Hold on to hope!

As we reach Easter Sunday, our hearts are filled with awe and gladness that we can indeed proclaim that Christ is risen. I often think of what it was like to reach that first day of the week without the benefit of hindsight, however: to view Easter as it must have...

Coffee morning news

We finished the Easter March of Hope at the Pentecostal church’s coffee morning! Thanks were given to all who had helped, especially the stewards, drummer and standard bearer: Inside, we enjoyed drinks and cakes: Thanks to all who helped with the coffee morning...

Easter March of Hope – photos

This morning, members of various churches in Goldthorpe (including the Salvation Army, the local Anglican church, the Roman Catholic church and ours) joined together for an Easter March of hope and witness. GPCC members setting off from Market Street Meeting with...

Easter March of Hope

Don’t forget the Easter March of Hope around Goldthorpe which will start at 10 a.m. today (Easter Saturday) at the Catholic church on Lockwood Road. If you’re not sure where that is, we will be meeting at GPCC for 9. 45 a.m., so you can join us there. We...

Bleakness and brightness

Graham Kendrick’s song ‘Meekness and Majesty’ looks at the paradoxical nature of Christ, who ‘being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;rather, he made himself nothing by taking the...

Expectations

An expectation is what is considered the most likely outcome in a certain situation. We all have expectations of life, whether these are expressed or not. Sometimes, our expectations are realistic and based on reliable experience (we expect that the sun will rise in...