St Luke's Thurnby

Genesis 2:4-17

God is a life-giving generous God. God has created us to be a life living people who work, who care, and who are free.

Genesis 1:31-2:3

If humanity is the highpoint of creation the goal of creation is rest. The day of rest gives hope that God will keep his promises and it shows us what life is for.

Genesis 1:24-30

To be human means being made in the image of God and made for a purpose. Our experience is this image is marred and purpose frustrated but in Jesus we are renewed to a life of knowing and experiencing God as Father and a life of fruitfulness.

Genesis 1:1-25

In the beginning we are introduced to God who is eternal, loving, powerful and is the God to be worshipped.

Matthew 28:11-20

Jesus' body was not stolen away by his friends but really is alive. This is good news to go and take to all people

1 Peter 1:3-9

Easter means hope. The resurrection gives us new life into a living hope which brings unending, unsquashable, and unsealable joy

Matthew 27:27-56 Good Friday Reflection

A Good Friday reflection looking at Matthew's account of Jesus' crucifixion and focusing in on his cry from the cross - a cry in the darkness, a cry of obedience, and a cry that brings hope.

28/3/21 Isaiah 38-39

Facing a crisis. Hezekiah desires to be the man who walks humbly but in the end his pride outweighs his faith leading to compromise. Sound familiar? We need a better king.

21/3/21 Isaiah 36-37

Who will you trust? Hezekiah turns to the Lord in the of challenges. How does God answer prayer? How can we learn to pray?

Hebrews 12:1-3 (Women's Prayer Breakfast)

What it looks like to persevere in our faith in Jesus by living rightly, fixing our eyes on Jesus, and depending on each other.

14/3/21 Isaiah 34-35

Which way? Chapters 34 and 35 zoom out to a future still to come where there's is judgement and joy. God's judgement takes place so that there can be everlasting joy.

7/3/21 Isaiah 33:1-24

God the consuming fire. God's fire consumers his enemies and all that is evil - we need to trust in him, walk with him, and wait for him.

28/2/21 Isaiah 30:1-33

The God who waits. God is at work wherever his people repent and believe.

21/2/21 Isaiah 29:1-24

God's Perspective. God gives sight of what the future holds so that we might live our lives in light of it - trusting God's promises with soft hearts.

Ephesians 6:10-20

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

Matthew 18:21-35

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us

Exodus 16:16-35; Proverbs 30:8-9

Give us today our daily bread

Isaiah 65:17-25

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven

Romans 8:14-17

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name

Matthew 6:5-15

Overview of the Lord's Prayer

John 1:1-14 - Carol Service

Romans 8:18-30

Longing for God's new creation

Isaiah 64:1-12

Longing for God to make himself known

Psam 80

Longing for God to restore and revive his people

Luke 5:33-6:11

The message of the gospel is a message of life

Lamentations 3:19-26

Luke 5:12-32

Repentance is not something gloomy, it is good news

Luke 5:1-11

Fishing for people

Luke 4:31-44

Jesus' authority and preaching

Luke 4:14-30

Jesus rejected at Nazareth