How well do you know GOD?

 

If we knew God better, and understood more about his plan for our life, we could cope a lot better with all the ups and downs that we all experience – we would see the bigger picture.

If we knew God better, and understood more about his plan for our world, this would help us be far better partners with him, giving us great joy as we learn how to pray more, and then see God using us to play an important part in the lives of people, locally and globally.

So how do we get to know God better?  Well we can do it our way, and try to work it out for ourselves, using our common sense, wisdom and imagination. But Isaiah 55 says that His ways are as high above ours, as the Heavens are above the Earth. We will never work it out for ourselves. God is just too big.

Better is to do it God’s way: for he has already revealed himself to us: in his Living Word (Jesus) and his Written Word (the Bible).   

But the Bible is not easy to understand! So we tend to just dip in to it from time to time – and  keep to the passages we are more familiar with! The result is that we don’t get the full picture – it’s like seeing only parts of a jigsaw puzzle.

To help all of us get a real overview of the great plan of God, St Tims will be following the E-100 course. That is 100 “Essential” passages from Scripture that will help us see the bigger picture – and help us understand better where we fit in. 50 from the Old, & 50 from the New Testament.

To help us in this, we will be handing out personal study guides to everyone who would like to join in, and our Small Groups will be following E100 group notes. There will also be about 20 sermons, linking in to each theme.

We feel that this is a unique opportunity for us all to build stronger spiritual foundations.  This is vital as we all face the increasing pressure of life today, and the task of being a church in the 21st Century  – a Lighthouse shining in the Storm.

Sunday Service Information

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   Teaching information (Morning Services) 

Audio & text files of sermons @ StTims.org.uk

  
Date 9.30 11.00 6.30   Date Theme R1 R2  
1st Jan   FC EW   1st Jan Presentation of Christ Lk 2.22-38  
8th Jan   FS EW   8th Jan The Visit of the Magi Is 60.1-6 Mat 2:1-12  
15th Jan HC FC EW   15th Jan Creation & Fall Gen 2.15-25 Gen 6.5-22  
22nd Jan MP FS HC   22nd Jan Abraham, Isaac & Jacob Gen 12.1-9 Gen 22.1-19  
29th Jan HC Fresh start EW   29th Jan PRAYER – better than an

Aladdin’s Lamp! 

John 15.5-14  
5th Feb HC FC EW   5th Feb Joseph Gen 37.1-8, 17b-28 Gen 45.1-9  
 
12th Feb   Fresh-start EW   12th Feb Love is an Adventure! Song 2.16-3.5  
19th Feb HC FC EW   19th Feb The Law & The Land Dt 7.12-15,8.18-20 Ezek 36.16-30  
26th Feb MP FS HC   26th Feb The Judges Judg 2.11-3.2 Judg 6.1-16  
4th March HC FC EW   4th March The Rise of Israel 1 Sam 10.17-27 1Kg 3.3-28  
11th March   Fresh-start EW   11th March Spring Time? Lessons of life from mother nature… Mark 4.1-9  
18th

March

 HC FC EW   18th

March

 Mothers Day:  

Families can be hard work!

 1 Cor 13.1-13  Mt 11.28-30  
25th March MP FS HC   25th March The Fall of Israel 1 Kgs 11.9-13 2 Kgs 21.1-18  
1st April   Fresh-start EW   1st April Palm Sunday:

Glimpsing the Glory

 Liturgy of palms  
8th April   FC

10.30am

 EW   8th April Easter:

A matter of Life & Death

 Rom 5.1-11 John 20.1-18