Most of us live with two nagging questions that keep coming back.
‘How do we know what we should be doing?’
‘I don’t think I fit in here, am I good enough?’
Acts 8 gives us a glimpse of the answers to both of these questions.
This week’s story from Acts 8 shows us the lengths that God goes to to show his love to outsiders and the willingness of people to deliver that message.
Here are some songs that explore the themes in the passage…
This week we have reflections from Neil, our latest news, some useful links/resources and an interview with Sunita.
Sunita is a student nurse who is passionate about Jesus. Watch her talk about her faith, about coming to the country when she was a teenager and what brings her joy.
The action has all been in Jerusalem up to now but with the persecution, the gospel travels to the places where people had thought things could never change.
Samaria was an ongoing problem to the Jews – history and culture meant that they could never imagine that things could ever be any different.
Yet change happens because of the bravery of people and the power of the Spirit.
How might this lead us to see our own situations and our city differently?
We have reached chapter 8 in the whirlwind story of Acts and, accelerated by the death of the first Christian martyr, Stephen, the message of Jesus as the risen Lord of all has started to break new ground.
Often life can be like that can’t it? Unexpected and painful situations can often be our greatest means of growth.…
This episode of our podcast series led by the young people in our church features Lauren, Jay and Emily sharing their hopes, struggles and prayers, along with their favourite worship songs.
This week we have reflections from Neil, our latest news, some useful links/resources and an interview with Fallon.
Listen to her explain why she is known by two names, what life was like when she arrived in the UK from the Congo at the age of 7 and why she’s marched as part of the Black Lives Matter protests.
The religious folks resisted what was happening, and charge Stephen with going against the temple and the law. Stephen re-tells their own history to them, showing that God has always operated outside of the temple, Jerusalem and Israel. God was with his people, and at work, in all the difficult places.
God is in the business of doing new things. We are on a journey with him. In difficult times, times of change, times of uncertainty, we follow Jesus.
Sometimes in order to pick up new things, we have to lay other things down.
Here are the songs I’ve picked to reflect some of the themes of this week’s sermon looking at the death of Stephen in Acts. I hope you find them helpful.
Our latest weekly communication.
This week a reflective piece from Neil, our latest news and an interview with Jill talking about prophecy, how she feels God speaking to her, and how that has made a difference in her own life.
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