Sunday 21st December, 2025 - North Site
Speaker - Ian Shelley
Following the words of Franz Gruber's carol, Silent Night, Ian explores the mystery and wonder of the Christmas story, and reveals the reality of the greatest gift ever given - God loves you.
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John 1 v 1-5
1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2) He was with God in the beginning. 3) Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4) In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
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North site - 21Dec2025
(Note: In an echo of Christmas 2020 and 2021, Ian and his family, who were suffering from a virus, chose to isolate to ensure that he didn't share more than his message. He recorded his preach and shared it with us online. To see his video, head over to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VineyardChurchCardiff)
Sunday 7th December 2025 - West and North Sites
Sunday 14th December 2025 - Central AM & PM
Speaker - Alice Meads
Alice explores the real miracle of Christmas - that God, the Creator of all things, chose to become human, and live among us, His creation. This miracle of God with us is what ultimately will bring the light which will conquer the darkness.
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John 1 v 1-18 (NLT)
1) In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2) He existed in the beginning with God.
3) God created everything through him,
and nothing was created except through him.
4) The Word gave life to everything that was created,
and his life brought light to everyone.
5) The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness can never extinguish it.
6) God sent a man, John the Baptist, 7) to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. 8) John himself was not the light; he was simply a witness to tell about the light. 9) The One who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10) He came into the very world He created, but the world didn’t recognise him. 11) He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. 12) But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. 13) They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
14) So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.
15) John testified about him when he shouted to the crowds, “This is the One I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for He existed long before me.’”
16 From His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another.[ 17 For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is Himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us.
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Recorded at North site - 07Dec2025
Sunday 23rd November 2025 - Central AM & PM
Sunday 30th November 2025 - North Site
Speaker - Matthew Meads
Matt concludes our Life Together series looking at how our calling as those who follow Jesus - the Light of the World - is to be the light for those in darkness around us.
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Matthew 5 v 14-16
14) You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15) Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16) In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Recorded at the North site - 30Nov2025
Sunday 9th November 2025 - Central AM & PM
Sunday 23rd November 2025 - West and North Sites
Speaker - James Rankine
In the latest in our Life Together series, James talks about the Bridegroom's Love - re-affirming the unfathomable love of our Lord for each one of us.
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Revelation 19 v 7 - 9
7) Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8) Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.” (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
9) Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.”
Revelation 21 v 2
2) I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
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Recorded at the North Site - 23Nov2025
Sunday 9th November 2025 - West and North Sites
Sunday 30th November 2025 - Central AM & PM
Speaker - Alice Meads
Alice continues with our Life Together series, looking at the metaphor of the Church as our family.
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Colossians 3v10-14
10) Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. 11) In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile,circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. 12) Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13) Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14) Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.
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Recorded at the West Site - 09Nov2025
Sunday 2nd November 2025 - West Site
Speaker - Mark Crosby
Mark introduces a special event in the life of our church - the baptism of those who have chosen to follow Jesus.
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2 Corinthians 5 v 14 & 17
14) ... Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
17) This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
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Recorded at the West Site 02Nov2025
Sunday 26th October 2025 - West and North Sites
Speaker - Gary Smith
Gary continues with our Life Together series, looking at the way we are all called to be unique parts of the Lord's body.
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1 Corinthians 12 v 12-27
12) Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13) For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14) And so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15) Now if the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16) And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17) If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18) But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19) If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20) As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21) The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’ 22) On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23) and the parts that we think are less honourable we treat with special honour. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24) while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it, 25) so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26) If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it.
27) Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
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Recorded at North Site - 26Oct2025
Sunday 19th October 2025 - West and North Sites
Sunday 26th October 2025 - Central AM & PM
Speaker - Sam Taylor
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Sam continues our "Life Together" series, examining the importance of worshipping together - in so doing we become the Temple for the Lord to inhabit.
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Ephesians 2 v 18-22
18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19) Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20) built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21) In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22) And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
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Recorded at Nort Site - 19Oct2025
Sunday 12th October 2025 - North Site
Speaker - Ellie Welsh
Ellie takes a look at the question "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attentin to the plank in your own eye?" Jesus asked this question of His followers in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Matthew 7 v 1-5
1) ‘Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2) For in the same way as you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3) ‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4) How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5) You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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Recorded at North Site - 12Oct2025
Sunday 5th October 2025 - North Site and Central PM
Speaker - James Rankine
James kicks off our new series entitled "Life Together", explaining how participating in community is part of the Lord's plan for His Church.
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Ephesians 2 v 18-22 (NIV)
18) For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19) Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20) built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21) In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22) And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2 v 18-22 (The Message)
Christ brought us together through his death on the cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility. Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders. He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father. That's plain enough, isn't it? You're no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You're no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He's using us all—irrespective of how we got here—in what he is building. He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he's using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day—a holy temple built by God, all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.
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Recorded at North Site - 05Oct2025
Sunday 28th September 2025 - West and North Sites
Speaker - Alice Meads
For our special Try Church Sunday service, Alice recounts the story that Jesus told that we know as "The Prodigal Son", which reveals the heart of God the Father towards us.
