We give you a warm welcome on this Fathers’ Day. It’s great to be able to celebrate and honour our dads! As with mothers, being a father is more than just having a name on an offspring’s birth certificate, it’s about a whole list of things: unconditional and ceaseless love; sharing time together and just…

Today is our vision day. In case you’re wondering what that really means for us, it’s about looking forward! It’s true that we are taught by Jesus to live in today; it’s the only day that is guaranteed. However, He isn’t saying not to think about tomorrow; just don’t worry about it along the way.…

This week we are focusing on our last core value, looking at the topic of relationship. It’s by no means the least of our values; if anything, it is the most important one because it is out of our relationships that everything else finds its place: we are called to community through relationship; committed to…

Maybe you’ve come in this morning feeling absolutely on top of the world: I encourage you to give thanks to God for that, as we engage in worshiping Him. Perhaps you feel like you’ve got the weight of the world on your shoulders: again I encourage you to enter into that intimate place of worship.…

Today we are looking at our second core value: ‘challenged to grow’. Growth is an interesting phenomenon: we tend to think that it happens of its own accord, but nothing in God’s creative plan is random. Even those annoying daisies and dandelions, that mess up the look of our lawns, happen because seeds found their…

Today we come together to worship, encourage, learn and bless as a church community here in Clitheroe. Over the next four weeks we will be revisiting our four values, designed to inspire us both practically and spiritually. They are: called to community, challenged to grow, centred in Christ, connected in relationship. We feel that these…

Today we have a precious and potentially life-changing opportunity to worship and focus on the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible calls Him the ‘author and finisher of our faith’ (Hebrews 12:2). As we know, people have faith in many things. Even as Christians, we can find ourselves being side-tracked into putting our hope into a whole…

While we get ready to launch ourselves into our time together this morning, I want to ask a simple question that might just impact how our day unfolds. It’s this: ‘What are our expectations today?’ ’If you’re struggling to think of anything specific, that’s okay; something may come to mind later on. Here’s a slightly…

It’s always great to be together in one place to worship the Lord Jesus Christ! We sometimes talk about ‘holding’ worship or ‘attending’ worship, and most of us have an opinion of what makes ‘good’ worship. This kind of language can be something of a problem because the overall implication is that worship is somehow…

Last Sunday was one of those days that I’m sure I will always remember; it’s always awesome to see people go through the waters of baptism and declare their commitment to Jesus so publicly and so profoundly! For me, there were so many aspects of the day that emulated the church we read about in…