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40 Days with Jesus – Week 5 Day 1

Click here to see Matt’s video for Monday 11th May.

Here’s the link to the video on Holiness from The Bible Project. 

After completing the blog for today Matt spent time in evening prayer and was inspired by the opening lines of the Psalm for this evening – Psalm 105:1-11. It led him to look up this video – Oh Immanuel, by Joshua Aaron.

The video for the song is set in the very hill of Galilee that Matt was talking about, above the Mount of Beatitudes.

The ideas that it conjures about being open to Immanuel – God with us and seeing Him in the moment shows that anyone can be a great witness to God’s eternal and everlasting love.

Hope it brings some peace to you all this evening.

The other reading for this evening is 1 Peter 1: 3-9- a beautiful passage of God’s love for us shown through Jesus’ resurrection.

https://youtu.be/Dl5iPXltMH4Official Lyric Video for “Immanuel” by Joshua Aaron from his new album “Every Tribe” – LYRICS BELOW – Available on iTunes at: https://goo.gl/TqrpEh or visit …

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Live Stream 10th May

Click here to view the service that was live streamed on Sunday 10th May.

Hymns, Songs, Readings and other links for 5th Sunday of Easter –

“Party in the Wilderness” –

part of the VE Day celebration weekend:

Bible Readings:

The Feeding of the Five Thousand Story – John 6:1-13

The Manna from Heaven – part of the Exodus Story – Exodus 16:1-36

The Parable of the Great Wedding Banquet – Matthew 22:1-14

The Wedding at Cana in Galilee – John 2:1-11

Set Readings for today:

Acts 7:55-end

1Peter 2:2-10

John 14:1-14.

Hymns and Songs:

Hopefully, something for everyone…

Traditional:

  1. Bread – God with Us – “Guide me, O thou great Jehovah” (Bread of Heaven) – Songs of Praise – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4n1hGjDDg

Meditation/Reflection:

TRY AND WATCH THIS IF YOU CAN – even if you play no other:

The UK Blessing — Churches sing ‘The Blessing’ over the UK –

Modern Music:

Videos:

  • The Queen’s VE Day Address ‘Never give up’ – VE Day 75 – BBC –
  1. Rend Collective – “The art of celebration: the story” – The importance of Joy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamJCsYMFBg

Books:

  1. “40 Days with Jesus” by Dave Smith (looks in daily detail at the Resurrection stories).   Can be got from Eden or Amazon websites, or on Amazon Kindle ebook Reader
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Live Service this Sunday

Party in the Wilderness

Live this Sunday 10th May at 10.30am

This Bank Holiday weekend is about a time of celebration – and hopefully you have found some way to share in this, from the most simple to the most grand.  Partying is important to God – heaven, after all, is described on more than one occasion in the Bible as a ‘wedding banquet.’

At the same time, we’re in the midst of Lockdown and therefore not able to celebrate with the freedom we would have wished.  But we look forward to a time when we can.  This theme of now, and not yet is also a very theme for the people of God through biblical history, characterised best perhaps in the great story of the “feeding of the Five Thousand.”

So, we’re going to have a ‘virtual’ “Picnic on a Hillside” this Sunday (10th May).  For this you will need:

  • A Candle – as always – for our Easter light
  • Something red, white and blue – could be bunting, could be a coloured in Poster (see the New Creation website or Facebook page), could be a scarf or Union Flag 
  • Some Flat or Unleavened Bread – could be Pitta Bread, a Cream Cracker, some Matzo, or Kirsty will kindly put up a recipe making your own Matzo Bread at home (very simple).
  • Some Fish (of fish substitute) – not everyone likes fish, especially at 10.30 in the morning – but try and think creatively what you might use as an alternative, veggie or otherwise.
  • Something to drink – Squash, Ribena, a glass of wine, or good old water.

Look forward to seeing you Sunday. Much Love, Matt.