Tag Archive for: joy

210523 Pentecost Celebration

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It’s PENTECOST SUNDAY! A service for all ages as we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit together. With special guests Gemma Hunt (CBeebies and Alpha), Pete and Sammy Greig (The Prayer Course, The Wellbeing Journey), and many members of our own community – reading, praying, singing and leading. Christoph and Edda are starting in a very windy shopping parade in Denham Green!

This service has been pre-recorded – no live chat or Church Coffee Online today. Both will be back next week.
Find all the links below.

Pentecost Activity Sheet with the Cheeky Pandas…

Take our survey to help us shape the next season…

Sign up for our APCM on Zoom (this link will not work after 10.30am on Sunday 23 May)…

Sunday Worship 25 October: Bible Sunday

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Today is Bible Sunday and we will reflect on how the Bible can speak to us at this particular time. Find all the links below.

Church Coffee Online at 11.15am…

Open the Book Story: The Big Party…

Activity Sheet for Children and Families…

Andrew Ollerton’s book “The Bible – A Story That Makes Sense of Life”…

All about Remembrance Sunday…

4 October: Harvest Thanksgiving Family Service

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Join us for a jam- (and fruit, vegetable, flower) -packed service, live from the Rectory. We say thank you to God, discover the healthy habit of generosity, hear from a farmer, introduce “Give and Share” and sing a harvest song led by our choir. And that’s not all! Find all the links below.

Join us for Church Coffee Online on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 836 9097 1697
Passcode: Coffee

 

Watch the latest Rector’s Update…

 

Watch the Lovely Jubbly song here…

 

Activity Sheet for children and families…

Download the morning prayer to God’s Holy Spirit…

 

Learn more about Give and Share…

Real Advent Calendar…

 

Find out more about Ian Jennings’ online sessions on bereavement…

 

Watch “Freely” by Engage Worship…

Audio Service 3 May: Joy after Sorrow

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This talk is based on John 16.16-22. The reading is included in the service.

Preacher: Ian Jennings

May the God of Hope fill you!

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A Blessing from Romans 15:13 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

A thought from Lectio365 Prayer App (highly recommended!): 

To know God is to know hope. His will for us, according to the apostle Paul, is fullness of joy, fullness of peace and so much hope that it overflows from our lives into everyone we meet. They walk away from spending time with us feeling brighter, more confident, less worried. How on earth is this possible, especially right now when the world is so bleak and our own personal circumstances are so incredibly difficult? Well, it’s not about positive-thinking. The apostle Paul says that we receive peace and joy by trusting God, and we receive hope by being filled with the power of his Holy Spirit.

Of course I am not immune to all the despair, the heartbreak and the real problems of the world. I often feel hopeless, but God does not. And so I take a little time now asking him to fill me afresh, that I might ‘overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.’

Find out more about Lectio365…

Sermon: A Cheerful Heart

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18 August 2019, 10.30am, Ian Jennings

(The beginning of this sermon wasn’t recorded and is therefore missing – we’re sorry.)

This sermon is based on the following Proverbs:

“A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. … a cheerful heart has a continual feast.” Proverbs 15.13, 15b

The following Bible passages are referred to:
Acts 2.42-47
John 16.17-24