Photos from the Emmanuel Launch

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Plea for Prayer for the General Synod

Christian Concern For Our Nation have issued a plea to churches of all denominations in the run up to the next meeting of the Anglican General Synod. “On February 28th the Church of England’s decision-making body, the General Synod, will be debating two crucial motions on the subject of homosexuality in the Church. Because the [...]

Amazing Grace

A new film to be released this month tells the story of the British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce and his fight, two hundred years ago, to abolish the British slave trade.The film shows the link from Wilberforce to John Newton, himself a slave trader who incredibly became a Christian and wrote the famous hymn [...]

Interview with Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins’ latest book ‘The God Delusion’ was one of the best sellers this last Christmas. He is the Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and one of a group of influential writers and thinkers known as ‘the new atheists’, driven by an evangelical fervour to convert others to their way [...]

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

This book tells the story of a young American student becoming a Christian through his friendship with C.S.Lewis. Here’s a quote from it to help us think more about last Sunday’s Bible teaching … “There is a gap between the probable and the proved. How was I to cross it? If I were to stake [...]

Dig Deeper by Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach

We are recommending this excellent book as an extremely helpful companion to our training course ‘Understanding and Communicating the Bible’ on Monday evenings. ‘Dig Deeper’ will equip you with a whole range of sixteen very practical tools to unearth the Bible’s treasure. As one reviewer says: ‘it will help you to see the Bible as [...]

Why we use the ESV

We have bought copies of the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible to use as our church Bibles. Some people have been wondering why, particularly because most people probably use the New International Version. There are many different versions of the Bible now available. At one end of the spectrum are those that aim [...]

Service times

The news from our January Members Meeting is that our Sunday meetings will continue to be at 3:30pm for now. From Sunday March 25 (the day when the clocks change) and for the whole of the summer, we will change our meeting time to 10:30am.