God’s Great Party

Every morning I read through a passage in the Old Testament, one in the New Testament and one from either Psalms or Proverbs. I use the Bible In One Year reading plan (https://bibleinoneyear.org/en/) and find it extremely helpful to get this broad overview of...

GPCC Family Fun Day

Today we had the second of our summer fun days, this time at GPCC. On a thoroughly wet and miserable August day (where is summer/?!), it was lovely to welcome 110 people into the building (45 adults and 65 children) and to celebrate ‘God’s Great...

God At The Centre

The kaleidoscope is a toy, an optical device consisting of angled mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured glass in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer. As the section containing the loose fragments is rotated, the image changes, allowing us to view...

Follow Your Heart?

Garry spoke tonight on the theme ‘Follow Your Heart.’ This is definitely the world’s mantra, urging people to do whatever makes them happy and following wherever the heart takes them. The problem is that our hearts can mislead us; as Jeremiah...

An Inconvenient Miracle

This morning we looked at an inconvenient miracle found in Matthew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6 and Luke 6:6-11, where Jesus heals a man with a shrivelled hand in the synagogue on the Sabbath. It’s difficult for us to understand the outrage that this miracle caused, but...