of the service whilst Lynne, Pete (with a guest appearance from Ricky!) lead our Easter morning sung worship.
An all-age service for Palm Sunday. This year Chris looks at what Jesus was doing immediately before his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and how the raising of Lazarus from the dead put pressure on the Pharisees to take action and directly led to the events of Jesus’ own death and resurrection.
James leads the rest of the service with contributions from Lyn and Esther and sung worship led by Pete and Nick.
Our series on being a fellowship continues with us discovering how to be an evangelistic fellowship. Chris invites Karl Relton from Countess Free Church in Ely to speak on the evangelism initiatives both he has personally pursued and those that they have pursued as a church. He encourages us that it is not our job to convict people, we simply speak the truth. It is the Spirit’s job to inspire our words in other people.
Chris leads us through the rest of the service with a time of open prayer for our mission of the month, Home Mission, and Mike leads our sung worship.
We continue our series on being a fellowship by this week looking at being a learning fellowship. Instead of our normal sermon we broke into three mini study groups to have a discussion with each other around 1 John 3 and what we each take from it. The groups then fed back to the whole congregation. For those watching online, Chris has provided a video for you to follow whilst we were discussing in the building.
Andy leads the rest of the service with prayers for Mother’s Day and Lynne and Mike lead our sung worship.