Posts: Church blog
Living Well
By Gerry Straker, 08 Jul 2026Life is hard, life is ordinary - and it's supposed to be. The LORD does extraordinary things through ordinary Christians making the most of their time on earth in the...
Mark's Gospel in 6 verses
By Gerry Straker, 13 Apr 2026At Church by the Bay we have tried to learn 6 verses from Mark so we can share those verses with friends and family in conversation, or by opening up...
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
By Gerry Straker, 06 Mar 2026I typed into ChatGPT this: “Write a teaching time for Church on AI and theology” and in less than a second – I’m sorry I can’t be more precise than...
How can we grow in godliness?
By Gerry Straker, 02 Feb 2026Godliness (Titus 1:1) or good works (Titus 2;15), obedience (1 John 5:2), holiness (1 Peter 1:15-16), doing good (3 John 11), imitating Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) is essential. In Titus...
Preaching Definition
By Gerry Straker, 19 Jan 2026On Sunday 18th January I preached on Titus 1:6-16. The answer to the problems on Crete, and the problems in the UK Church is to appoint elders. Not just any...
Church Statistics
By Gerry Straker, 12 Dec 2025In Autumn 2025 as we studied Acts I referenced a number of different statistics. The statistics come from several sessions at the FIEC leaders conference Steve Sammons and I went on...
Map of the gospel
By Gerry Straker, 24 Nov 2025At Church by the Bay we love the Word of God - that's our first love. But we also enjoy seeing the work of God through history, as the gospel,...
Alcuin's prayers
By Gerry Straker, 10 Nov 2025At our eighth annual Reformation addresses we met the most important Englishman, indeed European that you’ve probably never heard of: Alcuin (730-804 AD). You can listen here. Below are a handful...
A Prayer using the Lord’s Prayer
By Gerry Straker, 28 Oct 2025A Prayer using the Lord’s Prayer Adapted from the Heidelberg Catechism Questions 120-129 Our Father As we call to you in prayer, we express our childlike reverence and trustthat through Christ you O...
A resurrection prayer
By Tom Day, 20 May 2025On Sunday 18th May we enjoyed Psalm 30 - all about the resurrection of God\'s King Jesus and his people. You can catch up here. This is a prayer Tom wrote...
Mark: 6 Questions for 6 Verses
By Steve Sammons, 20 Feb 2025It may just be me, but I really struggle to “Connect” conversations to the gospel! There are sometimes moments, when I think: “this conversation is going in a great direction,...
The Reading Order for the Chronicles of Narnia
By Gerry Straker, 13 Feb 2025You should read The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis. Why? Tom tells us in the confessions of a Narnia laggard by Tom Day aged 23. You should read The Chronicles...
Mark's Gospel in 6 verses
By Gerry Straker, 03 Feb 2025This Spring 2025 in our C3 teams (small groups on Wednesdays) we are: Learning 6 verses from Mark so we can share them Looking at 6 passages so we could read them...
Church by the Bay sends Church planters
By Ben and Caz Petersen, 28 Aug 2024We are sending Ben, Caz and Anna Petersen to Trinity Church, Chester to build a team to plant a church in Buckley, Flintshire, Lord-willing in September 2025. Here are some...
10 words for God's 10 words - part 2
By Gerry Straker, 09 Feb 2024How are Christians to understand God's 10 words (what the Bible calls the 10 commandments) he gave at Mount Sinai to Moses? We know God's Word is for us and...
10 words for God's 10 words - part 1
By Gerry Straker, 07 Feb 2024This Spring 2024 at Church by the Bay for 10 weeks we are looking at the 10 words from Exodus 20:1-17 on Wednesdays in our C3 teams. 10 words? It’s...
2. Why is the Heidelberg Catechism for us?
By Gerry Straker, 12 Jan 2024In our first article we thought about: What is a catechism? Where does the Heidelberg Catechism come from? What was the Heidelberg Catechism for? What is in the Heidelberg Catechism? In this article we answer...
1. Introducing the Heidelberg Catechism
By Gerry Straker, 12 Jan 2024The Heidelberg Catechism is our book of the term. It’s my hope that as a Church we will read it. The Heidelberg Catechism dovetails with our thinking about the ten...
