Nick spoke yesterday in Dallas at the Council for Life’s annual Celebrating Life Luncheon. His testimony was remarkable: “As a child I never thought I’d be any sort of communicator of hope, because I did not have any hope.  I don’t remember the last time I prayed for a miracle to have limbs, because I know I don’t need limbs, I need peace.  I don’t need limbs, I need purpose.  I don’t need limbs, I need Jesus. And when you have Jesus you have everything you need, because that is the only source of hope.  If you have hope you have everything and Jesus is the hope.”

Commissioning Service at Bethesda ,Rogerstone  on 15th Nov 7pm

Jesus brought a message that spoke to the deepest longings of the human heart to become not simply conformed to a religious subculture but transformed into “new creatures”. instead of focusing on the boundaries, Jesus focused on the centre, the heart of spiritual life. When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus response was simply “Love God, Love people”. He names a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God:” do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to Him?”

John Ortberg (The life you’ve always wanted)

Chris Evans (Islwyn, Labour)  Argoed in my constituency was rocked over the weekend by a particularly gruesome and horrific murder, and I am sure the whole House will join me in extending sympathies to the family of Cerys Yemm, the young girl who lost her life. The Ministry of Justice has launched an immediate investigation into why her killer committed such a serious offence within 30 days of being released. However, reports yesterday said that he could not get a prescription for his paranoid schizophrenia, he was not met at the prison gate and he was referred to a local bed and breakfast, where this horrific murder took place. Does the Secretary of State agree with the need for an urgent investigation into how mental health is treated in prisons and the monitoring of prisoners after they are released?

Chris Grayling (The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice ; Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)   Let us be clear that we all think that what took place was a horrendous incident. I offer my sincere condolences to the family of the victim. I also offer my sympathy to the hon. Gentleman as the localMember of Parliament dealing with this difficult situation. Of course, a serious further offence review is looking at what took place and it would be wrong of me to prejudge its outcome, but it is already clear to me that lessons will need to be learned and that we may need to make modifications to the way the system works in order to try to make sure that nothing as horrendous as this can ever happen again.

Our Discipleship is about following Jesus and learning from him. But who is the Jesus we follow and what can we expect to learn from him?

This topic will be addressed in Keswick 2015 July 11th to 17th

Blaenau Gwent Baptist Church

would like to invite you to the

INDUCTION SERVICE

OF

REVEREND JONATHAN FORMAN

ON

SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2014

AT 2:00 p.m.               Followed by refreshments

The heart of Christianity is about transformation-about a God who isn’t just concerned with our “spiritual lives “but who wants to impact every aspect of living. Its realising that God meets us not in a monastery but on Main street, and that all of ordinary, daily living has the potential to be lived as if Jesus himself were the one living it.

The Life you’ve always wanted  by John Ortberg