by Beth Howard | Apr 19, 2018 | Reflections
Last week when I saw the weather forecast for this week (bright skies and sunny!), I was immediately in such a better mood. I felt joy at the prospect of moving out of a rainy, dark winter into the glorious summer. I envisioned beach trips, summer parties and lying by...
by Sam Evans | Apr 12, 2018 | General Teaching
Reading the Bible: The Interpretative Journey (Part 1) can be found here. I want you to imagine a large map, with (1) an ancient village on the left, (2) a river in the middle, (3) a bridge over the river, (4) a signpost just past the bridge and (5) a modern village...
by Sam Evans | Apr 5, 2018 | General Teaching
I don’t know about you, but sometimes reading the bible can feel really difficult. In fact, it can seem not abnormally difficult: reading a passage and instantly forgetting what it was about. Why is this? After years of thinking that ‘I should’ read it or pushing...
by Elizabeth Legendre | Mar 29, 2018 | General Teaching
Easter. Just the mention of the holiday invokes thoughts of chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and Easter egg hunts. Growing up in the southeast United States, Easter was full of traditions. My two sisters and I would get taken on a shopping trip and we would buy matching...
by Office Admin | Mar 8, 2018 | General Teaching, Teaching Series
We have just started a new sermon series called Counter Culture, with titles like consumerism, cynicism, tribalism and individualism. So many –isms sound a bit theoretical, not to mention hard to understand. Is it relevant? What does it all mean for us? Culture is not...
by Elizabeth Legendre | Feb 22, 2018 | Community, My Ministry Story
Almost every week we hear stories in the media about people with financial debts they cannot repay and the misery this causes. I recently saw a headline where a lady had to decide whether to use her last £5 to buy a bus ticket to go to work or to feed her children....
by Elizabeth Legendre | Feb 15, 2018 | General Teaching, Worship
Have you ever come to church on a Sunday and felt like you’ve not connected with God? Have you ever gathered with the congregation to sing and pray and just gone away feeling like you didn’t receive? Have you ever finished a service and just wondered: what was that...
by Elizabeth Legendre | Feb 8, 2018 | alpha, My Ministry Story
At some point in our lives, many of us realise that our time is just not going as far as we’d like: there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it all in. If you’re anything like me, you go through phases of freaking out because there’s just not enough time. You...
by Elizabeth Legendre | Jan 16, 2018 | Community, Youth
Chillzone is our Friday night youth club held at St Mark’s. From 5:30pm – 7:30pm each week we welcome young people from school years 7 to 11 from around Woodhouse and Little London. Each week we share how our weeks have been, followed by lots of sport and games, PS4,...
by Elizabeth Legendre | Nov 22, 2017 | Worship
Not everything we feel is a true reflection of reality. I love my husband, but if I’ve had a bad day and feel anger towards him, it doesn’t mean I don’t love him any longer. My anger is very real in that moment and there might be real cause for my anger, but it’s a...