A prayer for sufferers in Church on Sundays
By Catherine Straker, 29 Sep 2023Father God Thank you for gathering us together this morning so we can be encouraged by each other and by your Word. Thank you that no matter how we are feeling...
An Unashamedly Christian Toddler Group
By Lauren McCabe, 15 Aug 2023Gerry and Vanessa featured on the latest FIEC (Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) podcast talking about Babygrows and how a church toddler group can be an effective way to reach families...
More prayers from Leviticus
By Bethany Steventon, 06 Jul 2023Beth prayed this at Church on 2nd July: O LORD, our God, who brought us up out of our sin and consecrated us by the blood of your son. You call...
Prayers from Leviticus
By Tom Day, 05 Jun 2023At Prayer lunch Tom and Hazel Day prayed these prayers in response to Sunday 4th June's sermon on Leviticus 8 and reflecting on Colossians 3. Heavenly Father, the one whom we...
Singing the Psalms in Christ - Exaltation
By Ben Petersen, 25 Apr 2023This is the second of two posts helping us think more about reading and singing the Psalms ‘in Christ.’ You can read the first one here. Our starting point is...
Singing the Psalms in Christ - Humiliation
By Ben Petersen, 25 Apr 2023In these two posts we’ll be thinking about reading (and singing!) the Psalms as Christians. Previously we’ve said that the Psalms are about Jesus. They’re God’s prophetic word about the...
One-to-ones - Part 2
By Ben Petersen, 23 Jan 2023This is our second post thinking about one-to-ones, what used to be called ‘Christian friendship.’ In our first post we saw the basic ingredients that go into a one-to-one. In...
One-to-ones - Part 1
By Ben Petersen, 22 Jan 2023A one-to-one is what churches with lots of students tend to call ‘having Christian friends.’ A one-to-one is where you meet with someone with some kind of regularity to build...
Worship, Worship, Worship
By Vanessa Rigby, 12 Dec 2022I am meeting another mum for a 1-1 – also known as Christian friendship (see here for our recent teaching series) and we are reading this book together: The End...
5th Annual Reformation Addresses
By Gerry Straker, 17 Oct 2022These Reformation Day Addresses are our annual celebration of God’s work through Church history as we look at two saints from the past. We all love a good story, and...
Remembering HM Queen Elizabeth II
By Gerry Straker, 18 Sep 2022'The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'(Mark 10:45) The Queen said a number of wonderful things...
Listening to Joshua 13-21
By Gerry Straker, 04 Jul 2022At Church by the Bay we have Church all together, followed by coffee and then teaching time in age groups (find out more here). Sunday 3rd July saw a different...
5. Conclusion: Children of God's people are God's people
By Gerry Straker, 25 May 2022In these five articles we are looking at what the Bible says about the children of God’s people: The Status of the Children of God’s People Children of God’s People...
4. Children of God's People Live as God's People
By Gerry Straker, 25 May 2022In these five articles we are looking at what the Bible says about the children of God’s people: The Status of the Children of God’s People Children of God’s People...
3. The Children of God's People Join God's People
By Gerry Straker, 25 May 2022In these five articles we are looking at what the Bible says about the children of God’s people: The Status of the Children of God’s People Children of God’s People...
2. Children of God's People in the Promises of God
By Gerry Straker, 24 May 2022In these five articles we are looking at what the Bible says about the children of God’s people: The Status of the Children of God’s People Children of God’s People in the...
1. The Status of the Children of God's People
By Gerry Straker, 24 May 2022Our Sunday mornings with Church for all the family young and old are shaped by what the Bible beautifully teaches us in three areas: What Church is Where children stand What preaching is Taken...
God is Other: The Experience of Wonder - Part 2
By Ben Petersen, 07 Apr 2022God is Other: The Experience of Wonder - Part 2[1] This is the second of two posts reflecting on a chapter from Adam Ramsey’s book Truth on Fire.[2] In Part...
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God is Other: The Experience of Wonder - Part 1
By Ben Petersen, 07 Apr 2022God is Other: The Experience of Wonder – Part 1[1] Through January and February, some of us read Truth on Fire, by Adam Ramsey.[2] His aim is to hold two things...
