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One thing is Needful

Covid has brought its own challenges and sorrows to each of us since its arrival. For us as a family, living under a different local authority and health board from many of our loved ones has been hard. Recently, we’ve been allowed to see them for a very limited number of ‘essential’ reasons. This begs…
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Jesus saves

Spiritual Discipline : Witnessing

“This has been 15 years of hard work and dedication. Dedicating my life to the sport, putting everything on hold, all my social life, things that I wanted to do with my friends, my family, my fiancée back home. Things I’ve wanted to do I’ve missed out on all for this moment, it’s all been…
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Hope horizon

The Discipline of Giving

I have chosen to call this Spiritual Discipline the ‘Discipline of Giving’ but I could have called it the ‘Discipline of Investing’ or the ‘Discipline of Stewardship.’ All that we have is given to us by God. Yes, we may have worked hard to earn our salary and to buy our possessions, but it is…
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Spiritual Disciplines 4- Service

“If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.” Mark 9:35 “Most of us know we will never be the greatest; just don’t let us be the least. Gathered at the Passover feast, the disciples were keenly aware that someone needed to wash the others’ feet. The…
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Together

Spiritual Disciplines 3- Worship

We’ve been looking lately at some of the Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian life, some of the ways “we can place ourselves in the path of God’s grace and seek Him much as Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus placed themselves in Jesus’ path and sought Him.” Like prayer and Bible study, worship is of the utmost importance…
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Holy Bible

Spiritual Disciplines 2- Scripture

Donald Whitney in his Book on the Spiritual Disciplines says: “Spiritual Disciplines are the God-given means we are to use in the Spirit-filled pursuit of Godliness. Godly people are discipled people. It has always been so.” However lest we think that spiritual growth is about our determination and resolve, Whitney goes on to remind us…
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Prayer

Onwards and Upwards! – Introducing the Spiritual Disciples – Prayer

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.” Hebrews 12:1-2 Just as athletes…
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Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory

It may come as a surprise to find that most modern translations (e.g. NIV, NLT, ESV) do not include the last line of the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew’s Gospel. Most scholars now think that it wasn’t in the original manuscript. Whether you agree with this or not we certainly ought to concur that the concluding…
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Love one another

Church Services Update

Our 10:30am Sunday services resumed on 11th April 2020 and our 7:30pm Wednesday Bible studies resumed on 31st March 2020. Both services are in a new, socially-distant format and will continue each week until further notice. As each service is limited to a maximum number of people, Wednesday services typically remain below capacity but on…
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Waiting by the waters

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one

It’s been a while since we last looked at the Lord’s Prayer together. We’ve honoured God, asked him to meet our physical/material needs and then turned, lastly, to our spiritual need in asking for forgiveness. If our last petition dealt with sins committed in the past, today’s petition looks forward to the dangers that lie…
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