With a relaxing of the lock down rules during the Coronavirus crisis the church is able to run services again in the sanctuary, but with a limited number of worshippers. However, the decision to simultaneously continue with the live-stream services online was taken.

Below is the recording of the sermon for this week. Pastor Ray Pountney continues to explain what faith looks like in our lives.

Living in Faith pt. 5: Faith in Vision and in Action – Hebrews 11:1-12 – Rev Ray Pountney – 18th October 2020

• Reflective Hymn & Hebrews 11:1-12

  Be Thou My Vision
   
  Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
  Naught be all else to me, save that thou art
  Thou my best thought, by day or by night
  Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light
   
  Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word
  I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord
  Thou my great Father, and I thy true son
  Thou in me dwelling and I with thee one
   
  Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise
  Thou mine inheritance, now and always
  Thou and thou only first in my heart
  High King of heaven, my treasure thou art
   
  High King of heaven, my victory won
  May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s sun
  Heart of my own heart, whatever befall
  Still be my vision, O ruler of all
  Heart of my own heart, whatever befall
  Still be my vision, O ruler of all

   

  
  By Faith We Understand
   
  1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
   
  3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
   
  Faith at the Dawn of History
   
  4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
   
  5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
   
  7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
   
  8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
   
  New King James Version

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