25th July 2010

JTH continued the theme on builing by talking about ordniary people being called by Jesus to build up from from ground level.

Reading
1 Cor 1:26-31
Mark 12:37

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18th July 2010

Geoff Thorington-Hassell continues the churches theme for the year of Building Outreach & Belonging. This weeks the scripture is Acts 16:11-30 and the title is Ground breaking. This looks at issues around outreach and in examining the church built from scratch at Phillipi and particularity the story of Lydia from Thyatira.

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11th July 2010

Jane spoke to Philippians 2 continuing on from the session on 2 Peter last week looking at building stone on stone. Here Paul talks about three works :
(v12) each of us working to “complete” our salvation
(v13) God is always working in you and
(v14) we are to work with and for other believers .
Lastly how all these work together to build community.

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4th July 2010

Jane spoke to 2 Peter 1:2-11 looking the patient long term nature of building Christian character into our personalities and how to avoid destructive collapse of our Christian life. Putting our faith in Jesus needed to be followed through by going further to diligently build our lives, actions and ways of thinking that are pleasing to God.

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27th June 2010

Mark O' Sullivan speaks about the work of his wife, Penny and his family in Bulgaria, helping to support and integrate disabled children in to communities in Bulgaria.

Mark and Penny are BMS workers in Bulgaria where they have worked with theie 3 children for several years.

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20th June

Chris Andre Watson from BMS continues the churches theme of Building Outreach & Believing. He speaks on the subject of the bigger picture highlighting the need to see God's vision and grand design for mission which reaches and reconciles others.

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13th June 2010

Jane continued with a short series on Building with Promise looking at what Jesus said in Matthew 16: 18 around building a gathered people (church) and that the gates of Hades will not be a barrier to what He is building. While God is working out his Promise through the generations and will complete it we still need to choose to learn faithfulness and understand our part in building the people of God.

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