17
Sep 2018

Update: Week 2

Sermon Reflections, Update
No Comments

Our second Sunday had a very different feel to the first, but was equally good and encouraging for us at Christ Church Fareham. We had 26 people at the service, we put on kids work for the very first time, we had two new visitors from Fareham, as well as connecting with a lady at the front who said she’d come back next week with her husband. I preached from Acts 2:42-47 and talked about Devotion to Christ and 8 Marks of Christ Church Fareham, established from the example of the early......

Read More

14
Sep 2018

Reflections on a Fantastic First Sunday

Church Planting, Sermon Reflections, Update
No Comments

87 people joined us for our very first Sunday service as Christ Church Fareham.  The room we’re using seats just over 100 people, so we were packed.  Friends and family came from York, Watford, Woking and Portsmouth to support us and we also had a good number of people from Fareham.  We also had some non-Christians in the room and have had some really good feedback from them. There were a few things to iron out, but generally we had a really fantastic afternoon service.  I preached on Acts 2:22-41 and Peter’s......

Read More

06
Sep 2018

“God is exactly like Jesus, since Jesus is identical with God”

Reading Reflections, Theology
No Comments

I am currently reading Union with Christ by Robert Letham.  Union with Christ is such a crucial Christian truth.  Letham is right when he begins his book “Union with Christ is right at the centre of the Christian doctrine of salvation”.  And so I really want to be able to preach it in a clear and accessible way.  I may well touch on it in my sermon on Sunday on Acts 2 – Peter’s magnificent sermon about the magnificence of Christ in his life, death, resurrection, ascension and identity (as Lord and......

Read More

29
Aug 2018

Christ Church Fareham make the local press!

Church Planting, Update
No Comments

We’re very thankful to Portsmouth News for publicising the launch of Christ Church Fareham with a local news article, available online and in print (https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/group-launches-new-church-to-spread-joy-in-fareham-1-8617094). I must admit being interviewed and seeing the finished article was a fascinating process.  I love the title – Group launches new church to spread joy – but I believe every reference to Jesus or the Bible in my interview was removed.  I wonder whether that was a deliberate decision. I was asked a whole host of questions including “Does Fareham need a new church?” and “How many kids......

Read More

22
Aug 2018

A Hearty Desire to Pray

Reading Reflections
No Comments

Here’s something not every New Frontiers Church leader will say: I sometimes use the Common Book of Prayer to help me pray.  Not often, but now and again, I’ll pick it up, flick through and use it for inspiration.  And although the language is archaic, the meaning of the prayers are excellent and extremely helpful. Here’s one I read this week. O LORD, we beseech thee mercifully to hear us; and grant that we, to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray, may by thy mighty aid be defended and......

Read More

%d bloggers like this: