Waiting and anticipating

There’s a lot of waiting and anticipating going on at church right now… we are waiting for one member’s baby (currently affectionately known as ‘Bump’) to arrive and are also counting down the days to the first wedding blessing to be held...

A cool coffee morning!

As the photos below show, the weather in October is becoming decidedly chillier, so the warmth of a hot drink goes down very well at the Saturday coffee mornings!Handing over hot chocolate to a stall holder at the market opposite the church buildingNeeding...

Ephesians 5

Ephesians 5 starts with an exhortation to be imitators of God, which we do by ‘living a life of love’. Very practically, there are aspects of behaviour which are no longer acceptable for God’s people, but more than this, our whole lives need to be...

Remember

Remembrance is a huge topic for Christians. Mark took us through Luke 24 last night to look at this topic, asking us if we remember all that God has said to us.In this chapter, we read how the disciples failed to comprehend all that Jesus had taught them prior to his...

Endurance and perseverance

The word hupomone occurs about 30 times in the New Testament, but is translated into English by a variety of different words, such as endurance, perseverance, steadfastness and patience. Peter tells us to ‘make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to...