The Great Winslow Bake Off

This Sunday (18th Dec 2016) will be our Christmas family service. We're using the Bake Off theme as a way into the Christmas message. How do you find a link between those two things? Come along and find out. The service is open to everyone, its for children and for adults. There will be cake to eat (how could we not have cake at a Bake Off themed service?), there will be fun to enjoy, and there will be a message to think about!

We'll be at our normal place (Furze Down School, Verney Road, Winslow, MK18 3BL) at our normal time (10:30am)

Come, see, eat and think!

Handling the shock

Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear
and celebrate his rule with trembling.
Psalm 2:10-11

A New Home for Winslow Christian Fellowship

From this Sunday (4th September) onwards, Winslow Christian Fellowship will be meeting in Furze Down School. We're grateful to God for the his provision of the Winslow Centre over the past 20 years. The centre has been a great home for the church, but the time has come move on.  Now, God had provided us with a new meeting place that fits our needs brilliantly.

This new venue also places us in a part of Winslow that is relatively new and growing. My prayer is that the people who live on the Glade, and those who will move into the houses that are yet to be built, will come to see WCF as their church, and that WCF will serve the people of the estate as all churches should serve their communities.

Apart from the venue everything else is the same: 10:30am every Sunday morning, all are welcome!

Fully God, Fully Man

Here's a song that fits well with our current series on Philippians 2

EU Referendum

If you're struggling to decide how to vote on June 23rd you may find the CARE website helpful. Without taking a line one way or the other they look at the issues from a Christian perspective. This includes the case for Brexit outlined by David Burrowes and the case for Remain outlined by Stephen Timms. Both David Burrowes and Stephen Timms are Christian MPs.

Visit the CARE page here.

Growing in sin?

I've been reminded of a picture I saw in a book once about the Christian life. It illustrates how walking with Jesus in our lives makes us aware of our sin. That might lead to an increased holiness, but we don't always notice the positive changes, because our progress is marked by an even greater increase in awareness of sin.

The green line shows our level of holiness, gradually increasing as we get to know Jesus better. The red line shows our awareness of our own sin, also growing as we get to know Jesus better, but at a steeper rate. After all, awareness of sin has to come before the changes that increase our holiness. 

The awareness is usually the thing that pushes us to the cross when we first become a Christian, when we realise that only Christ's death and offer of forgiveness can deal with the gap between what we are and what we know we should be. But the problem comes as the gap grows. Often the picture looks like this.

Our sense of sin has grown, but our view of the cross has not. We've started well by trusting in Jesus, but the cross alone doesn't seem enough. So we try to close the gap in our own strength and by our own works. That will never work. What we need to do instead is increase our understanding of the cross.

Just as we start the Christian life at the cross, so we continue, day by day, coming to the cross as we regularly face the bleak reality of our continuing sin and failure.

We all need to come back to the fundamentals again and again to remember that Jesus is our everything, his cross is sufficient. There is nothing bad enough that I have done that the cross cannot handle.

Behold Our God

Here's a great song I think we ought to be singing at WCF: