Birthdays galore!

A number of people have birthdays this coming week, so we had fun celebrating these last night.Two people share the same birthday. Eileen brought her own tiara to wear instead of the ‘birthday hat’, as she is lovingly referred to as ‘The Queen’...

Immanuel, God with us.

Although Isaiah 7:14 is a Scripture traditionally the focus of Christmas services, it’s always good to reflect on the fact that Jesus is ‘Immanuel, God with us’. Mark spoke on this topic last night, starting by commenting that we perhaps would not...

The Cross

John spoke this morning on the subuject of the cross, looking at Romans 5:1-11 as his main text. 1. The Planning of the CrossThe cross was no afterthought in God’s polans, but was planned before the foundation of the world (see 1 Peter 1:19-20, Revelation 13:8,...

Shades of Green

Lest anyone thinks the title of this blog post holds unsavoury connotations, let me hasten to reassure you that this has nothing to do with books! This is the title of an instrumental guitar piece by Phil Keaggy, one of the pieces performed at Abbey Road Baptist...

Front doors

A little while ago we had new front doors fitted, but these had warped and needed to be fixed. Dave spent the day with the joiner who was sorting this out:The panels removed:Fitting new panels:From inside: