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 tried something different, bringing a flavour of our monthly evening Table Talk service to a Sunday morning. In this service we were encouraged to discuss our own Christian journey to start the process of thinking about sharing our testimonies as part of the church’s 175th anniversary celebration next year. What would you say your journey with Christ has been?
Karen leads the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.
We come to the conclusion of our series in the book of Hebrews as Peter Wells looks at the final theme: a call to persevere. We see in chapter 10 that the writer implores his readers to persevere in faith in many different ways through the phrase “let us”. An encouragement for us to run with perseverance the race marked out before us (sound familiar?) despite whatever potential traps the enemy lays in our way.
James leads the rest of the service as we begin to launch our testimony programme in readiness for our 175th anniversary celebrations next year. Pete leads our sung worship.
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.
Shona leads our all age service for July, continuing our mini-series looking at Jesus’ many parables. This time it is the parable of the sower. We are reminded that when we recieve the good news of Jesus we are to pass it on to others so that God can reap a crop multiple times that which was sown.
Mike leads our sung worship this week.
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.
Chris is away this week and so Graham steps into his place to speak about Jesus’ commands. Sometimes it is tempting to wonder why we should put Jesus’ requests of us into practice. Graham takes us through three events in Luke’s gospel, each of which give us compelling evidence as to who Jesus is and…
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.