20th March 2011

Phil Wharbiton from E1 community Church, part of the Urban Expression Network, spoke from Luke 9:51 to 56 on the refusal of the Samaritan village to receive Jesus and moving onto the parable of the “ Good Samaritan “in 10:25 ff as a fresh look at a familiar story.

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6th March 2011

Geoff spoke to the story of Hosea in “ One step beyond.“ This is part of the “ reaching out” series. The talk looks at Hos 3;1-3 and how the disastrous relationship of Hosea and his wayward wife Gomer became a symbol of God's love that reaches beyond the waiting of the prodigal son to return to a painful searching out and finding told in the story of the prodigal wife.

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27th February 2011

Becca considers praying with honesty and so praying with power. The importance of both knowing ourselves and the grace of God. The reading is from Mark 9:14-29 especially v22-29.

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20th February 2011

Colossians 4:2-6 Reaching Out in prayer for an Open door of Opportunity. Today Jane considers Paul's request to the Colossians that they pray for him to have more opportunities to proclaim the mystery of Christ. He also encourages them to take the most of the opportunities they have when speaking with unbelievers ( His preaching has already meant he is under house arrest)

Unfortunately, due to a technical difficulty, the pod cast is currently unavailable.


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13th February 2011

Jane spoke to John 15 “Praying for fruitfulness.” Jesus tells if we want to be fruitful we need to obey his teachings and ask in His name.

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6th February 2011

Jane continued in the “reaching out in prayer” series by looking at particularly the Father's attitude in the parable Jesus told of the “ prodigal son “ in Luke 5:11-32. Itself being the third of a series of three parables in response to the criticism levelled at Jesus in Luke 15:2

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30th January 2011

JTH continued to speak about reaching out through prayer. Looking in detail at the Lords prayer and how it can be unfolded in many different ways to help us understand the power of prayer.

The reading was taken from Matthew 6:5-16 and v33.


Reading from Matthew 6:5-15 & v33

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