Just as Jacob needed the heavens to open when he found himself in a rocky wilderness (Genesis 28:10-22), we certainly need God to open the heavens afresh in our lives.  He wants to do that, to bless and to give us fresh  hope.  

Genesis 28:10-22 

David Mayhew

The zeal of the Lord will accomplish his purpose - that good news will be proclaimed and all people will see God's salvation in Jesus.  

Steve Gendall 

Luke 1:57-66

God came to Mary in a startling fashion through an angel, with words of grace and love as well as promises of His real and vibrant presence, announcing that she would miraculously bear the coming Saviour of the world. He reassured her in the midst of her distress and questions, and as she surrendered to Him, something (or Someone) amazing happened in her (Luke 1v26-36).  So began her journey of wonder and expectancy.   

In the same way, He also comes to us, with words of grace, love and promise, challenging us to receive Him afresh in these days - His salvation, His call to walk with Him and His presence itself.  If we do, our eyes will be filled with wonder, and we will never be the same again!  

David Mayhew 

Luke 1:26-36

The service today is ‘waiting for the promise’ as part of the Advent theme this week of ‘watch for the light’. We will be looking at the promise given to Abraham that he would be a father, and how long he had to wait.  

Suzanne Owen 

Genesis 18:1-15 

Genesis 21:1-2 & 6

Looking at the time in Elijah’s life where he had run away from the threat to his life, and, in crisis, made a pilgrimage to the mountain of the Lord.  

Suzanne Owen 

1 Kings 19:5-7 & 8-9

Holman Hunt’s famous painting, ‘The Light of the World,’ was inspired by Jesus’ words: ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him’ (Revelation 3v20). Today we look at the context in which Jesus spoke these words when He invited a struggling church in Laodicea (modern Turkey) to put aside all lukewarmness and to passionately seek all that God would want to give them.  

David Mayhew 

Revelation 3:14-21

We are all somewhere on the road between a pigsty and a palace.  Steve considers where each of us might be on that road.    

Steve Gendall 

Luke 15:11-24

We can easily feel in these days as if the darkness is closing in, in our personal lives as well as on a national and international scale. The Lord wants to open our eyes to see where all of history is heading,  culminating in his kingdom gloriously manifest in new heavens and a new earth. But this kingdom has already broken into our world and lives, if we, like Elisha's servant in 2 Kings 6v13-17, can but see it!  

David Mayhew 

2 Kings 6:13-17

Today we celebrate one of the big 5 of Christianity, without which Christianity would not exist as the dynamic power of God poured out into the world that it is - Pentecost. The other elements of the big 5 are: Christmas, Easter, Ascension and Jesus' second coming.    

Join us and be renewed and refreshed by the living power of God who comes to us in the presence of the Holy Spirit.   

David Mayhew 

Acts 2:17-21

The Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael point us to God.  

Denis Smith 

Genesis 28:10-19 

John 1:43-51