Category: Church
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Promises – Week 1
For the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Hebrews 4 v 12). What does that mean? Put most simply, it means the Bible is as relevant today as it…
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Relaunch 2020
Do any of you remember a television character who always turned up when somebody was in the middle of a job and said “You don’t want to do it like that, do it like this.”? I particularly remember the character because I knew somebody just like him. He would come around, perhaps when I had some music playing, and suddenly make a sucking…
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Travelling Light
When, in 1959, Cliff Richard (now Sir Cliff) sang one of his earliest hit records, Travelling Light, he wasn’t on the same page as Pastor Julian at COM Church, Dunstable, when Julian made this the title for his New Year message to the Church. Whereas Cliff was only taking “one comb, one toothbrush” to get…
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Christmas is Love
I have to admit, I love Christmas- there is so much to love about it! Christmas can mean different things to each of us; for me Christmas has very good memories. Even before I was a Christian, I knew there was something different about Christmas. There was always a warmth and gentleness about it.…
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Prayer with Hope
Do you wish your difficult or painful circumstances were different? Most, if not all of us, would say “yes” in a heartbeat! The Oxford Dictionary defines a wish as a “feeling or expression of a strong desire or hope for something that cannot or probably will not happen”. Feelings and desires alone will not change…
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Soft Play Cinema
Soft Play Cinema – in Review We are overwhelmed by the outcomes of our Soft Play Cinema week. Three thousand people in our community received the biggest hug from our Church family that has ever been delivered in our 34 year history. Over seven days we showed six different films to over 1200 different children.…
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On the Right Track
November 5th 2017…. We’ve now been in our Senior Pastor role for a whole year. If we rewound and were asked to write down and imagine what the year might hold for us, we don’t think we would have come anywhere close. It has definitely been a year of highs and lows. The deepest of…