to know, grow and show the love of God
For our Lent Bible Studies this year we will be following a fascinating approach to looking at Scripture.
This will be based on work done by Anna Carter Florence, in her book ‘Rehearsing Scripture’, which really encourages us to encounter and experience the Bible passages together.
We’ll be meeting throughout Lent at Christ Church Hall on Thursday afternoons from 2pm and Monday evenings at 150 Walmersley Road from 7.30pm.
God uses that amazing visual aid. He says to Abram “Look up at the sky and count the stars – if indeed you can count them. So shall your offspring be”.
Abram had said look at me…
God said look up, look out, look beyond. I’m going to wildly exceed your expectations.
Our next Sunday@Seven service will be on March 31st, meeting together in the Barritt room in St John’s Hall.
The theme this time is: ‘Approaching Easter’ and we will be looking at some of the events leading up to Easter.
Of course the technical term for this period is Lent. As someone once said “Lent is from the Latin word meaning giving stuff up and not banging on about it!”
Here’s our March 2019 magazine.
The hard copy version is available in both our churches, St John and St Mark’s Bury and Christ Church Walmersley.
If you want to come and pick one up then we’d love to see you!
It includes news and views as well as prayers, reflections and what’s on. There’s a special piece on John Wesley and an advert at the end for our Lent Bible Studies
Here are the Bible readings that we will be using in church during March.
We’re in the run-up to Easter and there are some wonderful, familiar passages to rediscover.
So if you can’t be with us or if you want to read the passages in advance, then here you go.
Many people live on their own and are looking for some company during the day. If there’s food involved then so much the better!
So, we asked the ladies and gents that lunch at Christ Church for some recommendations of where to go at lunchtime…