Every year, during Lent and Advent we invite you to join us for a free series of four weekly online study sessions via Zoom.
Lent 2025: Turning Points
For Lent 2025 the Rev Rob Hilton will present our annual series of 4 online study sessions. Under the series title Turning Points Rob will explore the moments in Mark’s Gospel which took Jesus to the cross and beyond.
- Wednesday 19th March 10.30am. Blind Bartimaeus – What did he actually see?
- Wednesday 26th March 10.30am. The pain of communicating – Jesus’ invitation to take up the cross
- Wednesday 9th April 10.30am. ‘Let the children’ – radical inclusion
- Wednesday 16th April 10.30am. Resurrection is just the start – the Möbius strip approach to Mark
The details for each Zoom session are:
https://zoom.us/j/97608787997?pwd=XgLmZLuEDcI0b7cvx6MhpANWGyxrEe.1
Meeting ID: 976 0878 7997
Passcode: 446193
As lessons take place we post them to this page for the benefit of those unable to attend.
Advent 2024: Rejoice In Our Advent Hope?!
2024’s series of Advent study sessions ran from 27th November for the following three Wednesdays until 18th December, and provided a lovely opportunity for participants to meet and share with people from other churches (or none) in a welcoming, informal and open atmosphere. Tim Macquiban led us in reflecting on what it means to live the joy of the Gospel in everyday life, experienced in the darkness and fears of our lives as well as in the light of the hope of peace in a justice-seeking community.
Tim Macquiban is an active supernumerary minister serving Saughall, a former Primitive Methodist chapel in the North Cheshire circuit. He was formerly: Research Director of the Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism; a member of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies; and has taught in colleges and universities in Rome, Cambridge, Salisbury, Oxford and Bristol.
The four sessions were:
- Wednesday 27th November 10.30am. The Hope That Delivers Us From Darkness
In this session Tim looked at: Psalm 130, Isaiah 60: 1-3 and 19, and the Charles Wesley hymn Come Thou Long Expected Jesus. - Wednesday 4th December 10.30am. The Hope That Brings Joy
In this session Tim looked at: Lamentations 3: 21-26, and the Charles Wesley hymn All Glory To God In The Sky. - Wednesday 11th December 10.30am. The Hope That Dispels Fears
In this session Tim looked at: Romans 15: 4-6, and the Charles Wesley hymn Away With Our Fears. - Wednesday 18th December 10.30am.The Hope That Brings Peace
In this session Tim looked at: Isaiah 9: 6-7 and the Charles Wesley hymn Rejoice The Lord Is King.