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Hi folks, we are meeting on Sunday night at the Tavern and Galley at 7.30, It would be great to see you if you are able. Enclosed is the program for the summer… and the image that goes with our theme this week. This week we’re thinking about what it really means to change. Not in a heavy or guilt-filled …
Flowing from Love — God With Us Matthew 3:13-17 NRSV Hi folks, i hope your are doing ok? This week we are meeting in the Tynemouth Castle Inn from 7.30. Also please be aware that there will not be a meeting next week as we will be on our annual weekend away. This week’s blog continues our program thinking about …
I wonder if you have been baptized, or Christened? I am a British Baptist. So as you can imagine I have a particular view of Baptism. It’s a view that’s held by a lot of other Christians too these days but, back in the day, these views would have gotten you killed. Usually by drowning – because people back then …
Welcome all – we will be at the Tynemouth Castle this week at 7:30pm – The place is a maze so please look around for the group when you get there. Burning bushes, pillars of fire, tongues of fire, smoking firepots and blazing torches, fire mountains! There is a lot of symbolism in the bible that uses fire as a …
Hi folks, I hope you are doing ok? This week we are meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7.30, it would be lush to see you if you are able to join us. This weeks blog should be written by Karen, but i’ve stepped in, what with all that’s been going on in our lives these last four weeks. I’m …
William P Brown, in his book The Seven Pillars of Creation, notes that there are at least seven creation narratives in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). If you asked most people how many creation narratives existed in the bible they would say one. Some who have read into Genesis 2 would tell you that there are maybe two. …
This is one of the most famous photographs ever taken: The Blue Marble, taken on the 7th December 1972 from Apollo 17. It has been said that the pictures taken from space starting in 1946, and famously earthrise taken on Christmas eve 1968, helped to galvanise the environmental movement. It was the first time that man had seen the earth …
Over the last few months we have been reflecting on books, films, music and other things that has inspired or challenged us. Well over the past few weeks all I have done is consume vast amounts of material on the book of Leviticus. I am afraid that is what you are going to get here. Bring on the sacrifice! A …
Hi folks, i hope you are doing ok! This week i want to remind you about two things… See the images for more details – I’m looking for you festive 30 songs of the year… and also next week we have Beer and Carols at Platform Two, i hope that you can join us! This week we will meet at …
Advent Week One – Letting Stuff Go – Mark 13:24-37 Hi folks, as we enter advent I have asked some folks to write a blog for each week, based on a passage, and a theme that the Methodist Church have put together called ‘Out of the Ordinary’. This weeks blog is written for us by Ben, to see the reading …