The Seed

The Old Testament has over 600 laws given to the people of God. Many seem to be really obscure, and we can often be confronted by people who will selectively choose from those and make the challenge that (for example) because we wear polyester/cotton fabrics, or eat shellfish that we are disobeying God by breaking His laws, and therefore are hypocrites whose testimony should be disregarded. Are they right? We are in good company. Jesus was also attacked for ‘breaking the law’. This morning we look at one of those occasions where he does so.We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk- YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK- Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed- Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

One of the biggest barriers to faith is the love of our current life and an unwillingness to leave it behind, yet Jesus calls us to do just that and follow Him. Levi is one such person who actually DID respond to the call. He left his old life to follow Jesus. And, he threw a party!This week we look at Mark’s account of the calling of Levi.========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk (https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk) * YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK (https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK) * Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed (https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed) * Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com (https://www.theseeduk.com) =========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

As we start off the New Year, we resume our studies in Mark’s gospel. Today we look at the account of four men lowering their paralysed friend through a hole in the roof because the house was so crowded it was the only way they could get to Jesus. ========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk (https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk) * YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK (https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK) * Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed (https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed) * Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com (https://www.theseeduk.com) =========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

One question you will get asked as much as any other over the coming weeks will be “Did you make a New Year's resolution this year?” New Year’s resolutions are all about our desire to make changes in our lives for the better. However, often we can’t sustain the changes we resolve to make. Far too frequently, the resolutions we make don’t last, and many don’t even get out of January!The practice of making a New Year’s resolution goes back over 3,000 years to the ancient Babylonians. There is no real difference between December 31 and January 1. Nothing magical happens at midnight on December 31, a new day and a New Year simply starts. New Year, nevertheless, is a good time to take stock of where we are at and consider where we might improve our lives in the future.As we look into 2024, This morning’s message suggests a new type of resolution…========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk* YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK* Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed* Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

Many people around us will use the expression ‘I hope’ to describe a wish or desire for something to happen in the future. This kind of hope implies a degree of uncertainty in the outcome. As the world defines it, hope carries with it a sense of unease or even fear that what we hope for will not come to pass.BUT … This is not Christian hope.Today we consider the difference between worldly hope and Christian hope.========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk (https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk) * YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK (https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK)  * Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed (https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed)* Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com (https://www.theseeduk.com)=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK____________

The word love in English has a multitude of uses. We use the same word to express many different types of love, so we know instinctively that the way one expresses love with a spouse is, and must be, entirely different to the way it is expressed with grandchildren. Love of a particular football team or pop star is a different type of love again.Yet the same word describes them all.This week we look at the love which came down at Christmas time and how that impacts the modern world’s declaration that ‘love is love’We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk* YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK* Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed* Web site: https://www.theseeduk.comThe Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

If you try looking at people when you walk down the street. I suspect you will notice, like I have, that very rarely will you see people smile, no one appears to be happy any more. Again and again, life kicks us and many people, (even Christians) have quite literally had their joy kicked right out of them.On the run-up to Christmas, in complete contrast to any other time of the year, there is an increase in the sense that this of all the year should be a time of Joy. This comes out in so many songs and carols. ‘Joy to the World’ being the most obvious example. But what the world and what the Bible means when they talk about Joy are two different things. This week, we consider what the Bible means when it talks about joy and how we can live lives filled with it.========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.* Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk (https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk) * YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK (https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK) * Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed (https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed) * Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com (https://www.theseeduk.com) =========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

Christmas is perhaps the only time people really focus on Jesus as the prince of peace. The coming of Christ is announced as a message of peace by the angels in Luke 2:14, and Isaiah prophesies Him as the Prince of Peace. Most people nowadays think of peace as being an absence of conflict. However, our modern understanding of peace falls way short of what the Bible means when it describes Jesus as the Prince of Peace, and what Jesus means when he says he gives us His peace. This morning in the first of our Advent series, Julian unpacks this concept of peace a little.========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk- YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK- Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed- Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

Paul writes one of his most upbeat and joyful letters from Prison. Philippians, written some 11 years after the church was established in Philippi, is written from prison to encourage the believers in the face of persecution.This week we consider what insights we can glean from this small section of Paul's letter.We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk- YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK- Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed- Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK

In this morning’s message, Julian considers why, after healing a leper, Jesus tells him not to say anything but go to the priest and offer the sacrifices commanded by Moses, and what can we learn from that.========We prepare and upload content to our YouTube Channel every Sunday. We also extract the audio of the message and upload to our podcast stream.- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/theseeduk- YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theseedUK- Podcast stream: https://www.blubrry.com/the_seed- Web site: https://www.theseeduk.com=========The Seed Christian Fellowship is a small Christian Church in Somerset UK