Category: John’s Gospel

Talks from John’s gospel

The Word became Flesh

14th November 2018

Next week we start our Advent series. We will be going slowly through one of the most beautiful and rich passages in the Scriptures – the opening to John’s Gospel. Many of us may well be familiar with this passage from Christmases past. For example: John 1 is the final lesson every year at Carols from Kings.

 

21 Nov           In the beginning                           John 1:1-5                 Sam Bostock

28 Nov           The true light                              John 1:6-14               Frank Sellar

5 Dec             The Word became flesh                 John 1:15-18              Steve Auld

12 Dec           God made known                          John 1:19-20             Steve Auld

Each week will feature a Bible reading and a 20 minute talk over lunch or a hot drink.

Everyone working in the city centre is very welcome to join us on Wednesday lunchtimes from 1:10-1:45pm, in the restaurant of the Clayton Hotel Belfast 22-26 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, BT2 8HS.

(On entering the building turn left, you’ll find us at the far end of the restaurant.)

Sandwiches and hot drinks are available (suggested donation £3).

 

Please feel free to share this with anyone you know who may be interested in coming along.

What on earth are we doing?

31st August 2016

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What on earth are we doing? It’s a question any thinking person asks themselves from time to time. It’s a question that we can often find ourselves asking about our working lives. And it’s also a question we’re bound to be asking as the Gospel in the City network begins its life. What on earth are we doing?

Those are questions that the Bible can help us with. In our first talk series at Gospel in the City we’re going to be looking the answers Jesus Christ gives in John’s Gospel. In chapter 15 Jesus is spending his final evening with his closest followers before his arrest and execution. Facing life without their leader, Jesus’ friends are asking exactly this question: what on earth are we doing?

Jesus comforts his friends by giving them an image that would become famous: of a vine and its branches. As we seek to understand what Jesus meant, we’ll explore what it means to live fruitful lives and how all of that might apply to our working lives in Belfast.

Hope you can join us!

  • 21st Sept – What on earth are we doing being Christians?
  • 28th Sept – What on earth are we doing at work?

Wednesday lunchtimes, 1:10-1:40pm, upstairs in Caffè Nero, Fountain Street. Sandwiches available (suggested donation £3).

Image adapted from MarkDoliner on Flickr, by permission.