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Buckden Roundabout
May 2019
Church News
Weekly Prayer Roster
Each week during the year the Churches, in their prayers, remember the residents of particular streets in the village, those who
work in the parish and village organisations. Those to be remembered this month are:
5th May
Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows, Playgroup and Day Nursery, Buck-
den out of Schools Scheme, Buckden Towers Youth Retreat Centre
12th May
Mayfield, Springfield Close, The Osiers, Stirtloe
19th May
Vineyard Way, Burberry Road, Swan End, Lark End, The Library and its librarians
26th May
The churches of the village: St Hugh’s, St Mary’s, Buckden Methodist Church, also Perry Baptist
Church, members of home groups from these and other local churches, ministers and all who
make our churches welcoming and worshipful places
STUDY LUNCHES
Study lunches are taking a break, and there will be no study lunches in May
or thereafter until further notice.
For more information contact:
Ann Brittain
on
812012
Thought for the Month
As you all know magazines have to be written, checked and
printed well before distribution day. As I write, we are well
into Lent and soon it will be Easter, so those will be behind us
when you read this. However, the month of May does hold a
place in my heart, for it is then that my wife and I celebrate
our Wedding Anniversary. I will not divulge how many years
that is! Safe to say we are over the seven year itch several
times over. What a disaster that so many couples no longer
seem to go the distance of their wedding vows. They say
nothing lasts for ever!
I would disagree, for we read in scripture that ‘Jesus Christ is
the same yesterday, today and forever’. (Hebrews 13: 8). I
actually based my sermon on this verse the last time I
preached at our Church. We find that in this ever-changing
world, one thing is constant in that neither God, Jesus Christ
or the Holy Spirit change. In fact we also used H.F. Lytes’
hymn with the words ‘Change and decay in all around I see; O
Thou who changest not abide with me’. It is something that I
feel we all should know.
A professor of philosophy at London University, C.E.M. Joad,
was not a Christian. When asked on a radio programme, “If
you could meet any person from the past and ask them just
one question, whom would you meet and what question
would you ask?” Professor Joad answered without hesitation:
“I would meet Jesus Christ and ask him the most important
question in the world – ‘Did you or did you not rise from the
dead?’”.
There came a day in Professor Joad’s life when he assessed
the evidence, encountered Jesus himself and wrote a book
called, Recovery of Belief. If Jesus Christ is risen from the
dead, this changes everything.
When the New Testament writers speak of God’s love they
point to the cross. When they speak of God’s power they
point to the resurrection. God’s ‘incomparably great power’
was ‘exerted in Christ when he raised him from the
dead’ (Ephesians 1:19–20). The risen Jesus says to his disci-
ples, ‘All authority (all power to rule) in heaven and on earth
has been given to me’ (Matthew 28:18, AMP).
The resurrection means that the risen Jesus is present with
you now. Jesus continues, ‘I am with you always’ (v.20).
The result of the resurrection is not only his power and his
presence but also his provision.
So, nothing changes as Jesus is with us always! I pray that we
all may know this truth!
With all Blessing in Christ.
Tony Whitlock, Perry Baptist Church.