Today we start a new series in church all about Elijah. Elijah was a prophet, he listened to God and told the people God’s messages. Sometimes these were not very popular messages and it could spell trouble for the prophet. In todays story Elijah delivers God’s message to King Ahab but he’s not very happy. […]
Author: Linda Galpin
I don’t believe it
I wonder how often you hear people say ‘I don’t believe it!’ I expect that very first Easter morning it was said a lot!! After all they had all witnessed Jesus dying on the cross – such pain, torture. No one could have survived that. Jesus’ body was place in the tomb and a huge […]
Easter
This Easter weekend we celebrate Jesus is alive. Hallelujah!! What a week – a bit like being on a rollercoaster. The highs of the celebration of Palm Sunday, the depths of sadness and disappointment of Good Friday and now Jesus is alive… what great news. If you want to remind yourself of all the events […]
April Messy Church
Our April Messy Church continues our ‘Meals with Jesus’ series. We have seen that Jesus welcomed anyone and everyone. He shared a table with the people noone else wanted – the bad, the sinful, the broken and needy – like Zacchaeus and the woman with the perfume. Jesus was with his friends, the disciples. They’d […]
Palm Sunday: 10th April
Palm Sunday is a special sunday where we tell the story of Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem. Crowds of people welcomed and celebrated Jesus and shouted, ‘Hosanna!’ They laid palm leaves and clothes on the path as Jesus passed by. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week and included the Last Supper Jesus had with […]
March Messy Church
March’s Messy Church explores another meal with Jesus. We meet a really unpleasant man who wasn’t liked by anyone – he was mean and nasty and even cheated people. Jesus chose to invite himself round to his house for a meal. We don’t know what Jesus and Zacheaus discussed but after the time he spent […]
Epic Explorers Following Jesus: Sunday 20th March
Join us today Epic Explorers as we discover Rocky Road and find out that following Jesus means putting him first even when it’s tough. Over the past 5 months we been exploring Adventure Island. We’ve discovered together that Jesus is God’s Son and he came to rescue us. Last month we saw that Jesus didn’t […]
Remember Me: The last supper
Remember me: This week we look at the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples often called ‘The last supper’. It was passover and as they shared the passover meal together Jesus did something new that would mean that Christians would remember Jesus’ death and resurrection every time they met together through bread and wine. […]
Remember Me: 1
Remember Me : Today starts a new series at St James for 3 weeks exploring what communion is all about. What is communion? Why do we celebrate communion? Where did it all start? Who/what are we remembering? This week we look back to Moses and the Israelites and what happened for Pharoah to ‘let the […]
Oasis: Disgust
This month the theme for our Oasis service is Disgust. The journal ‘Jesus and Emotions’ is a really good resource that families can work through together. If you would like a copy please let me know. Let’s meet DISGUST! Some questions to think about together What does Disgust usually feel like in your body? I […]