Churches Together

The next ‘Churches Together’ meeting will be on Saturday 20th September at 7 p.m. at our building on Market Street. Do put this date in your diaries and aim to be there; these meetings are great for helping us to work with other churches and get to know...

Ongoing refurbishment

Anyone who owns a house knows the adage that there’s always something to be done to keep the house in good repair.  Similarly, owning a church building is a great privilege, since the building facilitates the activities the people want to run, but it also brings...

August news

The holiday season is in full swing! This has implications for the meetings at GPCC. Sunday meetings will continue as usual: morning meetings at 10.30 a.m. and evening meetings at 6 p.m. Don’t forget that on Sunday 10th August, the morning meeting will be at...

Debilitating self-criticism

The Message version of 1 John 3:19-20 talks about ‘debilitating self-criticism,’ that nagging feeling many of us have that we are not fulfilling God’s commandments properly. Over-sensitive hearts can carry heavy loads of condemnation around with them...

God is greater than our hearts

Last night’s Bible study (the last till September, as there are no midweek meetings during August) looked at 1 John 3:19-24. So far in this chapter, we have looked at God’s lavish love (1 John 3:1) who we are in God (‘children of God’ 1 John 3:1-2) doing what is...

Flotsam and jetsam

Flotsam and jetsam are not everyday terms. Technically, they refer to specific kinds of shipwreck: flotsam (from a word originally meaning ‘to float’) is the floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo, whilst jetsam (from the word ‘jettison’,...