Imagine bumping into someone when you’re out and about this week and you can see pain etched on their face.
What are you gonna say? One of the distinctives of Christianity is we can do so much more than commiserate.
Our latest bible talk's now online
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It's our Lights of Love service tonight supporting everyone touched by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby.
You're beyond welcome to join us for a short time together, followed by refreshments and a chance to talk with others if you'd like to. #SANDS
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We asked for the topics people would most like to hear some Christian teaching on. We're starting with the most requested this week.
Be our guest this Sunday @ 10 as we explore a Christian take on depression, and hear God's invitation to us in the dark.
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“If God���s in charge… why can it feel like evil is winning?”
It’s a big question, whether it’s Assyria back back in Isaiah's day, or Russia, ISIS or Al Qaeda today. Isaiah 10 doesn’t dodge the hard bits, And this stuff's vital when life gets messy.
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Tech billionaires are building bunkers.
Conspiracy theories are everywhere.
'Spirituality' is on the rise.
So what does God say? Isaiah 8-9 doesn’t just highlight our anxieties but also gives the cure as God speaks powerfully into our modern fears.
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Crisis. Panic. Politics.
Isaiah 7 sounds like today.
But there’s a better way than fear and compromise.
Come hear how faith in King Jesus changes everything.
📢 Our latest bible talk “Where Will You Turn?” is online now.
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🗣: "We might quickly see how this passage connects, if you’re a family living in Gaza, or you're Charlie Kirk’s young widow. But there are no bombs landing in our gardens; no bullets flying towards our loved ones..."
Isaiah 3v1-4v1 – Where Will You Turn?
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Rev Tom: "God has given his prophet a vision of what is coming not just sometime in the future, but at the end of all days. So to be on the right side of history is to live life in line with this God."
Our latest bible talk's now online.
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We love being connected to and working so closely with Canon Popham Primary Academy.
We're also really encouraged by their recent SIAMS (Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools) inspection report.
Click the link to have a read for yourself 👇https://t.co/rjHc5NShgY
Our latest bible talk is now online if you'd like to catch up or listen again.
Exodus 20v17 – Live free: Don’t covet (The 10th Commandment)
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“If only I had _____________, I’d finally be happy.”
If you were to fill in the blank, what would you put?
For most of us, what we put in is our functional god. The person, place, or thing we think we can’t live without.
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We live in a world of words and we live in a world of lies, but God says we must not.
Our latest bible talk is now online if you'd like to catch up or listen again. Exodus 20v16 – Live free: Don’t lie (The 9th Commandment) https://t.co/725KagA0RV
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“I’ll just be 2-seconds.”
“I’ll start the diet tomorrow.”
“If you don’t sleep Santa won’t come.”
“Open wide, this won’t hurt.”
“Brexit will get the NHS £350m extra a week.”
“Iraq definitely has weapons of mass destruction.”
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
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It’s been a busy morning at church!
The metal from our old spire has been refromed into this brilliant cross than now proudly sits at the front of the building😍
What do you think?
A big hand to the legends Yates Steel for the remoulding and The Roof Doctor for the installation
Rev Tom 🗣 "One of my first professional jobs was with a company who taught me how to steal..."
(Exodus 20:15 - Do not steal)
Our latest bible talk is now online if you'd like to catch up or listen again.
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Rev Tom 🗣 "Advertisers use it to sell everything from toothpaste to cars, from pet food to perfume.
Turn on the TV, listen to the radio, open a magazine or scroll through the internet: Wherever you tun, sex is there...
And with that reality, isn’t it so good that God has something to say? Isn’t it so good that he speaks to us about the day-to-day stuff we know and experience?"
A great gift | A terrible lie | A better story
(Exodus 20:14 - Do not commit adultery)