What’s Happening
Wise Words To Live By
At our Bible study last night, we also looked at the words of Jesus in Matt 7:1-12, which look at a range of subjects about how best to live as people in God's kingdom. His words on prayer remind us of the need to persevere: we must ask, seek and knock, but again, He...
Don’t Worry!
'Don't worry' is the unequivocal command of Jesus in Matthew 6:25-34. We might find this hard to obey, since we are so prone to worry, anxiety and fear, but Jesus reminds us in these verses of the reason we do not need to worry: we have a heavenly Father who loves us,...
Pray For The World
We enjoy eating cuisine from around the world at our fellowship meals each month, so we have decided to learn more about each country and to spend that month praying for whichever country whose cuisine we have sampled! In March, we enjoyed a range of Mexican food and...
Talking Point
Holy Communion
In most churches there is the opportunity on Sundays to participate in the Eucharist, to eat bread and to drink wine in remembrance of what Christ has done for us on the cross and to give thanks for the salvation which His death and resurrection have secured for all...
To Be In God’s Presence
Dave spoke tonight from Luke 10:30-42. In this passage, we see Jesus and His disciples stopping at Bethany, at the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Martha seems to have been proactive in welcoming Jesus and looked after Him well. Jesus used this opportunity to...
What’s In A Name?
The Bible is full of names, many of them unpronounceable to English tongues, and often skipped over as we read the Bible because of their unfamiliarity and our impatience with lists. They remind us, nonetheless, that giving something or someone a name is a vital...
How We Got Here
Months later…
Do you ever reach the end of a book where all the strands are neatly tied together and wonder 'what happens next?' to the characters?I love books which feature the same characters, as essentially I get engrossed with them and want to know how things work out for them,...
New blog!
This blog will soon be running out of things to say, since it was created specifically to chart the progress of the church as it renovated St Mark's. Once I've got all the details down about the Open Day, I won't be posting here any more.But do not despair! The church...
A House of Prayer
One of our prayers is that the new building will indeed become a house of prayer. At the Open Day, we listed the many answers to prayer we have seen over the journey to acquire St Mark's and renovate the building, and we look forward to recording many more answers.A...