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For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age (Titus 2:11-12 NIV)
What are you passionate about? At the moment, it’s quite easy to see where people’s passions lie. There are flags out, and the news is full of a potential England footballing victory. What about life as a Christian? Is that what we are passionate about? What might that look like?
This Sunday, we’re continuing our short series looking at Experiencing God. This week, we’re going to be considering how we experience passion for living as a Christian.
I hope you’ll be able to join us either in person, or online, as we look together at God’s grace and mercy towards, and how that helps us to live as passionate Christians.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: rejoice! (Philippians 4:4 NIV)
It feels like joy has been in short supply over the last year or so. So many things that we are used to doing and events that we have planned for have been cancelled, postponed or changed. When St Paul tells us to rejoice always, can he really mean it?
This Sunday, we’re continuing our short series looking at Experiencing God. This week, we’re going to be considering how we experience joy: how can we know joy when life can be so hard?
I hope you’ll be able to join us either in person, or online, as we look together at God’s peaceful, and how our experience of it can help us to be at peace in an anxious and agitated world.
Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. (Mark 4:39 NIV)
This Sunday, we’re continuing our short series looking at Experiencing God. This week, we’re going to be considering how we experience peace. Peace and calm are things I suspect we all want, but might not always find. Jesus promises that only he can give us perfect peace.
I hope you’ll be able to join us either in person, or online, as we look together at God's peaceful, and how our experience of it can help us to be at peace in an anxious and agitated world.
‘Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven – as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.’ (Luke 7:47 NIV)
This Sunday, we’re continuing our short series looking at Experiencing God. This week, we’re going to be considering how we experience love. As we read the encounter between Jesus and the sinful woman, we will see how God’s goodness to us should lead us to love God more, and to love one another more.
I hope you’ll be able to join us either in person, or online, as we look together as God’s graciousness to us, and how that helps us to love.
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. (Colossians 2:6-7 NIV)
This Sunday, we’re starting a short series looking at Experiencing God. We’re starting with how we experience Christ. As we look at part of Paul’s letter to the Colossians together, we’ll see that we already have all we need to experience Christ. Not just that, but that, in Christ, we experience the fullness of God. Because of that, we can live rich and full lives, overflowing with thankfulness.
I hope you’ll be able to join us either in person, or online, as we look together at how we can be certain of experience God, and living joyful and thankful lives.