Reading:  Hebrews 12:18-29

Message:  The Importance of Public Worship - Raish Sarin

Message: Why Church ?

Reading: Psalm 84

Raish talks about the importance of attending church and returning after the lock down.

Private time with God is important but, when we meet together, we help each other to grow

Reading: Matthew 16 21-27

Sermon by Lynne Cooper, visiting preacher

Recording included Meditation, Reading and Two-Part Sermon

Lynne discusses how grace leads to good works and challenges churches to do more in its service of the Lord and presents a vision of the exciting church that would result

Reading : Matthew 16 21-27

Includes a meditation and prayers by other contributors

In her two part sermon, Lynne talks about how grace leads to good works and challenges churches to do more in the service of God

Note: This is the full service recorded as part of Lynne's portfolio. 

An edited version that omits the songs and group prayers has been uploaded separately 

Sermon: Don't be anxious

Reading:  Matthew 6 25-34

In this sermon, Paul discusses why we worry, why it's so harmful and, from his own experience, the steps we can take to remove fear and anxiety from our lives.

He also briefly examines why there is no conflict between loving God and a healthy fear of Him, explaining why not fearing causes us not to take sin seriously in our lives.

He concludes with a reminder that, if we allow fear to have a role in our lives, we won't be able to fully enjoy God's rich blessings

Key verse: 1 Samuel 7:12

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen.  He named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far has the Lord helped us"

Main points:

1  Remember how God has helped us in the past
2  When our "monument" in life is to something else, we are in great danger
3  Jesus should be our monument, who removes the last obstacle between us and God for our eternal future

The Lord's My Shepherd

Readings:  Psalm 23 and Ezekiel 34

In his message Raish explains why we need more than a cursory knowledge of the scriptures and discusses the significance of describing God as a shepherd, which is very different from our usual wooly (excuse pun) picture.

Songs:  Thy Word is a Lamp - Amy Grant and Michael W Smith
             The Lord's My Shepherd - Stuart Townsend

Virtual Service 28 June 2020 Scott Sykes

Theme: An unexpected response

Scott continues his examination of minor characters in the Bible and looks at King David's invitation to Mephibosheth, the son of his friend Jonathan and grandson of King Saul.

Reading : 2 Samuel 9 1-13

Songs:  Love Wonderful Love
             What Grace is Mine

Paul Forsythe

Message: Faulty assumptions

Reading : Acts 11 1-18

Songs

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds - Chris Bowater
All I once held dear - Graham Kendrick
Jesus stand among us - Graham Kendrick (Communion)

In his message Paul discusses how our faulty beliefs about God prevent us performing his work and can even obstruct it.
He also discusses how we should react when we believe that God is speaking to us personally

Raish Sarin

God does not have favourites

Acts 10: 34 - 48  Peter at Cornelius's house

After his vision instructing him not to regard as wrong anything that God has declared to be right Peter has accepted the request to visit Cornelius, the Roman Centurion and preach about Jesus.

Songs: How deep the father's love for us - Stuart Townsend
            O God of burning cleansing - William Booth