With the building work well underway for the extension and renovation to the Church building Clover, Andy and Chris join the podcast to give us an update on how the project is going. Chris shares the situation with the project finances and Andy gives an update about progress on the works. In this week of prayer please do thank God for the many ways he has provided already for this project. Please pray that God would choose to bless this project. There is a video showing the work in progress that can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxGr2JWAI14

Lexi Battle joins the podcast to talk about the Real Change course with Alan Barnett who did the course recently.

Real Change is a six-session small group bible study that gives us an opportunity to reflect on one particular area of our lives and then to learn more about how God changes us to become more like Jesus. (For more details see https://www.biblicalcounselling.org.uk/realchange/). 

We are looking to run this course again next half term via Zoom, starting Monday 2nd November in the evening. If you would be interested in taking part, please email [email protected]

Ahead of our morning sermon series starting this weekend in 2 Corinthians Paul introduces us to the book: What was the city of Corinth like? How did the church there begin? What was the church there like? What about the backwards and forwards letters between Paul and the church in Corinth? Why should we be excited about this sermon series? Paul takes us through these questions and more as well as encouraging us to get stuck into 2 Corinthians for ourselves.

In the next of our podcasts thinking through some big questions Paul tackles the issue of how we understand the Old testament law as believers today. How did it work for Old testament believers, how Jesus treated the law and how we apply it to ourselves as believers in the new covenant?

Starting in September, We will be working our way through the book of Proverbs in our evening services at Widcombe baptist Church. In this podcast Paul gives us an introduction to the book, considering how we understand the uniqueness of Proverbs and how we might read it for ourselves.  

Paul returns to the Podcast to consider the whole issue of the cannon: Have we got the right books in our Bibles? What about the other books and letters that were written? How did the cannon of the Old and New Testaments become accepted?

Alan Young joins the podcast to speak to us about the upcoming Creation Care Sunday. Alan speaks about his experience of becoming increasingly aware of the need for creation care, of how creation care fits into our discipleship as Christians and of the plans for our Creation Care Sunday "Is God's world single use?" During the episode Alan mentions a couple of video resources, links below:

Creation Care – insights and challenges
https://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-global-classroom/creation-care-episode

Peter Harris reflects on life since the car crash in which his wife and two friends died
https://vimeo.com/433621210

Ross and Allayne introduce our new venture, the Covid Blues cafe. The cafe is an opportunity for people from our community to drop in and speak about their experiences during the pandemic and life more generally. Ross and Allayne explain what the cafe will be like, how it came about, how you can be involved, and how to be praying for this ministry.

In this week's podcast we continue our series answering some of the questions we've had sent in, someone asks: I’m not a big reader, Christianity is really big on reading. Reading the Bible, reading loads of other books? Can you help? Can you suggest anything? Paul joins the podcast (recorded earlier in August) to answer some of these questions.

Paul continues in our summer series of podcasts on big questions, this week dealing with fasting. What is fasting? What does the bible teach us? Why is fasting perhaps less popular in 21st century Britain than it appears in the Bible? How should we go about fasting? If you've thought about fasting and found it a strange thing, or if you've never really thought about it, Paul's helpful analysis helps us understand Biblical fasting.