God’s People – Saints

Dave spoke tonight from Hebrews 11 about saints – God’s people listed there as heroes of the faith. Most people have a very different understanding of the word, associating saints with God’s people, but generally thinking they must be particularly...

Mercy

One of the clearest explanations of mercy I have ever come across is in Phil Wickham’s song ‘Mercy’, where he looks at Adam, at Jesus and at what God’s mercy means for us today. Beautifully poetic and poignant, the song gives us clear insight...

Summer Outreach

Outreach to our community is a vital part of who we are at Goldthorpe Pentecostal Community Church (there’s a clue in the name, after all!) We believe that Jesus brings us good news of forgiveness, hope, restoration and relationship with God and this news is so...

Basil The Branch

Garry told the story of Basil The Branch tonight as he looked at John 15 (‘abiding in the vine’) and fruitfulness. This story by Andrew McDonough shows us Basil striving very hard to produce grapes (the children worked very hard at pulling silly faces to...

A Two-Stage Miracle

This morning in our series ‘The Miraculous & The Mundane’, we looked at how Jesus healed a blind man in two stages (Mark 8:22-26). Instead of instaneously healing someone, it seemed that Jesus healed this man gradually, perhaps to remind us that...

In Praise of Stories

At the start of the year, Dearne Churches Together decided to make parables (stories) the focus of our fun days in 2023. So far, we have explored the theme of kindness (as seen in the Parable of the Good Samaritan), looked at the parable of the Lost Sheep and the...