Our guest speaker today is Ben Davies, who was our Senior Pastor for 43 years before retiring to Pembrokeshire. After various technical problems due to dealing with Ben joining the meeting via a Zoom call, he reads a quotation and asks "Who Are You?". Then he proceeds to read from 1 Peter 2 v9-10 and tell us who God says that we are.

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Our guest speaker this week is Michael Bentley. He continues our Lessons From Luke series by looking at chapter 11 v37-54 where Jesus pronounces woes on the Pharisees and Experts in the Law for their behaviour with all of their rules and regulations which ignore the clear teaching of God's word. Michael asks how we would respond if Jesus looked at us and asked about how we behave. He goes on to talk about the dangers of pride, thinking that we are more important than others then encourages us to be humble and consider everyone as important.

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Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series looking at the story of Zacchaeus in chapter 19 v1-10. She asks if Zaccaeus was going to stay in the tree just looking for Jesus or was he going to come down as requested and become all that Jesus intended him to be. Then she asks the same question of us - what God is calling us to and whether we are going to allow Him to fulfil His purpose in our lives.

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Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series by looking at chapter 10 v38-42 where Jesus was at the house of Martha & Mary. The 2 sisters were very different in their approach to Jesus. Martha was very practical, opened her home to Jesus and wanted to prepare everything for Him, but got disillusioned when her sister didn't help her. Mary just wanted to sit at Jesus's feet and learn from Him. Esther looks at both sister's approach and how Jesus responds to them, then she asks what we can learn from each of them and what are our priorities.  

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Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series talking from Chapter 21 v1-4 about a poor widow who brought everything she had to God. Esther points out 3 things that Jesus saw in her offering and looks at how we can relate these things to our lives today.

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Our guest speaker today is Michael Bentley. He continues our "Lessons From Luke" series looking at Chapter 18 v35 to Chapter 19 v10 where Jesus meets 2 men on His way to and through Jericho. Firstly a blind man who Jesus heals completely. Then Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who is completely transformed by his meeting with Jesus. Finally he challenges each of us to make sure that we have had an encounter with Jesus before it's too late.

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Today's meeting was a more informal meeting where attendees had an opportunity to share some stories of what God was doing in their lives. In order to keep these within the group it has been decided not to include them in the podcast. Therefore this recording contains only the worship at the beginning of the meeting, a worship video plus Esther's comments throughout.

Our guest speaker today is Simon Benham, our senior pastor. He continues our "Lessons From Luke" series looking at chapter 8 verses 22-25 where Jesus calms the storm on the Sea of Galilee declaring that He has power over the weather; and subsequently He goes on to show in other ways as well that he is God and has the power to do miracles. Then Simon talks about storms in our lives and he encourages us, if we are in one now, to admit it to ourselves and to God; to ask Jesus to be in the storm with us and to have the confidence to know that He will see us through it.

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Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series looking at the story in chapter 8 v40-56 of the woman with the issue of blood who touched Jesus' robe and was instantly healed when he was on the way to heal Jairus' daughter. Esther asks why she was healed simply by touching Jesus and suggest 3 reasons - her desperation, her determination and her faith.

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Esther continues our "Lessons From Luke" series by looking at a story in chapter 7 v36-50 of a sinful woman who wept at Jesus' feet & anointed them with perfume, a Pharisee who thought that he was good, and Jesus's response to both of them. She ends by bringing 2 applications from the story for us.

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