Reaching out with our minds to witness. Jane spoke to Luke 24:36-49 and Acts 1:1-3. Jesus wants to open our minds to understand the plan of God, how he accomplished it, and where we fit into it.
Sunday, 29 May 2011
24th April 2011
Jane spoke to 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 on Easter Sunday. The talk looks at the Christian understanding of the resurrection.
Monday, 18 April 2011
10th April 2011
In these two weeks before Easter Sunday Jane begins with Matt 20:17-19 in considering just what it cost for God, through the teachings on sacrifice, to reach out in love and grace to the world through his Son – Jesus the Christ.
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3rd April 2011
Mike Houston, from Bethnal Green Mission Church, speaks about the complications of giving to “ the other” through the filter of Luke 10:25-29 , Mark 25:25-40 and Luke 7:36-43 in dealing with the accompanying “ stranger anxiety” . In being more aware of misunderstandings that can rise from “ the loaded cargo “ of giving.
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
27th March 2011
Becca Suknenko continues in the reaching out series looking to the community around us and then on to the world from Phil :1-4. We do this through sharing the mind of Christ, which we area asked try to do as disciples of Jesus, thus modelling Christ to the world with God's help
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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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Saturday, 12 March 2011
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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