What’s Happening
Easter Coffee Morning
Our thanks to all who came and to all who helped at our Easter coffee morning. In addition to home baking from Stacey, Julie, Bev, Beckie and Janet, we had a table top sale and tombola to raise funds for the Parent & Toddler Summer Trip to York Maze. The 53 people...
We Are Redeemed
On Good Friday we enjoyed a fellowship meal together before our service. During that service we looked at the fact that by His death on the cross, Jesus redeemed us from our sins - a fact prophesied before His birth! (see Luke 1:68) In Colossians, we read ‘For he has...
Taught By God
Today we looked at our identity as people who are taught by God (see John 6:45, Isaiah 54:11-13). It’s a privilege to be called God’s people, and this gives us access to a personal relationship with God whereby we can learn directly from Him (see also Jeremiah...
Talking Point
Gay Marriage (2)
The Biblical view of marriage is given in Gen 2:18-25 and is reinforced by Jesus (Matt 19:3-4, Mk 10:2-9). Marriage is between a man and a woman. There are obvious problems with the notion of homosexual marriage, the first being that homosexual practice is not...
Gay Marriage (1)
Garry continued his 'Talking Point' series tonight, looking at the subject of gay marriage. Homosexuality is a 'hot potato' in Christian circules and it is important to stress that we are all sinners saved by grace and that God loves everyone. Jn 3:16-18 emphasises...
Talking Point – Islam
Garry's latest 'Talking Point' sermon looked at the subject of Islam. Headlines appear almost daily in the newspapers informing us of terrorist atrocities committed by radical Muslims, and it is undoubtedly true that violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history, the...
How We Got Here
Fabulous, filling food!
Man doesn't live on bread alone, and neither did we on Saturday! After the Open Day finished, church members and friends who had worked so hard with us on this faith journey had a meal together. In our area, this kind of meal is often known as a 'faith tea', meaning...
Names
Names in the Bible generally have far more significance than in our Western society. Abram ('exalted father') became Abraham ('father of many'). Jacob ('he grasps the heel', figuratively 'he deceives') became Israel ('he struggles with God'). Jesus was thus named...
The Photo Gallery
At the start of the planning for the Open Day, it was decided to use the corridor space to host a photo gallery to show people how the work progressed. We spent one evening looking through hundreds of photos to try to narrow them down to the 46 we could have. In the...