Reading the Bible

The best way to read the Bible is slowly. Make time. Don’t dash it down like a fast food meal. Savour it. There are some books that are great at helping you make sense of it. How to read the Bible Book by book is a classic text that can really help Want to read the bible in one year ? Holy Trinity Brompton have created an app that gives you readings and some commentary, you can read them, or have them read to you. You can also have a daily email sent to you if the app doesnt suit. You’ll find it here The Bible Project is producing wonderful videos and posters that help you make sense of the…

An Alphabetical Prayer

Written by the community at Parklands last Sunday and incorporated into our worship You are a God Who … Is an amazing, accepting, awesome, affirming, adoring, Abba Father. Blesses us in bold ways, bring us home and gave us the beatitudes. Is caring, cuddly, cares for His children, community, church, city, cars and cats. He is Christ and He celebrates Christmas and loves carols and card. He also can eat cookies and ice-cream constantly, courageously and can concourse the whole container. Is caring and cool Christ. Is a divinely devoted Dad who deliberately died for us and delivered us into a dynamic destiny. Is exciting and exuberant in extending grace, eagerly encouraging, exhaustive in your excellence, engages with us in…

‘WONDERFUL COUNSELLOR’

ADVENT SERVICE ‘WONDERFUL COUNSELLOR’ Message by Lester Isaiah 9.1 -7, Matt 4.12-17. WHAT AM I GOING TO SAY: How Jesus came to a dark of place. HOW AM I GOING TO SAY IT: 1. Historical Context 2. Look at what Isaiah means by ‘Light & Darkness’ 3. Read Isaiah 9.1-7. 4. Look at the names ‘Wonderful & Counsellor’ 5. Look at the strange events around this child! 6. Read Mathew 4.12 – 17 7. Talk about 4a Brentwood St. HISTORICAL CONTEXT In the year 735 BC, the King of Assyria (at this stage occupying most of modern Iraq & Syria) was marching his army westward towards what is now Turkey, that same year the Northern tribes of Israel, already under…