Newcomers Lunch
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The eating church finally got to eat together today! We had a lovely newcomers lunch this afternoon for folks new to the church and as ever lots of nations were represented.
Will you fast tomorrow? Weds 2nd March
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Many church groups are joining Pope Francis’ call for a day of prayer and fasting tomorrow 2nd March. Will you fast and pray tomorrow? We’ll join together on Zoom to worship and pray on Thursday too. In the link below, Liam Thatcher gives us three very helpful Biblical reasons to fast and pray for Ukraine […]
Moy has released a worship album!
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This morning Moy has released an EP of worship songs on digital music platforms and it is great. A mixture of Nigerian/English songs he has written. Beautiful! Well done Moy. Use this link to listen on your favourite music app Or head straight over to Spotify
Amazed by Jesus #10
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 20 secs | 0 Comments
The last “amazed” of Mark’s gospel is rather surprisingly not great teaching or great miracles, but silence. In Mark 15 Pilate is amazed, because Jesus keeps his mouth firmly shut as accusations fly. Pontius Pilate was a nasty piece of work.A harsh man, blasphemous and brutal – sacked a few years later for it and […]
Amazed by Jesus #9
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 13 secs | 0 Comments
Mark 12:13-17 I remember the poll tax riots in the UK in 1990. The poll tax was hugely unpopular and a mass demonstration turned ugly and then into a riot on Trafalgar Square. In Jesus’ time the poll tax was a per person tax levied on citizens of occupied territories and was just unpopular. The […]
Amazed by Jesus #8
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
Mark 11:12-25 Last time we were in Italy walking in the foot hills of the Amalfi coast, I picked some figs and ate them as we walked. Delicious! On previous visits to the old family farm in Tuscany, the fig tree often disappointed as we used to go before the fig season had started. I […]
February 2022 Book list
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 15 secs | 0 Comments
Recently David Taylor and I went to an online seminar on the book of Job (the seminar series is called Dusty pages – helping preachers engage with the parts of the Bible that are hard) From that seminar, we are going to do a “Going deeper” session on the book of Job very soon. Suffering […]
Pray for Europe
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As a family of churches we are aiming to plant 20 churches in the 50 European continent nations by 2050. On Friday 4th March 1900GMT (2000CET) we will be hearing from some of them and praying and prophecying over them. It will be a great opportunity to make an impact with the “prayers of many”. […]
Growing Seed
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 45 secs | 0 Comments
There’s only one parable that is unique to Mark’s gospel and it’s the parable of the growing seed in Mark4 :26-29. In it Mark uses the Greek word automate (where we get automatic) to tells is that all by itself the soil produces corn. We don’t need to feel any pressure about whether people will […]