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Luke 15: 11- 32
11) Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12) The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
13) “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14) After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15) So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16) He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17) “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18) I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19) I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20) So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
21) “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22) “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23) Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24) For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
25) “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26) So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27) ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
28) “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29) But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30) But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
31) “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32) But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
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Recorded at North Site - 28Sep2025
Sunday 7th September 2025 - Central AM & PM
Sunday 14th September 2025 - West and North sites
Speaker - Alice Meads
Alice begins our new series examining the value of Small Groups as we launch our new Small Groups season.
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Hebrews 10 v 23-25
23) Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24) And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25) not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Recorded at North Site - 14Sep2025
Sunday 7th September 2025 - West and North Sites
Sunday 14th September 2025 - Central AM & PM
Speaker - James Rankine
James encourages us to adopt a rhythm of behaviour with habits designed - as Paul teaches us in is letter to Timothy - to "train yourselves to be godly"
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will. That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.
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1 Timothy 4 v 7-8
7) Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8) For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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Recorded at West Site - 07Sep2025
Sunday 17th August 2025 - CCAM
Speaker - Dave Pike
Dave continues our series "Questions Jesus Asked" with a look at the question Jesus asked His disciples in Matthew 16 v 13-20 - "Who do you say that I am?"
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Matthew 16 v 13-2013)
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14) They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15) “But what about you?” He asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16) Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17) Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18) And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19) I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 20) Then He ordered His disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Messiah.
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Recorded at Central (AM) - 17Aug2025
Sunday 17th August 2025 - North Site
Speaker - Sam Taylor
Sam continues with our Summer series - Questions Jesus Asked - and takes us through the question He asked His followers towards the end of Mark 8: "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?"
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Mark 8 v 27-38
27) Jesus and His disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way He asked them, ‘Who do people say I am?’
28) They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’
29) ‘But what about you?’ He asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’
Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah.’
30) Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him.
31) He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again. 32) He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
33) But when Jesus turned and looked at His disciples, He rebuked Peter. ‘Get behind Me, Satan!’ He said. ‘You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.’
34) Then He called the crowd to him along with His disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me. 35) For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for Me and for the gospel will save it. 36) What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37) Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38) If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.’
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Recorded at North Site - 17Aug2025
Sunday 10th August 2025 - West Site
Speaker - Alistair Birch
Alistair continues our series Questions Jesus Asked with a look at the passage in Matthew 16, when Jesus asks His disciples "Who do you say that I am?"
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Matt 16 v 13-17
13) When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ 14) They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’
15) ‘But what about you?’ He asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’
16) Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ 17) Jesus replied, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood but by my Father in heaven.”
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Recorded at West Site 10Aug2025
Sunday 10th August 2025 - North Site
Speaker - Alice Le Blond
Alice continues with the series "Questions Jesus Asked", taking a look at the story in Luke 24, when the risen Jesus met the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
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Luke 24 v 13-35
13) Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14) They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15) As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16) but they were kept from recognizing him.
17) He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”
They stood still, their faces downcast. 18) One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
19) “What things?” he asked.
“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20) The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21) but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22) In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23) but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24) Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”
25) He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26) Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27) And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
28) As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29) But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.
30) When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31) Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32) They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
33) They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34) and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35) Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.
Recorded at North Site - 10Aug2025
Sunday 3rd August 2025 - Central AM & PM
Speaker - Chris Lawrence
Chris continues our series "Questions Jesus Asked", looking at the questions He asked in Luke 13 v 18-21: “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?"
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Luke 13 v 18-21
18) Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? 19) It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.”
20) Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? 21) It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
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Recorded at Central Site - 03Aug2025
Sunday 3rd August 2025 - West and North Sites
Speaker - Gary Smith
Gary continues with our Summer series "Questions Jesus Asked", looking at the story of Peter's encounter with Jesus on the beach after His resurrection, as recorded in John 21 v 1-19
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1) Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: 2) Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3) “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
4) Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
5) He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?”
“No,” they answered.
6) He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
7) Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. 8) The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards. 9) When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.
10) Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” 11) So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 12) Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. 13) Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14) This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
15) When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16) Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
17) The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18) Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19) Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
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Recorded at North Site - 03Aug2025
Sunday 20th July - Central AM
Sunday 27th July - West and North Sites
Speaker - Alice Meads
Alice continues with our Summer series "Questions Jesus Asked", looking at the story of Bartimaeus in Mark 10 v 46-52.
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Mark 10 v 46-52
46) Then they reached Jericho, and as Jesus and his disciples left town, a large crowd followed Him. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting beside the road. 47) When Bartimaeus heard that Jesus of Nazareth was nearby, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
48 “Be quiet!” many of the people yelled at him.
But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
49) When Jesus heard him, He stopped and said, “Tell him to come here.”
So they called the blind man. “Cheer up,” they said. “Come on, He’s calling you!” 50) Bartimaeus threw aside his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.
51) “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked.
“My Rabbi,” the blind man said, “I want to see!”
52) And Jesus said to him, “Go, for your faith has healed you.” Instantly the man could see, and he followed Jesus down the road.
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Recorded at the North site - 27Jul2025