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The pursuit of happiness – finding our happiness in the happy God
By Tom Day, 07 Apr 2022The pursuit of happiness – finding our happiness in the happy God In my first part of this blog post (which you can find here) we looked at God’s happiness with...
The Happy God
By Tom Day, 07 Apr 2022The Happy God A number of us recently enjoyed reading ‘Truth on Fire’ by Adam Ramsey.[1] We also had 2 Sunday teaching times[2] reflecting on two chapters from the book.[3] Ramsay...
Children in Church
By Gerry Straker, 25 Feb 2022We've been welcoming children into Church for a while now. You may like to download our leaflet explaining more. Or have a read of our blog: In this first article you can...
Singing the Psalms Part 2: The Psalms are one book
By Tom Day, 11 Feb 2022In the last blog post on the Psalms, Ben wrote about how we can and should read the Psalms in Christ. As we read them, we do what Colossians 2...
Singing the Psalms Part 1: The Psalms are about Jesus and for Jesus
By Ben Petersen, 09 Feb 2022Since September 2021 we’ve been singing through the Psalms in our Sunday services at Church by the Bay. Before then we had been reading them aloud. I think most people...
Plan B at Church by the Bay
By Gerry Straker, 12 Dec 2021I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no Saviour. (Isaiah 43:11) The Government's Plan B is in fact the LORD's Plan A: nothing is outside his control or...
4th Annual Reformation Addresses
By Gerry Straker, 01 Nov 2021Join us for an evening of Church history. 8pm at our Church building: 91 Balmoral Road, Wednesday 3rd November. An evening on Church history?! I thought you were all about the...
The Sunday Plan
By Gerry Straker, 27 Aug 2021In my previous post, I shared how at Church by the Bay we want to use this opportunity that God has given us after these difficult 18 months to think...
Forward in battle!
By Gerry Straker, 27 Aug 2021Jesus said: 'I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it' (Matthew 16:18)During the past 18 months, God has not been idle! If the gates...
Sundays at Church by the Bay
By Gerry Straker, 21 Jul 2021What will Sundays at Church by the Bay look like now? On Friday 16th July the government released updated guidance for Churches. But before we look at what that means for Church by...
Church by the Bay at Westgate School
By Gerry Straker, 09 May 2021We meet for Church at our new venue Westgate School on Sundays at 10 for 10:30 am. You no longer need to book a place! Please read about the new arrangements for...
Being the Bad Guys
By Tom Day, 08 May 2021‘It’s come as a surprise, we’re not sure how it happened, we don’t like it and we don’t feel like we deserve it – but we are the bad guys...
Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund
By Tom Day, 02 Apr 2021Over the last few weeks, the staff team at Church by the Bay have been reading through the book Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund. The book has gained a...
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Jeremiah Burrough's 'Rare Jewel'
By Pam Tailyour, 15 Mar 2021The aptly-named Rare Jewel is a collection of sermons by Puritan preacher Jeremiah Burroughs, first published in 1648 after his death. Burroughs expounds the state of contentment of Paul in any...
Book on to Easter Sunday
By Gerry Straker, 03 Mar 2021We'll be meeting for Easter Sunday at the Alhambra at 10:30 am on 4th April. Book your place for this using the booking form below. NB Please do wrap up warm - it...
Reading Jeremiah in two days
By Vanessa Rigby, 01 Mar 2021Half term was a little bit different because of current restrictions and it was also different because it was the first time I remember having the whole half term off with...
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Confessions of a Narnia laggard
By Tom Day, age 23, 01 Mar 2021My relationship with reading has often been a love-hate relationship. I have great memories of sitting in my parent’s bed reading under the warm glow of the bedside lamp whilst...
Emotions: Mirrors of the heart
By Gerry Straker, 01 Mar 2021Emotions: Mirrors of the heart: Hope for those in the grip of powerful emotionsCatherine Haddow This book, written by a Chartered Psychologist, would serve as a good introduction to Biblical counselling. Haddow...
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Church continues at the Alhambra
By Gerry Straker, 08 Jan 2021Wonderfully, in God's grace, in Lockdown 3, we are still allowed to meet on Sunday mornings! Come and hear some good news for a change! We are meeting at 10am at...
Why train for gospel ministry now? During the Covid crisis?
