It’s Pentecost Sunday and our service today is full of the joy of the Spirit. Our Virtual Choir is back and we are showing the poster that YOU made…
Here are the links referred to in our service:
Virtual Coffee (starts at 11.15am)…
Activity Sheet for children and families…
Both readings are included in the service.
Reader: Nnamdi Maduka
Preacher: Christoph Lindner
This service will be available from Thursday, 21 May, 7am onwards.
This talk is based on John 16.5-15. The reading is included in the service.
Preacher: Christoph Lindner
Our service is all about journeys and a special journey that took place on the first Easter Sunday.
Join us for Virtual Coffee after this service at 11.15am…
Activity Sheet for children and families…
Ian’s article and video about Grief in the time of isolation…
This talk is based on Matthew 28.1-10.
The reading is included in the service.
Preacher: Christoph Lindner
This talk is based on John 8.46-end.
The reading is included in the recording.
Reader: Ian Jennings
Preacher: Christoph Lindner
Sermon preached by Christoph Lindner on Sunday 1 March, 10.30am service.
This sermon is based on Matthew 3.16-4.11.
Collect
Heavenly Father, your Son battled with the powers of darkness, and grew closer to you in the desert: help us to use these days to grow in wisdom and prayer that we may witness to your saving love in Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.
Sermon preached by Christoph Lindner on Sunday 23 February, 10.30am service.
This sermon is based on Acts 4.5-13 and Luke 7. 11-23.
During our service and at the beginning and end of this sermon, we sang and prayed this hymn:
Here are the notes from page 1 of our news sheet:
Healthy Family: What we need is a miracle
“Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles.” (Acts 2.43)
Jesus and his disciples spread the good news in both proclamation (preaching) and demonstration (healings, miracles).
For Luke, who wrote a gospel and the Book of Acts, signs and wonders
Wherever signs and wonders are done in the name of Jesus today, they have the same potential. God works through the regular rhythms and rules of creation (e.g. modern medicine!), in response to faithful prayer and through specific acts of grace, sometimes miraculous.
Healthy Habits
From Pentecost we will explore and practise healthy habits of Christians. When we grow in Christlikeness, that itself is a gift of God’s grace. The more we practise healthy habits, the more signs and wonders we will see, with the habit of prayer playing a prominent role. And there is no greater miracle than the transformation of the human heart!
When we follow Jesus, the initiative always lies with him! It is important to remember this when it comes to miracles: we cannot produce them ‘to order’ and sadly the realm of God’s supernatural intervention can be misused for human manipulation and deceit. We need to humbly recognise that there will always be an element of mystery as to why we see some signs and not others. Many questions beginning with ‘why’ will remain. But as followers of Jesus we are already part of the greatest miracle of all – Jesus’ resurrection and our firm hope of overflowing and eternal life as we follow him.
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Rom. 8:28)