What are you worth?

The family service on 7th November looked at the topic of value and worth.Mark reminded us, from Matthew 13:44-46, that we are all of great value to God. God sees us as His treasure, as something worth giving His best for. We looked at family photographs and thought...

Burgin’s Real Deal

For those of you familiar with TV programmes, we ran our own version during the family service: Burgin’s Real Deal! Stephen brought three valuable items to be auctioned: an ornament of a baby, a large, dusty family book and a necklace. These items, representing...

The Lamb of God

Mark began his sermon today by playing a word association game with us: he gave us the word ‘lamb’ and the associations were all to do with food! (Mint sauce… lamb chops… donner kebabs etc… It’s good to see what we’re all...

Photos of Ephesus

Mark was recently on holiday in Turkey and managed to visit Ephesus, which was obviously very relevant to our study of Ephesians. This week at the prayer meeting we also looked at some photos of Ephesus and learned more about the history of the place. The size of the...

Peter

Garry started a character study looking at the apostle Peter this Sunday evening. Peter is the disciple mentioned in all 4 Gospel accounts about whom the most information is given; highly vocal, often impetuous, his life is one with which we easily identify.Garry...

The power of the Word

This Sunday morning we were not at GPCC… we were visiting Steve and went to his church, Holy Trinity Platt, in Manchester. Steve James, the rector there, preached from Mark 4 on the parable of the sower, the sermon being entitled “The Seed of the...