By Tom Day, 18 Dec 2020In my first article I outlined the importance of training for gospel ministry. Training for gospel ministry is so important because it is: the pattern of the Christian life, an important task...
Why train for gospel ministry?
By Tom Day, 10 Dec 2020At the end of August 2020, I packed my bags to leave north London where I had been studying for 3 years at Oak Hill Theological College. I previously had...
Behold Him
By Gerry Straker, 01 Dec 2020Please join us for our Christmas series at Church by the Bay. All our live and in-person services are risk assessed and covid-secure. Please book in using our booking form....
Track and Trace
By Gerry Straker, 30 Nov 2020Between Monday-Friday 7th-11th December 5pm-7pm pick a time of your choosing with your household to track and trace the nativity around the West End of Morecambe. This is a Christmas treasure hunt...
Christmas at Church by the Bay
By Gerry Straker, 19 Nov 2020Some Christmas cheer in lockdown II - come join us at Church by the Bay to hear some good news... On Friday November 27th at 8pm is our Christmas women's event: making a rag wreath online...
Announcing a new venue
By Gerry Straker, 23 Oct 2020Meeting together is so important. The physical gathering of church is not a bonus for some of us who can make it, rather it’s what we were created and saved...
We've gone contactless
By Gerry Straker, 23 Oct 2020Credit cards, Oyster cards, smart phones, and now people too have gone contactless. Outside our households or bubbles we are not allowed to touch one another, and this is seriously...
Why we do C3, our small groups
By Gerry Straker, 18 Sep 2020At Church by the Bay, like many churches, we have small groups: our C3 teams. We call them C3 teams so that we have to explain our Church vision! Cherish Christ...
Time to come back to Church
By Gerry Straker, 18 Sep 2020The book of Hebrews is written to Christians under great pressure, and the writer urges them to persevere and carry on meeting: 'not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit...
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Unnatural Enemies by Kirsten Birkett
By Pam Tailyour, 21 Jul 2020This really is not my usual pick and I wondered what I’d got myself in for when I started it. When I showed it to my mother in law on video chat,...
Christ and science 4
By Gerry Straker, 20 Jul 2020We're picking up our little series, based on our back at the beginning of June, which you can watch here. It’s my hope that these articles will: Help you think rightly about science and...
Christ and science 3
By Gerry Straker, 16 Jul 2020We're picking up our little series, based on our back at the beginning of June, which you can watch here. It’s my hope that these articles will: Help you think rightly about science and...
The Westminster Confession of Faith
By Sean Tong, 09 Jul 2020There is something in the air. Amongst the clanging of knives and thudding impacts of muskets across the country, a different sort of revolution is underway. But this one is...
We're coming home
By Gerry Straker, 01 Jul 2020We're thrilled to announce that we are meeting together on Sunday 5th July at our church building, 91 Balmoral Road! We thank God that we can start doing Church again. Do...
The Westminster Assembly
By Sean Tong, 26 Jun 2020It’s a freezing day in January 1642, and John Hotham the Senior can feel something in the wind. A nation divided, a Parliament in chaos, the coming of war. But...
Christ and Science 2
By Gerry Straker, 13 Jun 2020This article is a follow on to this one, it would really help if you read that one first! 3. Science depends on Christianity a. God began science The first science in the...
Christ and Science 1
By Gerry Straker, 09 Jun 2020Over a few posts articles, we’re going to take a look at Christ and science. They are based on our C3 Central, which you can find here and the handout for...
12 Reasons I love Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You
By Pam Tailyour, 29 May 20201. Tony Reinke is not an arrogant smartphone-basher or smartphone-phobe. 2. Technology isn't new - and neither are the problems it brings. ‘The good-bad-ugly mix of technology came to particularly obnoxious expression...
Reading Creation 3b: Thanking God for clouds, our teacher
By Gerry Straker, 20 May 2020We've been thinking about how to read creation through the Word of God, and what God's creation teaches us. We've thought about sunshine and began to think about clouds. James Jordan...
Reading Creation 3a: Thanking God for clouds, our teacher
By Gerry Straker, 19 May 2020Recently, we thought about how to read creation. As new creations ourselves (2 Corinthians 5:17), we can now see with new eyes the glory of God glowing in the world...
