Speaking of prayers…

Speaking of prayers, don’t forget that Thursday is the final prayer walk of the year and Mark has asked us to bring our own written prayers to pray on the streets of Goldthorpe! Se spend some time today and tomorrow thinking and praying and let’s make the...

An Advent Prayer

I don’t know the origins of this Advent prayer, but I thought it was worth sharing:May God bless us with a restless discomfortat easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships,so that we may seek truth boldlyand love deep within our heart.May God bless...

The Lord of Time

Mark spoke on the subject of time last night, looking first of all at the vastly popular subject of time travel. We considered various films and programmes looking at this theme, from Dr Who:to H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ (which scared him...

Time travel

Tonight’s family service looked at the theme of time and the quiz was all about time travel films!Some of these were from long ago:(It’s A Wonderful Life)(Dr Who)(Planet of the Apes)(Groundhog Day)(Back to the Future trilogy)(Time and Relative Dimension in...

Scandalon

Michael Card has taken the theme of the stumbling-block mentioned in Psalm 118:22 and 1 Peter 2:7-8 TNIV and written a song about it called ‘Scandalon’, the Greek word for stumbling block or rock which is a cause of stumbling. Peter applies the verse in Psalm 118:22...