to know, grow and show the love of God
Here are the opening verses of Genesis from The Message:
‘First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared’.
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
The Lord will guide… but often he’ll do that through you and me. We’re the ones who act as signposts for others.
Our next Sunday@Seven service will be on Sunday 23rd February 2020 in the Barritt Room at St John with St Mark, Bury.
The theme this time is ‘Be transformed’ which is taken from Romans chapter 12.
We are the inheritors of the salvation Simeon proclaimed. We are carrying hopes and dreams of a time when God’s kingdom will fully come and God’s will be fully done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Maybe also we, like those two old people, need the gift of perseverance, to wait in faith and hope on God. Certainly like them we need to have great expectations that God will work out God’s purposes as year succeeds to year.
Here’s our February 2020 magazine. There’s news and views plus articles on Lent. This year Lent starts on 26 February.
There are also pieces on the Lite lunch and the Pantomime.
Plus this letter from our Authorised Lay Minister Nigel Silvester…
Here are the February 2020 Bible readings which we’ll be using in church as the season of Epiphany moves into Lent.
This month we leap from the Presentation in the Temple to the Transfiguration, encountering soap, salt and bushels along the way… all in a few weeks.