1 John 1:5-2:2 Reflection
By Gerry Straker, 16 May 2020At Church by the Bay we need to listen to John’s apostolic message - the message about Jesus that he gave to his apostles, and they, and the Holy Spirit,...
On Reading in an Age of Distraction
By Gerry Straker, 16 May 2020During the lockdown, we’ve been encouraging ourselves to read, if you'd like, remind yourself why in these articles: Reading the Word Reading Changes Lives We need help Read the classics The Tender heart Today we’re thinking...
Tender Heart by Richard Sibbes
By Pam Tailyour, 10 May 2020During the lockdown, one way that Christians who have time can make the most of it is to read. We’ve been encouraging our Church family to read, and you can...
1 John 1:1-4 Reflection
By Gerry Straker, 09 May 2020The coronavirus is pretty awful isn’t it? But it’s not as bad as some plagues throughout history. The Black Death in the 14th century killed between 70 and 100 million, reducing...
Why do Christians suffer? Part 2
By Gerry Straker, 08 May 2020In our first article, we began to see why Christians suffer... Why do Christians get the coronavirus? Why do Christians struggle with mental health? Why do Christians have hard things happen to them? Wonderfully,...
Why do Christians suffer? Part 1
By Gerry Straker, 07 May 2020A while ago I promised some thoughts on why Christians suffer... Why do Christians get the coronavirus? Why do Christians struggle with mental health? Why do Christians have hard things happen to them? If...
Labour not in vain
By Gerry Straker, 06 May 2020'Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labour is not in vain.' (1 Corinthians 15:58). My mother...
Resurrection
By Ben Petersen, 03 May 20201 Corinthians 15 has been a wonderful reminder of how big a deal it is that God raised the Lord Jesus from the grave. Without the resurrection we don’t even...
1 Corinthians 15 Reflection 2
By Gerry Straker, 02 May 2020In 1 Corinthians 15 Reflection 1 we saw just how important the resurrection is: God will grow us like seeds 15:36-38 God has already created glorious things 15:39-41 We are carrying on where...
1 Corinthians 15 Reflection 1
By Gerry Straker, 01 May 2020Many Christians are confused about what happens after death. Some hymns add to that confusion, for example these words from a hymn I love: 'Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,Take my...
What has Obadiah taught me?
By Steve Sammons, 29 Apr 2020When I first began to prepare to preach on Obadiah, Coronavirus was purely an issue in the Far East. Little did I know the context to which I would preach...
Loneliness
By Sean Tong, 27 Apr 2020BZZZZZZ … the alarm beside my bed rips away the last remnants of sleep as I groggily get up. It’s Sunday. Is it Sunday? It is Sunday. But it’s not...
On reading 4: Reading Classics
By Gerry Straker, 26 Apr 2020In our first article in our series on reading, we saw that the place to start is always the Word of God and it’s been great to hear of some...
On reading 3: We need help
By Gerry Straker, 24 Apr 2020In our first article in our series on reading, we saw that the place to start is always the Word of God and it’s been great to hear of some...
Reading Creation 2 - Thanking God for sunshine, our teacher
By Gerry Straker, 22 Apr 2020Yesterday we thought about how to read creation. As new creations ourselves (2 Corinthians 5:17), we can now see with new eyes the glory of God glowing in the world...
Reading Creation
By Gerry Straker, 21 Apr 2020It has been a gorgeous few weeks weather wise, don’t you think? We want to thank God for the sunshine. But the sunshine is not only an opportunity to thank...
On Reading 2: Reading Changes Lives
By Gerry Straker, 20 Apr 2020Reading is very powerful, it changes lives. ‘An ungodly Welsh clergyman, shopping at a fair in the eighteenth century, bought an article which happened to be wrapped in a page torn...
On Reading 1: Under lockdown or not, Bible first
By Gerry Straker, 17 Apr 2020Psalm 19: ‘The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from...
Resurrection Hope
By Gerry Straker, 13 Apr 2020Everyone’s hopes have been dashed in all sorts of ways whether that’s going away, enjoying the sunshine, or eating lunch with friends. This coronavirus seems to know no boundaries and no...
Serving during Coronavirus
By Gerry Straker, 10 Apr 2020On Good Friday, we think about Jesus the Servant King (Mark 10:45). Jesus’ whole life is serving his death is serving and his rule is serving as he blesses his...
