Our sixth week of discoverbegan with the singing of There is a hope and prayer.
Instead of a memory verse this week, we enjoyed a quiz which was based around anagrams of books of the Bible, some of which proved more challenging than others.
After the quiz, we had time for a couple of children’s choices, before they went out for their activities.
This was the final week of our Christianity Explored Course and Alan came up to read from Mark 10:13-27, ahead of David Angell coming up to speak on the subject of Grace: how can God accept us?
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.
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?
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.
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.
Slide from David’s presentation
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?'
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 a good number in for our first week of the new discover service at Parkside.
This was the first week that we had served coffee (and other drinks) in the main hall and it seemed to work well, with those arriving, happy to partake and mingle ahead of the main service.
The opening week was chaired by Phil and began with an a capella version of I do not know what lies ahead and prayer.
Phil explained about the new format for discover and that the children would be going out for their activities at 12:00pm, at which point Alan Michael would begin a six week series using content from the well-known Christianity Explored course.
After a number of children’s choices, it was time for the children to adjourn to the back rooms, along with Lesley, Sarah and Brian.
Phil read from Mark 1:1-15, before handing over to Alan.
Alan’s title for the first week of the course was ‘Good News: What are we doing here?’ and worked through the first few verses of Mark 1, explaining them one verse at a time.
At the end of the service, Alan offered some handouts with questions on, based on the passage covered, as well as inviting questions either via pen and paper or making use of Twitter.
We were very pleased with how the first week went and look forward to hearing David Angell next week, who will be taking the second week of the course, with the subject Identity: Who is Jesus?
You can download a copy of Alan’s slides from Week 1 of discover here – discover-week-1-05012014.pdf or download the talk by right-clicking on the link below and selecting ‘Save link as…’. Alternatively, press the play button to listen directly from the website.
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