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After being with us at Parkside for over 50 years, Elizabeth is moving to be closer to her son, Nigel.
We arranged a small tea to bid her farewell and David Angell gave a short speech recounting some of her moments while she has been with us at Parkside.
He also presented her with a card and some vouchers for her to spend on something for her new house.
We’ll miss her at Parkside, but we know she’ll be back to visit us again soon.
Below are a few photos from the afternoon:
We started our fourth discover by singing All I once held dear and prayer.
Afterwards, it was time to learn our second memory verse, which was taken again from Psalms.
As before, the words were made to gradually disappear as the verse was repeated. Hopefully more will have remembered it than for the previous verse.
After some children’s choruses we sang Open our eyes, Lord before the children adjourned for their classes.
For those who were left, Alan read the reading from Mark 15:22-39 before David came up to speak on the fourth of our six weeks of Christianity Explored. His subject this week was The Cross: Why did Jesus die?
Below are tweets from the morning:
Today at #discover, we're looking at 'The cross: Why did Jesus die?'. Why do Christians make the cross the centre of their faith?
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Today, David will look at what happened when Jesus died on the cross, what that means and how people reacted to it.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Mark 10:45 tells us that Jesus came to the earth to die.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Darkness in Mark 15:33 was not an eclipse. This was caused by God's anger. Verse 34 gives the reason: 'My God, why have you forsaken me?'.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
God is angry about our sin. But God's anger fell upon His Son Jesus who took our sin upon Him, on the cross at Calvary.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Mark 15 37-38 tells us that when Jesus died, the curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom indicating there is a way back to God.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Jesus took our sins on Him and paid the debt that was ours, when He died on the cross. We now have access back to God through faith.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
Those who crucified Jesus cast lots for His clothes. His death was nothing special to them. What about us?
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
The chief priests and teachers of the law were happy with their teaching. Pilate knew what was right but went with the flow. How about us?
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
The centurian in Mark 15:39 realised that Jesus was the Son of God. We're left with a choice. Will you keep your sins or take them to Jesus?
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 26, 2014
The presentation from the morning can be found here – 20140112 – Discover Week 4
You can download David’s talk by right-clicking on the link below and selecting ‘Save link as…’. Alternatively, press the play button to listen directly from the website.
We had around 40 people with us this morning as we began our third week of discover by singing How great Thou art and prayer.
Only a couple of people were able to recall the memory verse from last week, but those who had remembered it were given a chocolate coin.
We again had a few children’s choices before finishing by singing Faithful One.
After the children went out for their classes, Phil read from Mark 7:1-8 and 14-23 before Alan came up to speak.
Alan’s subject for the third week of the Christianity Explored course was ‘Sin: Why did Jesus come?‘
Below are some tweets from his talk. Underneath them are both the presentation and the audio recording from this morning:
This morning in #discover, we're looking at the subject of 'Sin: Why did Jesus come?' with @alan_r_m.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
We started our Christianity Explored series by looking at the good news. Today we're looking at the bad news.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
Today, we're looking at Why Jesus came. The main reason that He came is because we have all done things wrong in our lives.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
In Mark 7:20-23, Jesus looks at the human heart and how all of our evil thoughts come from within.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
In Mark 12:30, we're told to Love the Lord with all our heart and soul and mind and strength. We've all failed because of sin.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
In Mark 2, Jesus had dinner with a tax collector. Many asked why. Jesus replied saying He had not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
In Mark 9, Jesus shows us that we can't solve the problem with sin ourselves. We need His help to deal with it.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
Mark 2:17 – Jesus said: I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 19, 2014
@alan_r_m Good service. Particularly the humane inclusiveness of the message of salvation. The dentist analogy worked perfectly. #preachit
— Paulo Coll (@paulocoll) January 19, 2014
Here is the presentation from this morning:- 20140112 – Discover Week 3
You can download Alan’s talk by right-clicking on the link below and selecting ‘Save link as…’. Alternatively, press the play button to listen directly from the website.
Don’t forget to join us next week from 11:30am as David takes the next in the Christianity Explored series with the subject ‘The cross: Why did Jesus die?‘
You can download or listen to the talks from the first two weeks below:
Our second week of discover began with the singing of In Christ Alone and Victor opening in prayer.
Phil, who was chairing, then introduced a memory verse for us to learn for next week. This had been taken from those in the Psalms which are regularly tweeted from the Parkside Twitter account.
As we read through the verse, words gradually disappeared. A prize will be offered next week when people will be asked to repeat the verse.
After we had sung a few children’s choices – and Happy Birthday to Becky – the children departed for their classes.
Alan read through the story of Jesus healing a dead girl from Mark 5 before David Angell came up to take us through the second part of our Christianity Explored course – Who is Jesus.
Using verses from Mark, David talked through how Jesus has power and authority to teach, over sickness, over nature, over death and finally to forgive sin.
You can see the full presentation from the morning, including David’s slides here: 20140112 – Discover Week 2.
Today in #discover, we're looking at the subject 'Who is Jesus?'
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 12, 2014
Jesus taught as one who had authority to teach in the synagogue. He also had power over sickness and authority over nature.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 12, 2014
Jesus also has power and authority over death as well as power and authority to forgive sins.
— Parkside Christn Fwp (@ParksideCF) January 12, 2014
You can download David’s talk by right-clicking on the link below and selecting ‘Save link as…’. Alternatively, press the play button to listen directly from the website.
Join us for Week 3 of discover on Sunday 19 January from 11:30am.
Tonight we welcomed Mervyn Hall for the latest in our monthly series of conferences.
Mervyn took the subject Ruth: a widow’s love.
You can download the conference by right-clicking on the link below and selecting ‘Save link as…’ or listen to Mervyn’s message by pressing play button below:
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