Riverside Church - Whitstable

In part five of the signs of life series Tariq explains how we can better understand the Bible.

In part four of the signs of life series Tariq explains that scripture is to encourage Christians to believe that the Bible has power to change individuals and to change nations.

Simon looks at how worship involves choice, cost and is completed in all of life.

In this week’s sermon our guest speaker Gavin Calver (Director for Mission at the Evangelical Alliance) reads from Acts ch5:v12-25 and talks about sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

In part two of the Signs Of Life series Chris explains that finding the right rhythm of prayer takes time and intentionality but prayer is not about rules it is about relationship. Keeping guilty feelings from stopping us praying means we have to regularly include confession in our prayer life. The psalms have some deep prayers of confession and repentance – psalm 51 is one the most well-known.

Simon introduces our new series Signs of Life and looks at giving our prayer life a “makeover”.

In part six of the Encountering Jesus series, Simon talks about the example Jesus set of serving others by washing their feet. Before that Sam tells of how by listening to God and then a chance encounter with a stranger brought about a fantastic change in the life of that stranger.

In part Five of the Encountering Jesus series Chris explains the death and miraculous resurrection of Lazarus.

In part Four of the Encountering Jesus series Tariq explains that Healing of longstanding emotional or physical problems means answering Jesus’ question “do you want to be healed”.

In part three of the Encountering Jesus series Tariq reminds us that story of the Bible is God’s story being worked out through millions of encounters with men and women and their stories as part of God’s purposes.