Gorebridge Parish Church

15/06/2026

This is the first of our audio only messages over the summer. We are training new team members for a return to livestreaming in late August. Until then we pray you get some benefit from our weekly message, this week looking at Hezekiah's healing and how it prefigures the great shadow reversing work of Jesus.

This is the first of our audio only messages over the summer. We ar...

05/06/2026

This week is our June Communion on Sunday morning. We will gather around the story of King Hezekiah again in Isaiah 38-39. After the national threat of the forces of the Assyrian King Sennacherib we explored last week, this week Hezekiah's challenge is more personal - he is dying. Even after Isaiah tells him he must "put his house in order" because God has said his life is ending, Hezekiah prays for healing and God hears his prayer. In the answer to his prayer shadows literally reverse, a wonderful metaphor for Jesus' work on the cross and an encouragement for each of us in our most desparate moment of need, that the Spirit of God will answer us when we pray even when all hope seems lost.

Then in the evening we have our June Meeting Place where we will be laying hold of our true identity in Christ, using some of the materials that have been so helpful in Freedom in Christ. God willing we return to our labours on Monday morning refreshed, renewed, restored and ready for our own ministries at work, in our families and at play.

Please note that, apart from Gala Sunday on 21st June, we are ceasing livestreaming over the summer. We will start back on the 30th August with a renewed and expanded team to continue serving you. Hope to see you in person. If not there are 6 years of livestreams to choose from on our YouTube channel.

30/05/2026

After the fire of Pentecost we come to Trinity Sunday and one of the big set pieces in the Old Testament. It is 701BC and Samaria has fallen to the Assyrian and they are sweeping south. In fear King Hezekiah has made a pact with Egypt. He hopes they will help him defeat King Sennacherib's forces and welcome the assitance of an ally. But there is a problem. God has forbidden his people to make pacts with their old oppressor Egypt, it always leads to evil. So the prophet Isaiah speaks to the truth to Hezekiah in all its terrifying consequences. God will allow his people to be utterly defeated because of his disobedience. Hezekiah could despair, he knows he has done wrong like so many of his forebears, but instead he tears his clothes, puts on sackcloth and repents. How will God respond? Join with us tomorrow to find out.

This will be the last livestream for the summer with the exception of Gala Sunday on Sunday 23rd June. We are so thankful for your support. Livestreaming will return on Sunday 30th August. If you live locally come and join with us 10.45am in person. If you cannot we have an archive of 6 years of livestreaming to choose from. The Lord bless you and see you in the autumn.

After the fire of Pentecost we come to Trinity Sunday and one of the big set pieces in the Old Testament. It is 701BC and Samaria has fallen to the Assyrian ...

24/05/2026

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24/05/2026

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15/05/2026

This week Ian Wells will be taking us through the theme "Praying Through the Night" through the lens of Psalm 134 and John 4.19-25.

This week Ian Wells will be taking us through the theme "Praying Through the Night" through the lens of Psalm 134 and John 4.19-25.Our mission at Gorebridge ...

09/05/2026

We are in Easter season. In Isaiah 26.4 the prophet proclaims:
Trust in the Lord for ever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

The Rock; sure, foundational, immovable, trustworthy. We build our homes out of it and on it. Many of us climb it. It is the very bones of the Earth. Take a few moments to hink of the number of times in the scriptures rocks feature... Got some? There are so many. And tomorrow we will explore them together and see how they encourage us to put our trust in the one true Rock and find our footing in him, even as Isaiah tells us yet again that the dead will rise. The promise is there, written before Jesus' death and resurrection, before God made our salvation a secure city that Psalm 46 speaks of, a place of refuge in a troubled world, the Rock of his presence, our strength and refuge, where we find eternal life, even though the Earth gives way.

We are in Easter season. In Isaiah 26.4 the prophet proclaims: Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.The Rock; ...

02/05/2026

We are in Easter season. In Revelation 1.18 Jesus lays claim to his ownership of the keys of death and hell. They belong to him. In Jesus the judgement foretold in Isaiah 24 becomes the vision of salvation foretold in Isaiah 25. Instead of running and hiding from disaster, instead of hoping to avoid catastrophe, Jesus walks straight towards it to rescue us and fulfil his declaration at Lazarus' tomb, "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11.25). What a saviour! That is why those keys now belong to him and we can declare "death where is your victory, death where it your sting?....thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15.55-56) And Jesus gets to say, "my keys!"

My Keys! (Isaiah 24-25), worship @ GPC 03/05/26

25/04/2026

In chapters 13 and 14 Isaiah is God's mouthpiece to the King of Babylon. God is not pleased. As Isaiah speaks judgement over the pagan King whose imperial forces threaten Jerusalem the language takes a turn. "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!" (14.12) This does not sound like an account of earthly events. God is now speaking of the rebellion behind the fall. Through the prophet God transcends the details of contemporary politics and behind it a darker hand is revealed.

Whilst drones terrorise in the Donbas and the world focuses on the Strait of Hormuz, whilst there is bloodshed and heartache in Sudan and across the African Sahel, behind the destruction of life and the suffering of humanity, behind the wickedness of the warmongers a darker hand is revealed. It has always been this way. These matters seem too weighty for us. How can we contend with such wholesale wickedness and hatred. Jesus said he saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning (Luke 10.18). John said that the reason Jesus came was to destroy the works of the evil one (1 John 3.8). And as we look back to the events of Good Friday we recognise that it is at the cross that the enemy is judged. The moment that secures our freedom is the moment the fallen Morning Star is judged. Our redemption is his condemnation. As for us, moment by moment, by the leading of the Spirit, we are called to live as saints in this broken world, as children of the Father of Lights (James 1.17) in the midst of the darkness. We are vulnerable to temptation but by sheer God given grace we will prevail along with every other life we invite to come and join us.

Morning Star (Isaiah 14), worship @ GPC 26/04/26