From P. J.: Scripture helps us defend our faith. The apostle Peter instructs believers to be ready with an answer for our hope and faith in Jesus. Scripture also helps form our character. Paul makes it clear that the Word of God is alive, active, and pierces our souls. And since God’s Word is so powerful, we should commit some passages to heart so God can work in and through us?
April 13th – Philippians 4:19 - My God will meet all your needs according to 1God’s glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
The first Easter Fun Finders was on Thursday. There was something like 17 families with over 40 children present. Not a record but not far from it. The only church members present were Helen, Steffie and Peter and we really could do with some more. We go again this Thursday (16th). All you have to do is sit at a table with an activity on it and talk to other people who sit at it.
Today is Holy Humour Sunday. Holy Humour Sunday is a resurrection of an old Easter custom begun by the Greeks in the early centuries of Christianity, as celebrations of Jesus' resurrection on the Sunday after Easter. For centuries in Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant countries, the week following Easter Sunday, including "Bright Sunday" (the Sunday after Easter), was observed by the faithful as "days of joy and laughter,” with parties and picnics to celebrate Jesus' resurrection. Churchgoers and pastors played practical jokes on each other, drenched each other with water, told jokes, sang and danced.
Two cannibals were sitting together, feasting on a clown. One cannibal turned to the other and (looking mildly perplexed) said, “Does this taste funny to you?”
The Kingswood Foodbank is in need of cartons of long-life milk & of fruit juice, tins of meat, toms, veg, potatoes & fish, biscuits, toilet roll and washing up liquid. Thank you all very much.
There is a new exhibition at The New Room, John Wesley and Mindfulness. Explore items from the collection linked to health and wellbeing. John Wesley believed that it was mind, body, and soul that gave somebody good health. Following this holistic approach would lead to living a happy life. John was interested in medicine and natural
remedies. At The New Room, he created a dispensary of free medical care. When John ran out of money to continue this, he wrote a self-help guide to medicine. The Primitive Physic: or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases was published in Bristol in 1747 and became a bestseller for a century.
Lectionary 12th to 18th April. Acts 2.14a,22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1.3-9; John 20.19-31. Knowing together. Peter, a disciple of Jesus, becomes a wise and inspiring leader of the Early Church. He writes to Christians who are living in scattered communities across the eastern Mediterranean area. Peter encourages them to stay faithful in the face of lots of difficulties and persecution. Peter writes to Christians in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who are experiencing persecution, a test of their faith – faith that is clear even without having seen the one in whom they believe. This prompts questions about how we know Jesus. Though we haven’t seen Jesus, we know him. We all have different ways of knowing and growing in our faith. As a church community, we can share our experiences, supporting each other in our journeys of faith.
The purpose of Kingswood Methodist Church is to respond to God's Love in Christ and to live out that love in God's world.