Hello and welcome to a new feature of our worship blog! This feature will hopefully give you a chance to meet and learn more about some of the individuals who are involved in leading worship across our various ministries at JCC. We begin this week with Pete Cowley, who oversees our worship team, while also…
Day 35 of 40 days of devotion Written by an anonymous blogger My devotion is involving God more in my marriage. A week in and my husband and I had a massive argument, he unkindly told me what I needed to hear. I knew it was the truth as he never lies. I worked through…
Day 34 of 40 days of devotion Written by Dave Rowsell Last weekend I ran my first Half Marathon in 30 years. Nothing that remarkable, other than only two years ago I had just embarked on a ‘couch to 5k’ journey and was struggling to run for more than 5 minutes at a time. I…
Day 33 of 40 days of devotion Written by Rod Standing ‘Yet I hold this against you. You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.’ Rev. 2: 4-5. As the years pass, and opportunities to reminisce and to dream dreams…
Day 32 of 40 days of devotion Written by Abi Cowley I started 2018 on a roll in terms of spending time with Jesus. I was regularly getting up early, reading my bible, praying, hearing from God…and then I got ill…and then one of my daughters got ill…and then another. To be honest by the…
Day 31 of 40 days of devotion Written by Alan Mathers The Anglican lectionary gives a Psalm for every day. I‘m familiar with them also in Sunday Worship. Most of them are David’s. David was an accomplished musician and song writer with a brief spell as Court Musician under Saul. Here are some thoughts on…
Day 30 of 40 days of devotion Written by Mark Berry Great! I thought. A season of devotion can be a focus for getting me fitter in body and soul. And so it’s proved; listening to the Bible in One Year and worship CDs on my journey to work each morning is certainly more edifying…
Day 29 of 40 days of devotion Written by Erik Buren One of the phrases recurring during these weeks is: “We are devoted to God, because He is devoted to us.” If you search the Old Testament for the word “devoted”, you’ll find that there are different words in Hebrew that have been translated into…
Day 28 of 40 days of devotion Written by Pete Cowley I decided to share a verse a day on Facebook during 40 days of devotion. This encouraged me to dig into the bible for personal reflection, share scriptures from personal times with God, devotional time with our daughters and whatever I felt the Holy…
Day 27 of 40 days of devotion Written by Joan Gaddas Recently, our community group leaders were asked to volunteer to do a 10 min talk at our next cluster meeting on one of 3 topics. I volunteered for “what Jesus said”!! How foolish was I to do that I thought! How can you condense…