Helions Bumpstead Gospel Hall

Tag: Easter

  • Helions Activities And Covid-19 (CORONA-VIRUS)

    Update – 23/05/2021 – The situation with the Corona-virus is improving, however there is still uncertainty regarding what Stage 4 of lock-down releasing means and When it will come into effect. At present we are in stage 3 and following government guidance on how we may be able to hold events at the gospel hall. Unfortunately that has meant that many of our events are still cancelled and we are needing to think carefully about how and/or when they can be restarted. If you have any questions about events, please contact us and we will get back to you. We are encouraged that we can take these matters to God in prayer during these very difficult times, knowing that He is in control of all things, and that He knows the future.

    As you are aware, the coronovirus is currently spreading within the United Kingdom. We are aware that those most at risk are those aged 60 and above, especially if they have underlying health conditions. We will be praying for those who are at risk and who may be affected, as well as those who have to make the decisions about how to respond to this. We have decided to make changes to our meetings and activities over the coming weeks and months. These changes are:

    • Saturday Night Monthly Ministry Meetings – We are currently holding these virtually using zoom. Our next meeting will be shown in the calendar here. If you would like more information please contact us.
    • Explorers – Both weekly Explorers and Super Sundays are cancelled. Please keep an eye on here and our Facebook page for updates.
    • Tea ‘n’ Tots – We are not currently holding these weekly, however we are looking to hold some picnics. Please look at the Facebook page for Tea ‘n’ Tots, for more details and the dates for these.

    We appreciate that many people will miss having regular teaching meetings, both at Helions Bumpstead Gospel Hall and other places. We would like to draw your attention to our online library of teaching recorded at the Gospel Hall. You can access this using the link below.

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  • Spring from Christmas to Easter

    As I start to write this article, we are preparing for the birth of a new grandchild.  I have a bag packed, ready to travel to Colchester with minimal delay to look after our two year old grandson, when my daughter goes into labour.  It is not long since Christmas time, when we were remembering the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ whose grandparents did not seem to be involved, even though potentially they too may have had to travel to Bethlehem to be taxed around that time.

    A Baby in a manger

    A Baby in a manger, in a stable sweet with hay,
    made the animals around Him and the trough in which He lay,
    all the visitors and angels, were the work of His great hands,
    as the star that showed His presence to wise men from distant lands,
    yet those tiny little fingers were quite swaddled close in bands,
    which hid from sight His greatness and those wonder-working hands,
    but years later made fine carpentry, healed blind folk, sick and lame,
    before nails held Him to a cross. He died but rose again! FCG

    “I am the Lord who makes all things.”  Isaiah 4:24

     In January we made this small snowman with my youngest grandson, but we had run out of carrots. It lasted a few days, but has now melted away.  God made the first man Adam, and the first woman Eve, from whom we have all descended through their children; Cain, Able, Seth etc. but we have unfortunately inherited their ability to disobey, or sin, too.

     

    It is not an easy thing to give birth to a child.  It wasn’t an easy thing either for the Lord Jesus Christ, as a young adult in his early thirties to be crucified on a cross.  He was held on the cross by nails, through His hands and His feet, but held there too, by His love for us, as He suffered and died, taking the punishment for our sin, i.e. all that we have done wrong, on Himself so that we can be born “into His family.” It may not be an easy thing for us to benefit from what Jesus did for us, as it is hard for us to confess that we have failed in any way, but we all have, for instance…

    As a driver, in a thirty mph speed limit, it is so easy to go over thirty mph, maybe without realising it.  Yet in doing so, we have inadvertently sinned, and unfortunately one sin is enough to keep us out of heaven.  If we admit we have done wrong, God will forgive us!

    The months between Christmas and Easter are the time of year when new lambs are born. It is a very good time for us too to be born again, but this time into God’s family forever!
    “Supermarket offers have dates of expiry,
    as God’s offer, also does too,
    it takes less than a minute, to trust Him,
    repenting, the best thing forever, to do!”

    Our family’s late January baby; Scarlett Celia, has eventually been born!

    We are now coming up to Easter, when we remember that Jesus, also called ‘The Lamb of God’, rose again from the dead, after taking our punishment on the cross! We can believe He did, and we will be eternally grateful.

    “What must I do to be saved?” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”Acts 16:31

     

    Incidentally, the space inside an Easter egg denotes the empty tomb from which Jesus rose again!

     Spring has arrived!

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