Sermon Series - Autumn  2009         St Mark’s MORNING SERIES.  This autumn things are somewhat fragmented due to different events taking place within each month. This October we are going with a request from Saltney Council to hold a civic service. We see this as an opportunity to embrace our community and engage with those who serve it. It will be a great opportunity again to welcome visitors and hopefully to extend the warmth of Christian fellowship. So there will only be three topics on the theme for the year, one in each month, and they will be looking at three parables on the nature of servanthood from Jesus Himself.  As I said at the beginning of the year, in a world that constantly preaches, ‘look after number one first’; the true follower of Jesus needs to have a servant heart, which then opens the door to endless possibilities for God to do things through them. The Lighthouse will be following the Church of England lectionary as they have nearly all their services free of other things

Mornings

6th      Parables “Use it or Lose it!”                                         Matthew 25: 14-30 13th      Parables                      “Watchful Servants”                                         Luke 12: 35-40 20th         Baptism Service         The Relevance of Christian Faith                   TBA       27th        ‘Back to Church’ Sunday                                                                    Luke 15: 11-24*                                                   October   4th      Harvest            “Make Life Flow”                                           John 4: 7-15                             11th      Parables                       “Saying or Doing?                                          Matthew 21: 28-32 18th      Civic Sunday              “If anyone wants to be great…..?”                 Mark 10: 41-45           25th        Baptism Service          The Relevance of Christian Faith                   TBA    November   1st        Parables                       “Hear it and Do it!”                                       Matthew 7: 24-29    8th      Remembrance Sunday Micah 4: 1-5* 15th      Parables                        “Children of The World?”                              Luke 16:1-13 22nd       Baptism Service           The Relevance of Christian Faith                  TBA                  29th      Advent Sunday                                                                                   Matthew 24: 36-44*  EVENING SERIES.  Peter’s letters were written somewhere around AD64 /68 and were therefore written during a time of persecution. The Emperor of the time hated the Jews and included Christians in that. In just a few years the Roman army would destroy Jerusalem and make captives of the population. The issue then for the church leaders at this time was how to encourage believers to persevere and endure. Both letters are aimed at preparing Christians for tough times. But, tough as things were, these letters are full of hope and practical advice on how to go on with Christ and not give up. They tell us how to balance holy living with correct doctrine, to nurture spiritual growth and work within the secular society they found themselves in. These themes are very much still relevant today and provide us with a compass for our own faith journey that will inevitably include some tough times. If you don’t attend the evening normally why not come along and study these letters with us? Evenings September    6th      Peter’s Letters (1) –  “Strangers in the World”                                   1 Peter 1:1-12     13th      Peter’s Letters (2) –  “Called to be Different”```                                 1 Peter 1: 13-25 20th      Peter’s Letters (3) –  “Do I Want to Grow Up?”                                1 Peter 2: 1-12 27th      Peter’s Letters (4) –  “In His Steps”                                                    1 Peter 2:13-3:7                                                    October  4th       Peter’s Letters (5) –  “Bad Things Can happen to Good People”      1 Peter 3: 8-22 11th      No Service – Parish Weekend                                                                        - 18th      Peter’s Letters (6) –  “Christians at Risk”                                          1 Peter 4: 1-19 25th      Annual Bereavement Service                                                              Isaiah 61: 1-3 November   1st      Peter’s Letters (7) – “”TLC for Trying Times”                                   1 Peter 5: 1-14   8th      @The Throne – Chester Churches Worshipping Together                 - 15th      Peter’s Letters (8) –  “The Long Way Home”                                    2 Peter 1:1-11 22nd      Peter’s Letters (9) – “If I Should Die”                                                2 Peter 1:12-21 29th      Advent Sunday                                                                                  1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11* Sermon Series - Autumn 2009          Saltney Lighthouse Community Church September    6th        “Jesus Heals a Deaf Mute”                                                           Mark 7: 31-37   13th      “Peter’s Confession”                                                                         Mark 8: 27-38 20th      “Who is the Greatest?”                                                                      Mark 9: 33-37                              27th       “Overcoming Temptation”                                                                Mark 9: 38-50                                                   October   4tth     Harvest            “Make Life Flow”                                          John 4: 7-15    11th      “The Perils of Riches & The Rewards of Sacrifice”                            Mark 10: 17-31 18th      Join with St Marks                                                                             - 25th      “Blindness and Sight”                                                                         Mark 10: 46-52 November   1st      All Saints Day                                                                                     John 11: 32-44              8th      Remembrance SundayMicah 4: 1-5* 15th      “Troubles and Persecutions”                                                             Mark 13: 1-8 22nd      “Christ the King”                                                                                John 18: 33-37              29th      Advent Sunday                                                                                  1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11

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