Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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John 11: 1-45

 

Faced with growing danger from their religious opponents in Jerusalem, Jesus with the twelve have made a tactical withdrawal to the region across the Jordan. But they don’t get much of a breathing space before a messenger arrives from Bethany with the news that their old friend Lazarus is sick there. 

This leads into the well-known account of the raising of Lazarus. Funerals were large community events and there were plenty of witnesses to spread the news. People reacted in different ways. What did it mean for them? What does it mean for us?

The raising of Lazarus pre-figures Jesus’s own resurrection, but unlike Lazarus, Jesus is not just restored to this life. He passed through death, defeated it, and entered a new kind of life. And it’s better than that - Jesus says that we get to share this new life! Back in John 5:25, he said  ‘Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.’

It’s an audacious claim. The Christian faith centres on a living Saviour, Jesus the Son of God, whose voice we can begin to recognise here as we interact. May we hear God’s voice, individually and as a church, and grow to know more fully the One we are following.   

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Easter services. 

Maundy Thursday, 2nd April 7.00pm

Good Friday, 3rd April 9.00am

Easter Sunday 5th April 9.00am

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Usual weekly services and activities:

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Sunday:        Holy Communion 8.00 am

                       Holy Communion 10am

Monday:       Bible Study 10.00 am 

Tuesday:       Holy Communion 8.30 am

                        Community Garden 9.30 am

                        Christian meditation 9;30-10am alternate Tuesday from

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Wednesday: Bible Study 10.00 am

                        Fortnightly Foodbank   10.00 am

Thursday:      Holy Communion 10.00 am

Friday:            Community Garden 9.30 am

                        

 

1st Tuesday of the month Community Garden BBQ 11.30 am

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Bari Service 11.30 am

2nd Thursday of the month Men's Group 7.30 pm

1st Friday of the month "Come as You Are" - Women's Fellowship 10-12 ​

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