Oral language

Some people have asked why we wanted to spend a large part of the Easter holiday weekend (over 4.5 hours) watching a film of Matthew’s Gospel. After all, we have all read Matthew’s Gospel before; there’s nothing unfamiliar about this story, so what...

Easter March of Hope

Today the local churches joined together for an Easter March of Hope, starting off from the coffee morning: A very obedient dog: Setting off: Singing on the main road: Outside Asda: Continuing on:

Easter visuals

We worship an invisible God, but there are many visual things we do to try to help us to capture all He has done for us. Some of these things include displays commemorating Easter in our local churches: At the local parish church:

Finished!

‘It is finished!’ (John19:30)   God is the Creator of all; He is the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega. When God finished His work of creation in the beginning, He saw that it was good. (Gen 2:1-2) John has already reflected this work in the beginning...

Easter meetings

Easter is a very special time in the Christian calendar, for we celebrate at this time the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here, we’re at the very heart of the gospel, looking into how our salvation was actually purchased for us and it’s...

The Physical and the Spiritual

‘I thirst.’ (John 19:28) In Greek, this one-word cry of Jesus expresses something of the physical agony He suffered on the cross. Jesus was, we must remember, fully human; He is the Word made flesh (John 1:14) and as a human being, He suffered the physical pain and...