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Examining our Vision
Read more: Examining our VisionClear Direction During Christmas Holidays many families decide to out to ‘walk-off lunch’. It’s a great idea! But it’s also helpful to have an idea of where you might go and how you will get there. When sight-seeing it’s amazing how it is possible to ‘bump into’ things to see. But if you have a…
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Reading the Bible the New Year
Read more: Reading the Bible the New YearWith all the build up to Christmas, have you thought about the New Year yet? Specifically, have you thought about how will you be reading your Bible regularly next year? It can be difficult to work out the best plan for reading your Bible. But more than that, it can be difficult to find time…
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Listening to Jethro
Read more: Listening to JethroWe are coming up towards Christmas. I wonder if you’ve started planning for Christmas yet? Maybe the mere thought of it fills you with dread! All those things to do; All the family coming to stay; All the visits to other family to get in; All the presents to buy, and wrap, and hide, and…
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Ringing out for Jesus
Read more: Ringing out for JesusWhen I moved to Somerset I might have had dreams of moving from a city to the country, blissful country views from our new house, and the peace and quiet of the countryside. Little did I know that the manse there would be on a busy main road looking out onto a junction to a…
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Liberation-Shaped Mission
Read more: Liberation-Shaped MissionAs part of our new summer series Little People, Big God, we are embarking upon a journey through the book of Exodus, taking 12 sermons to cover the first 20 chapters. Exodus is perhaps a more contentious book in Christian theology than we may realise. To see why, let’s remind ourselves of the process of…
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Growing & Changing Together
Read more: Growing & Changing TogetherGrowth in a church – both spiritual and numerical – always involves change. In any church, excepting the tiny minority who simply do not want to grow, there may still be something in all of us that says ‘I want the church to grow … but not to change’. Yet, growth is change. There are…
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Living In The Light: Money, Sex and Power
Read more: Living In The Light: Money, Sex and PowerMoney, sex and power. Weapons for good or for bad? Far from seeing these as an unholy trinity of temptation and vice, God in fact created all three to be used for his great aims in human history. Using Not Abusing We hope to spend January and February in our morning services exploring how…
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Church Governance Matters !
Read more: Church Governance Matters !As the US election approaches, I am reminded of a single week in November 2012 when 126 million Americans voted for their President, 1.3 billion Chinese were informed about their new politburo leaders and 60 million Coptic Orthodox believers had the identity of their new Pope revealed when a blindfolded boy picked his name from…
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Growing Numbers, Growing Disciples
Read more: Growing Numbers, Growing DisciplesWe often hear statistics about declining numbers in the UK church, yet many local churches are bucking the trend. Why do some churches grow and others don’t? Is this a question of theology and God’s sovereign choice, or of geography and population changes, or are there tangible things a church can do to grow numerically?…
