Church in the Peak

Colossians 1:24‭-‬27 NLT Suffering in the world is probably the biggest excuse of why people say God cannot exist. What is suffering? Suffering is having what you don’t want or wanting what you don’t have. Elizabeth Elliot For centuries v24 has been used as reasoning to torture yourself and feel that your pain is a good thing. This is not what this verse is about. How do we suffer? Paul suffered i...

For Phil's full notes (in PDF format): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vFoecw0OTsEXrZFvTCZv_CKLUMhsCVDy/view?usp=sharing Introduction  • Today's Talk is an Important /serious Talk • There seems to be another teaching around about God's Punishment that does not line up with New Testament teaching • We all can have moments of doubt  • we can all get tempted to look to something else...

Colossians 1:19-22 Ezekiel 37:1-14 God reconciles man to God – He is the only one who can do this but why does he need to? Can we reconcile ourselves to God? The problem as always is our sinful nature and that we are sinners and God is Holy – the two cannot mix and so the "sin problem" has to be dealt with before we can be reconciled to God. Reconcile – To make things compatible with eac...

Andrew spoke about the hope that we have as churches preparing for their wedding to Jesus. 1: What emotions do you feel when you think about the return of Jesus? 2: Whose name came into your mind when Andrew talked about those called who you really want to see at the wedding? Pray for them  3: In preparing the bride for the return of the bridegroom what part do you think you are called to play ?

Peter continued our series looking at Colossians. This is a 1st century hymn, and Paul incorporates the words into his letter.  Paul is describing how amazing God is, and how integral Jesus was to the entire creation. Colossians 1:15‭-‬17 NLT Our vision is not big enough  We need to readjust our thinking. The sun is 1.39 million km across and is a long way away. If the sun was a watermelon, then t...

Lifestyle of Prayer V 3 - We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.   Col 4:2 Paul gives some clear instructions about Prayer : ‘Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving’ (ESV).    Firstly, we are to continue in prayer.    • We are instructed to cultivate prayers in our lives; that is, an ongoing habit of prayer. A lifesty...

Lifestyle of Prayer Introduction Paul who once persecuted the Church, had Christians thrown in Prison even killed now prays for the church with such love and affection   Paul loves the Church, because Jesus Loves the Church. He died for the church, It is the Bride of Christ.   Paul's Love for the church is expressed in the way he Gives thanks, highlighting the Good news that is being worked i...

Dave continued our series on Colossians. The gospel is changing lives and bearing fruit.  Colossians 1 v 6-8“This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace. You learned about the Good News from Epaphras, our beloved...

Neal introduced our series on Colossians. Are you ready for an adventure in Colossians? We are talking about being a disciple of Jesus and following him and this book is great as its tells us where we have come from, how we follow Jesus and what to be careful of in our Christian lives. Paul writes a letter from his prison in Rome to the church at Colossae – He has never visited the Church personal...

Phil gave an introduction to our new series looking at Colossians, which starts next week.  Disciples who make Disciples  Introduction  Adventures with God  Have you Got a taste for Adventure - (beer mat from  a couple of years ago)  Some have left is to go on their Adventure with God, some have joined us on our Adventure I believe we are entering a new phase of Adventure  The Adventure so Far  A...

Rather than suggesting we diet in the New Year, Peter encouraged us to feast... with the Lord - reading our bibes, praying and worshiping. 

Dave spoke at our Christmas Day Service.

Phil spoke at our Christmas Celebration service.

Neal spoke about Jesus, the Prince of Peace - Isaiah 9 vs 6-7   Isaiah was a prophet speaking to the kingdom of Judah in 600-700 BC and famously prophesied the coming of Jesus particularly in Isaiah chapter 9 and 53. This word peace in Hebrew is “Shalom” but it means far more than peace as we would understand the word. It means wholeness, completeness. For example a house finished with no bricks m...

Phil spoke about Peter and how Jesus redeemed him from his failures. Jesus redeems us from our failures.  In any sporting event like Olympic Games every four years, probably 90 percent of the best athletes in the world do not win a medal. They try but they fail. Likewise, the Bible records many people who failed. Often times we fail at the point of our greatest strength. All failure can be redeeme...

Andrew preached on the Kingdom Of God.

Steve outlined the three steps to salvation:  Believe that God created the heavens and earth Believe that Jesus died for our sins Believe that the only way to heaven is with Jesus.

Ruth and Neal give an update on how Jigsaw has responded to Coronavirus.  God has increased his blessings on us so that we can bless and support more people than ever in our area.

Peter spoke about the challenges of 'one anothering' with the church family in the times of Covid. I don't know how you feel about church at present. A year ago, virtual church, wouldn’t have been our plan. The church is the people, not the building. But now, where are the people? Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.  And let us not neglect ou...

Dave spoke on John 3:16. “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again." John 3:1...

Jenny spoke about shoes - Moses, the Prodigal Son and John the Baptist.

Keith spoke from Philippians about our need to trust that God is in control. Please note that there were a couple of issues with the mic at the beginning of Keith's preach.

Phil preached from 1 Peter 2 & 4 Second Part of Talk Introduction Looked at Peter and how the change from a working class fisherman to being a man full of the holy sprirt and Fire Neal spoke last week on another man called Gideon who said of himself as the leats of the least from the least of all the tribes How do you see yourself ? Peter wrote this about every Christian: 1 Peter 2:9 https://b...

Neal looked at Gideon and the lessons that we can learn. After Joshua had died the children of Israel did not follow Jehovah and did not carry out all the things God had told them to do. They got themselves into big trouble! Judges 2 vs 10-11 God places 12 Judges over the children of Israel to try and get them to return to him and trust him again. Gideon is one of these 12 Judges 6 vs 7 -24 I want...

Nick spoke about the Yom Kippur preparations that the High Priest needed to make to be able to enter the Holy of Holies once a year and our access to God through Jesus's sacrifice.