Jenny’s funeral has been arranged for Monday 5th October 2015, and all family and friends are welcome.
It will be held at 10:30am
Oakley Wood Crematorium, Bishop’s Tachbrook CV33 9QP.
The wake will be held at 12:00pm
The Granville, Barford, CV35 8DS.
Over the next two weeks, join us as we pray and seek God.
The search for a building doesn’t begin with estate agents and internet searches. The search for our next location shouldn’t begin with crime statistics and financial analysis.
These things are important.
And they’re good.
New uni student at Birmingham? Back for another year of uni?
Come join our Fresher Events after the English Service (starts 9:45am); make some new friends and have some fun!
Sun 27th Sept: THE BIG HOOT LUNCH
After BCEC Sunday, join us as we grab lunch together then explore the city together. We’ll show you the good stuff, the new stuff, and the tasty stuff in Birmingham. Then we’ll go hang out at fellow Uni Students flat. There’s no better way to spend a Birmingham afternoon.
Long time no blog! The summer has been so eventful and as much as I miss the sunshine (where has it gone?!), whilst Autumn is pretty much in full swing, I’m pleasantly glad to be back in my term-time routine.
“Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.”
–Paul Tripp, Dangerous Calling.
Come join us for our Summer Retreat Day on Saturday 29th August.
We have a few awesome things lined up to mark the end of summer with this one-day event…
Taste and see that the LORD is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!
Psalm 34:8 NLT
Growing older increases your chances of your metabolism slowing down. (I’m pretty sure mine stopped years ago!) But I’m like most girls, conscious of their selves: particularly the body shape. There was a postcard meme trending for a while saying “Everybody thinks a girls dream is to find a perfect guy. But it’s actually to eat without getting fat!” I’d say it’s true, I can’t speak on behalf of every girl out there. But it’s true for me! Could it be true for guys too? Perhaps..
After declining the lovely offer to socialise due to a crazy amount of school work that urgently needed attending to, my supervisor/pastor/bert said to me “I’m looking forward to reading some good content on the church blog then!”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
What makes you happy? What gives you pleasure? What’s the difference between happiness and joy? For most of us, “living the dream” is something that was mapped out for us — university, work, marriage, kids — but are those the elements that really make us happy? Even in our pursuit and following of God, sometimes happiness seems so elusive.
Here at BCEC, during March we focus on Missions (not to say we don’t normally. But we like to look more into it this month!)
Occasionally during prayer time I like to pray with scripture in mind. Of course I don’t always remember scripture off by heart (shamefully, I always fail to remember the old memory verses that the Sunday school teachers used to try and drill into us!). So I find having God’s Word in front of me open and ready very helpful during prayer times.
The month of March is probably my favourite month, because at the BCEC we have March Missions Month. And this year we have some great things lined up, with some guest speakers too. But yesterday, we kicked off with Bert’s message which can be downloaded here in case you missed out on a gem of a sermon.
Here at the BCEC, we have baptisms lined up for April 26th 2015. I thought it’d be nice to have one of the teens from our youth group write a blog post on his own experiences and thoughts on baptism. It’s always nice to get a refreshing stance and seeing how far God has moved someone since the process of baptism. Read on and enjoy…
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
Psalm 8:3-4 (NIV)
Are we attempted to be God and control every element in our lives? Or micromanage everything else? Or playing God in the instance of creating babies from three people? Or shouting at each other, or our kids and family members all in the name of love–just to be heard and get our own way? I find it interesting when someone says “Are you following Jesus or are you making Jesus follow you?” Have we just become a generation where it’s me-first and then everyone, and if I have time and I can be bothered, eventually I’ll think about God and pray to Him?
But if I think about it, God went all out for us.