Posted in Calendar, Mid-week, Prayer, Study on January 9th, 2008
About a month ago I read Philip Yancy’s book ‘The Jesus I never knew’ and this has conveniently provided a basis for the series. As we continue this series, I invite you to join us on selected Tuesday nights to “meet Jesus” afresh.
DATES AND TOPICS:
Tuesday 1st Jan 08: No meeting
Tuesday 8th Jan 08: No meeting
Tuesday 15th Jan 08: Message— a sermon
of offence
Tuesday 22nd Jan 08: Mission—a
revolution of grace
Tuesday 29th Jan 08: Miracles – Snapshots
of the supernatural
Tuesday 5th February 08: Death—the final week
Tuesday 12th February 08: A Break in the
series—for prayer
Tuesday 19th February 08: A Break in the
series—for prayer
Tuesday 26th February 08: Resurrection –
a morning beyond belief
Tuesday 4th March 08: Ascension—a
blank blue sky
Tuesday 11th March 08: A Break in the
series—for prayer
Tuesday 18th March 08: Kingdom—wheat among the weeds
Tuesday 25th March 08: Jesus— the
difference He makes
Tuesday 1st April – No Meeting
Tuesday 8th April – continuation of the final topic from the Philip Yancey series – ‘Jesus – the Difference He Makes’.
Posted in Calendar, Mid-week, Prayer, Study on October 15th, 2007
At the end of 2006 I began a series of expository sermons based on the gospel of Mark. Naively, I thought the project would take about 16 sermons—there are after all only 16 chapters in a book that takes a little over an hour to read. As I am preparing this prayer meeting series we have had 15 sermons and are only up to Mark 4.
There was something else I was wrong about. I did not expect that the Jesus I was about to meet in Mark would differ in any way from the Jesus I already knew. I was very wrong. I have discovered a Jesus more radical than the Jesus I have known.
I, like probably most church people who make up what is known as the church ‘establishment’, have created a scripturally selected Jesus who is safe—meek, mild, and comfortable with our lifestyles, prejudices, social mores, opinions, and priorities. In effect He conforms to me not the other way round.
What have I found in Mark’s gospel? A dangerous Jesus. One who insults respectable clergymen; attends the kind of parties that brand him a gluttonous winebibber; a pal of people that Church boards would discuss as inappropriate companionship; shows no deference for position or wealth; calls monuments to the faith of old, hypocrisy; and slams a number of sacrosanct traditions—to say nothing of His values and His passion for people that makes us look petty and mean. He is so radical that we must either love Him or kill him. He demands no less. And to argue that this Jesus isn’t what Mark presents is to demand that He conform to the Jesus I know.
About a month ago I read Philip Yancy’s book ‘The Jesus I never knew’ and this has conveniently provided a basis for the series.
I invite you to join us on selected Tuesday nights to “meet Jesus” afresh.
Llewellyn Edwards
Pastor
DATES & TOPICS:
Tuesday 16th Oct 07: The Jesus I thought I knew.
Tuesday 23rd Oct 07: Birth-the visited planet
Tuesday 30th Oct 07: Background-Jewish roots and soils
Tuesday 6th Nov 07: A break in the series—for prayer
Tuesday 13th Nov 07: A break in the series—the Forgiveness Project
Tuesday 20th Nov 07: No meeting due to the Forgiveness Project exhibition
Tuesday 27th Nov 07: Temptation – Showdown in the Desert
Tuesday 4th Dec 07: A Break in the series—for prayer
Tuesday 11 Dec 07: What would I have noticed
Tuesday 18th Dec 07: Beatitudes – Lucky are the Unlucky
Tuesday 25thDec 07: No meeting
Posted in Mid-week, Study on July 11th, 2007
Closed for the summer, will restart sometime in September ~ watch this space.
Posted in Calendar, Mid-week, Worship on April 5th, 2007
Our Tuesday evening meetings begin with a drink and biscuit followed by an open discussion of a passage of Scripture and ends with a time of prayer and reflection – all are welcome to this oasis in the week.
Posted in Calendar, Mid-week, Worship on April 5th, 2007
Our Tuesday evening meetings begin with a drink and biscuit followed by an open discussion of a passage of Scripture and ends with a time of prayer and reflection – all are welcome to this oasis in the week.
Posted in Calendar, Mid-week, Worship on April 5th, 2007
Our Tuesday evening meetings begin with a drink and biscuit followed by an open discussion of a passage of Scripture and ends with a time of prayer and reflection – all welcome to this oasis in the week.
Scripture passage – 2 Peter 1:16-21