Belonging
Today’s all-age service included activities, stories and feedback from our Holiday Bible Club. There is no podcast recording of a sermon but you can watch a recording of the livestream from the service on YouTube.
Psalm 42 – Hope in place of despair
Bible reading: Psalm 42 For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day […]
Psalm 77 – Wrestling with God
by Joe Porter
Bible reading: Psalm 77 (NIVUK) For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. 1 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. 2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted. 3 I remembered […]
Psalm 51 – A psalm of repentance
by Chris Dobson
Bible reading: Psalm 51 (NIVUK) For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse […]
Humble shepherds
by Nigel Stowe
Bible reading: 1 Peter 5:1-11 (NIVUK) To the elders and the flock 5 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them – not because you […]
Suffering for doing good
Bible readings: 1 Peter 3:13-4:6 (NIVUK) 13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.” 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give […]
Relationships marked by love
by Anita Dobson
Bible readings 1 Peter 3:1-12 (NIVUK) 3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behaviour of their wives, 2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should […]
A revolutionary people
Bible reading: 1 Peter 2:11-25 (NIVUK) Living godly lives in a pagan society 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and […]
A people belonging to God
by Chris Dobson
Bible reading: 1 Peter 1:22-2:10 (NIVUK) 22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, […]
Ben & Katy Ray share from Tanzania
Bible reading: Psalm 139:1-18 (NIVUK) For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before […]