Life Church Malvern

25/12/2020

Happy Christmas everyone. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a blessed and joy-filled new year. God bless you.

19/08/2020

Devoted Online - 30 August 2020 - at a Church near you, here on Facebook or on our YouTube channel. Find out more: https://cccw.onl/3gRz41M

19/08/2020

Hi everyone, just to let you know that I will be running the second of my 2020 10K races this weekend. Having completed the Virtual Durham 10K last month, this time it's the Virtual Newcastle 10K!

Really happy to have raised £155 (not including Gift Aid) so far, but still a long way short of the £500 target. Please give whatever you can - every penny raised for Diabetes UK will make a huge difference. (If you can't/don't want to pay online, let me know and we will find a solution! 🙂)

Help Tim Silk raise money to support Diabetes UK

18/05/2020

For anyone who's interested, feel free to check out the BCDO YouTube channel this weekend

CHECK IT OUT! This Bank Holiday weekend is going to be unmissable🤩

04/05/2020

How are you all keeping? Just a few weeks ago attending the YMCA centre on a Sunday morning for worship was as regular as my daily bowl of cornflakes. Now we are in lockdown and prevented from meeting each other except virtually. Of course this coronavirus affects us whatever age we are. My teenage granddaughter was near the end of her schooldays waiting for the climax by collecting a certificate to indicate the high grades she was successful in obtaining in her “A” level studies Now that has all changed My elder daughter is unable to benefit very much from the protection measures announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. People above 70 will probably face a longer period in isolation as they are a bigger risk health wise. It is such a shame that with the ceanothus, the azaleas, the rhododendrons not to mention the woodland bluebells all at their best at the moment yet not available to be seen by all. These cases are an inconvenience –imagine how one would feel if one of your relatives were one of those who have lost their lives due to the virus.

Amidst the gloom Easter was upon us. What a confusing time for the disciples after Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem is recorded in all four of the gospels. “Hosanna to the Son of David” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” Cloaks were spread in the road – a royal homage. Yet four chapters later in Luke and Mark Jesus was crucified on a cross outside the city wall – a place of disgrace. The church talks I heard last Sunday were based on the walk to Emmaus Can you imagine the confusion the sense of despair and defeat they must have felt?! Luke 24 tells us their faces were downcast “he was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God” How could it be possibly in God’s plans to allow Jesus to die in such a shameful way? Then of course their eyes were open and they saw Jesus. Their whole mood changed! We could so easily be bogged down with the fear of this virus the fear of the impact it could have upon our daily lives. We have a loving Saviour who has promised never to leave us or forsake us whose love for us is unconditional and personal – and reigns for evermore!

I can now attend a number of services without jumping in the car or walking anywhere- In the Anglican church the theme of today’s services is on Jesus being the Good Shepherd The previous verse says “I have come that they may have life and have it to the full” or have it more abundantly as the authorised version says. It has to be realised that a shepherd in Jesus’s day lead from the front and the sheep followed So although the path may be stony and difficult to navigate we must continue to focus and stay in touch with our Master Lord Jesus ahead of us and not be distracted by fears and anxieties caused by this coronavirus and its possible effects Jean’s favourite hymn is “O Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end; Be thou for ever near me my Master and my Friend; I shall not fear the battle if thou art by my side, nor wander from the pathway if Thou wilt be my guide” rather quaint language but the sentiment is good. – James Hall

03/05/2020

I'm sure this song has been a blessing to many of us recently, but this version must be one of the best.

God bless you.

Our buildings may be closed, but the church is alive! Check out The Blessing UK video - be blessed as you watch it and bless the nation as you sing it out ov...

02/05/2020

Hi everyone, hope you are keeping well.

If, like me, you've lost track of what day it is, today is Saturday, which means that tomorrow morning we will again be joining with Hope Church Worcester for their online Sunday service starting with worship at 10:45am. If you are not yet part of the Hope Church Facebook group, let one of the leaders (of Life Church) know and we will add you.

In the meantime, allow me to highly commend Louie Giglio's latest sermon to you. He asks a very pertinent question for these days, and his answer is definitely worth consideration and prayer.

God bless you and keep you. As always, if you need any help or have any prayer requests, please get in touch. Your church family would love to help you, and pray for and with you!

This probably isn't how you imagined your year would look. Chances are you didn't anticipate a global pandemic, a shelter-in-place order or having to spend e...

12/04/2020

Then came the morning that sealed the promise,
Your buried body began to breathe.
Out of the silence, the Roaring Lion
declared the grave has no claim on me!

Jesus, Yours is the victory!

12/04/2020

"I for one am an expert at losing things and absolutely terrible at finding them again. Every time I lose my phone or purse or keys I have to ask someone to help me find it (usually my very patient and gracious husband who immediately knows that the object I'm looking for is right in front of me, of course). As a child, I lost objects so often that my mum ended up fining me and my brothers 50p every time she had to take the sofa apart and move the furniture around the living room to look for the TV remote.

I cannot find objects once they're lost. Every Easter Sunday, my parents would set up an Easter egg hunt for my brothers and me. I remember my brothers would always find the eggs super quickly, especially my older brother. I would be left looking for the last few eggs ages after my brothers had started either chomping away at their stash of chocolatey goodness, or had stored it away for another time. I would search the whole house and garden and would often need to ask for clues.
Anyway, this got me thinking. The Bible has several stories about losing and finding things.

Luke 15:8-10 says: "Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbours together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

When finding things, I might give up and ask for help. But God, like the woman in the parable, never gives up his search for his people. To God, they are too precious to give up on. You are too precious for God to give up on you.
The Bible as a whole tells a story of reconciliation, of God finding ways to restore his people back to him. He even sent Christ Incarnate to die on a cross and raised him back to life again. Now we can freely be reconciled to God if we choose. And when someone returns to God, there is a celebration in heaven for what was lost has been found.
God is searching for you. Will you accept him into your life this Easter?

I love the words of the hymn, Amazing Grace:
"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see""
- Immy, Children's and Community Worker