God’s gift of technology
By Gerry Straker, 06 Apr 2020Technology is everywhere; it is utterly inescapable. I am writing this on my desktop computer with a bluetooth keyboard on a desk I put together made by Ikea, under electric...
Mark 15:29-39 Reflection
By Gerry Straker, 05 Apr 2020Right now, it can feel like the world is against us, but Jesus really did have the world against him – even those crucified with him, mock him (32)! Mark’s recorded...
Why we sing
By Jon Lindsay, 04 Apr 2020I really miss meeting with my church family.I really miss eating with my church family.I really miss singing in my church family. When the elders ‘met’ to discuss what church would...
Making the most of the times II
By Gerry Straker, 03 Apr 2020Yesterday, we were reminded that we want to make the most of the times. Here are some of the practical ideas from Wednesday night along with a few new ones. Obviously,...
Making the most of the times
By Gerry Straker, 02 Apr 2020Do you remember before the coronavirus? Can you remember driving? Can you remember the Morecambe Prom? Can you remember there used to be something called ‘sport’? Well at Church by the Bay, before the...
Dealing with Disappointment
By Ben and Caz Petersen, 31 Mar 2020‘If we as a family are making more time for Jesus, he will help us make sense of these strange days we’re living through, he’ll help us feel less disappointed...
Planning time
By Steve Sammons, 30 Mar 2020I love to plan, I love thinking about what the future holds and I love to think about what I’m going to do in light of that. And these things...
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Prayers of Thankfulness
By Gerry Straker, 29 Mar 2020We’ve been thinking about the first thing we should do in response to the coronavirus. In a time of crisis, we should pray. That’s what Jesus does. In a time of...
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Passive lifesaving... active lifesaving
By Martin Peters, 28 Mar 2020This may be a familiar saying to you: 'People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought...
Discipling children during Coronavirus
By Caz Petersen, 28 Mar 2020The first week of #StayatHome is nearly done. How has it been?I just wanted to share a few things happening online to help you disciple your children...‘If we as a family...
More on Prayer
By Gerry Straker, 27 Mar 2020On Wednesday night and in yesterday’s blog we thought about the first thing we should do in response to the coronavirus. In a time of crisis, we should pray. That’s what Jesus...
The first thing we should do in response to the coronavirus
By Gerry Straker, 26 Mar 2020The first thing we should do in response to the coronavirusby Gerry Straker Some of you have been forced to stay at home, with new routines and new ways of spending...
How we can help you
By Gerry Straker, 24 Mar 2020The coronavirus has shaken our normality hasn't it? We're living in a time of uncertainty and anxiety. At Church by the Bay, we want to tell you about the God...
Reflections on Livestreaming Church
By Jon Lindsay, 22 Mar 2020Praise God for this morning's first livestream: it worked! It's been very encouraging to see people's messages and receive phone calls (turns out phones still work!) about this morning's time 'together'....
C3 kids and tots at home
By Gerry Straker, 22 Mar 2020This morning we livestreamed Church for the first time and we heard Mark 14:27-72 read and preached. Wonderfully, Caz our Families Worker has prepared a C3 kids and tots session at...
Resources for Livestream
By Gerry Straker, 21 Mar 2020Tomorrow is our first ever Church livestream. We wish we were meeting together face-to-face but this is the next best thing! Download our resources in advance:Noticesheet and sermon headingsSong words and...
Making the most of isolation
By Jon Lindsay, 21 Mar 2020Making the most of isolation I went to work on Tuesday morning at 7:00. By 8:40 our family had to self-isolate. Having been pretty sure that we’d be fine through this...
Cherish Christ by hearing the gospel
By Gerry Straker, 19 Mar 2020One of our three aims as a Church is that we might cherish Christ by hearing the gospel. It really is not the same as meeting up (see our first...
Our only hope
By Gerry Straker, 19 Mar 2020In this time of great fear and anxiety it is good to know that the Bible's most repeated command is this: 'Do not be afraid'. Do not be afraid of...God....
Coronavirus update
By Gerry Straker, 18 Mar 2020Message from the elders (Church leaders)We have an all-powerful and all-loving God. We are 100% safe in His hands. We need not fear anything at all, and certainly not the...
