The Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13 is perhaps the most well-known and beloved prayer in the history of the Church.

It is the example given by Jesus to his disciples and has been used as a model prayer for Jesus followers all across the world ever since.

This prayer does not have special properties, and is not a magic formula. Nor does it guarantee we will receive everything we ask for when we pray. However, it is a guide to how to pray in a way that is both meaningful and effective.

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Sundays15th July to 17th September

CREATION - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

 The first readers and hearers of the story of creation, found in the early chapters of Genesis, had little sense of the size, nature, and scope of the world nor the task the Creator gave them in stewarding it. Over the centuries that followed, human knowledge grew and successive generations reimagined life in the light of their expanding knowledge.

For example, when people could not travel freely, knowledge was limited to, and dependent upon, the place where they lived and visitors they received. Knowledge grew when explorers returned with fascinating tales of distant lands, peoples and creatures. Those who wrote and compiled the Old Testament had a horizon limited to the Middle East. By the time of the New Testament writers, it had expanded to the Roman Empire.

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Thursday 8th June to Sunday 25th June

It is time for our third Luminous Festival!

Luminous means, emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light and the festival aims to bring light into the darkness of our cultural moment.

Make a plan to participate in at least one of the many events lined up.

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Luke 6:46-47 (NIV) Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?
As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.

Following on from the Great Road Trip series, our next series is called Growing People.

On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus spent a lot of time with his disciples teaching, demonstrating and living the Kingdom of God.

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As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. Luke 9:51

As we move out of the holidays, and into 2023 proper, we want to build on our theme of Welcome as we work through Luke's gospel and follow Jesus on The Great Roadtrip.

The next ten chapters of Luke's gospel document the events of Jesus' journey to Jerusalem. These chapters are filled with momentous events and revolutionary teaching as Jesus and his followers make their way to the city.

Throughout this account, Luke continues to be concerned with showing how Jesus and the gospel impacted ordinary people, and how Jesus continues to both fulfill what was prophesied about the coming messiah, while also continuing to confound expectations and be very different to what people expect to find.

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