6.1 We believe that the Church is made up of all true Christians, from every race and every age in history. Christ is the Head of the Church, and exercises authority over it. Press here for further information about this
Happy Christmas, People!
This is the second in a series of five sermons for Christmas 2023 which come under the general title: “What is a Happy Christmas?” This sermon links especially to Luke 2:25-35 in the Bible. Photos by Sarah Evans and Nick
Patience runs out (HCTW 42)
He Changed The World – for an introduction to this series of talks, please click the title. Mark 11:27-12-11Using the player above you can listen to/download the talk, which also includes the Bible being read out. Once you’ve listened, take
A revolutionary poem
Hannah has had her prayers heard by the Lord. Now she responds with thanksgiving and sacrifice. Her response becomes a memorable Psalm of Israel, but also a subversive one because it speaks of how God reverses situations to overturn the
Lending to the Lord
Hannah is spiritually concerned woman driven to prayer by her infertility but able, too, to see the wider need around her. Yet the leaders who should help her in this time – the priests – are failing: they give no
From a small seed
Israel around the year 1100BC is in social chaos with no reliable, godly leadership to bring them out of it. The mess is clearly visible in the personal pain of one man’s family. They may worship God together but the
God writes history
God is the sovereign ruler over all the earth and over all its history. His work in history, however, follows repeated patterns. So by learning of what he’s done in the past we can better understand ourselves in the present.
Forsaken? No!
Psalm 22 sings with the voice of a king of Israel cut off from God and mocked by others, who clings on and comes through to glorious hope. Jesus takes that Psalm onto his lips as he approaches death. It
The pattern of three
Jesus told his disciples repeatedly that in Jerusalem he would suffer and be rejected, die and then rise again. Now those three steps are being played out before their eyes. Driving home the lesson, the number three echoes through Mark’s
A new Passover [2]
On the evening before he dies, Jesus shares an intimate meal with his disciples. It begins as a Passover, but feels like no other Passover meal his team have ever had, as the threat of his death hangs over the