Hope 150
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Hope 150

Our church was started 150 years ago! The first service was held on Saturday 16th January 1875, at 3.15pm in the afternoon. So next year is our 150th birthday and we have some special anniversary celebrations that are planned. As well as these events we are also planning an anniversary booklet which will be distributed...

De-cluttering the Nativity
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De-cluttering the Nativity

There’s an awful lot of clutter around the Christmas story, a lot of it generated over the years by the church, and most of it is hard to believe! Take some of the carols: In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, Snow had fallen, snow...

GUIDANCE and the voice of God – Philip D. Jensen and Tony Payne
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GUIDANCE and the voice of God – Philip D. Jensen and Tony Payne

I can be a very indecisive person. I worry that I am troubling others when asking for advice and this is  exactly the case when asking God for help . I wonder if He really cares about my life and all the decisions I have to make. Should I pray about this or that, really?...

Simon’s Scrawl
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Simon’s Scrawl

The topic of this magazine is how the good news of Jesus Christ engages with different cultures. In the past Christian missionaries, attempting to share the gospel, sometimes mistakenly imposed Western culture upon a local population. But the gospel can and should adapt to different cultures, and that’s been shown by the way in which...