It’s our birthday

This Sunday, Emmanuel is celebrating its first birthday. It’s just one year since our official launch, and there is much to thank God for as we look back. If you’re coming to church this week, don’t forget to wear a festive hat! It’s also an opportunity to look forward and to commit ourselves again as [...]

Christianophobia

In the past, we’ve talked in this blog about changing attitudes to Christianity in British society. This week, Mark Pritchard MP called for a debate on Christianophobia in Westminster Hall. He told the BBC: ‘The debate is not about doing God or theocracy. It’s about ensuring that the Christian tradition of our nation is recognised.’ [...]

Welcome to students

This Sunday (14 October 07) at Emmanuel is a good week to visit us if you are student within reach of Bramcote!  Every student who comes this week to our Sunday meeting at 10.30 will get a free lunch hosted at the home of one of our church families. If you are at Nottingham Uni, meet [...]

Two Ways to Live

Two Ways to Live is a simple way of explaining what Christians believe.  It can be learnt as a basic outline using six pictures which make it easy to remember.  Plus there’s a Bible verse that shows where each step in this outline comes from. At Emmanuel, we’ve been running a training course to learn Two Ways [...]

Summer holidays

Emmanuel is now in summer holiday mode. A number of people are away at various times during these summer months, and most of our midweek groups are taking a short break. However, we still meet every Sunday at 10.30am at Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College, meeting rather more informally in the Library (- follow [...]

Promoting the Gospel

Our book of the month/six weeks is Promoting the Gospel by John Dickson.  It will help us to think more about our Sunday Bible teaching this summer on the theme of ‘Salvation to the ends of the earth: God’s mission and ours’.  John Dickson writes in a conversational style, with helpful illustrations and pertinent applications, [...]

Emmanuel went camping … and Paul came too

Here some things we learnt during our camping weekend from the story of Acts 9 when Paul met the risen Lord Jesus: Paul the Persecutor Nobody is so good that they don’t need Jesus: Paul thought he pleased God, and had more religion than you can throw a chasuble at … yet he came to realise that [...]

Ministry Trainees 2007-08

We are advertising for two Ministry Trainees for the year 2007/08. Details can be found on the website of the 9:38 network. About our new ministry trainees Our purpose is to contribute to the training of pastors and evangelists of the highest quality in conviction, character and competence, passing on not so much a methodology [...]

Is Christianity good for you?

Did you enjoy reading our earlier blog post where Christians debate with ‘the new atheists’? Here’s another one on a similar theme.

The Blood of Jesus

What a great new song we learnt last Sunday. It was wonderful to focus again on the death of Jesus for us, and think about how ‘nothing but the blood of Jesus’ can put us right with God. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole [...]