Join us in a celebration of our journey of faith on 30th September from 10.30 am at a joint service at Christ Church.
We’ll also be saying goodbye to Gill Barnett as she packs her bags and takes up her new post in Rochdale.
Category: Nurture
Fruit and veg of the Spirit?
For Paul, an ideal community shows love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. He called these qualities the ‘fruit of the Spirit’.
But is that it? Did Paul mean that as an exclusive list – or are there more qualities that he missed off? Some that didn’t make the final cut? And anyway, why call them fruit and not vegetables?
And who cares anyway?
Open Group in Autumn
As the name of the group suggests the evening is open to all. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month. It starts at 7.30pm and normally lasts just over an hour with a brew and a chat at the end.
One of the sessions is a Craft Night, hence the photo above. But most evenings are listening to speakers, either visitors or people from our own congregation.
If you’ve not been before, go on, give it a try!
Then sings my soul
Our next Sunday@Seven service will be on September 30th. The theme is ‘Then sings my soul’.
This is our (slightly delayed) chance to sing some of your favourite hymns, songs and choruses. Nigel already has a very full list but please let him know in advance of any special requests.
This time we’ll be in The Barritt Room at St John with St Mark. And yes, surprisingly, it starts at 7pm.
Immortality and Eternal Life
Immortality & eternal life might seem to mean the same thing, but they don’t – even tho’ they both describe something that won’t ever end. What matters is to look at the start of what they describe rather than the end. An immortal person – Elvis Presley, Winston Churchill, Cilla Black – didn’t always exist; they had a beginning. At the end of their life they died, but they live on – are immortal – in the hearts and minds of those who love & remember them.
But an eternal person always existed – there never was a time when God didn’t exist, there never will be a time when God won’t exist. God is the eternal I am.
September Magazine
Creation Season runs from September 1st, the start of the Orthodox year, through to St Francis day on October 4th.
Churches and congregations are called to pay special attention to the responsibility of humanity for the Earth and for all that lives upon it.
Its start and end dates reflect that it is a shared idea between Western and Eastern Christianity.