Easter Sunday

Chrissy shared about God being through tough times in her life. Patrick shared about the transformation that God did in his life when he believed in his heart and confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord.

DNA family also shared communion together. There was also lots of snow and some tasty food!

Wailing Wall - Hoping Wall

These photos are from the Good Friday service led by DNA Networks in Colchester town centre (with Salvation Army Band)

Palm Sunday

Mark 11:1-19 - Jesus Triumphal Entry

Rev David Beales referred to Zechariah 9:9 where the events of Palm Sunday were prophesied.

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Jesus in the Temple
* Had an affection for the temple
* Prophesied its destruction
* Reinterpreted the meaning of the temple

Temple in New Testament
Stephen: God does not live in houses made by human hands (Acts 7:48)
Paul
- Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
- Local Church are God's temple
- Universal Church grows into a holy temple in the Lord

So what?
* Jesus cleansed the temple on Monday
* He cleansed us on Friday

Romans 4:25
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

As we enter this week it is time for cleansing and a time for getting right with God. If we are centred in Jesus our sinful nature will be removed.
Are we willing to let Jesus come and thoroughly cleanse us.

Challenge for the local church - Priority for each person in the body of Christ is to find what God's agenda and dreams are.

Jesus has disciples in his 12 who had completely opposite views but he commanded them to love one another!

The call is to - "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (John 13:34)

(Good Friday service: 10:30a.m at the Art Centre followed by a worship time near Eld Lane Baptist Church, opposite Boots)

Creating Healing Communities

Janie Beales shared some thoughts from the book by Earnest Gordon called 'Miracle on the River Kwai'.

• Creating Healing Communities in the most unlikeliest places (as with the POWs in Burma)


• Real Forgiveness


• Become Serving communities - Blessing comes with serving others (John 13:12-17)


• Every generation needs to discover the living God for themselves

Bible verses

'The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many' - Matthew 20:28

John 13:12-17

Philippians 2:1-11

Luke 4: 17-19 (Finger prints of Jesus)

'Many who are first will be last, and the last first'

Sunday, 2nd March

Mark 10: 17-31 (The Rich Young Man)

vs 21: “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”

David Beales said, Jesus asks us to give up our status and take up the cross (sign of shame) and follow Him.

What is our life centered on? On status in society or Jesus?

vs 27: “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”

Challenge: Is my life centered on Jesus?

Promise: If life is centered on Jesus the promise in in vs 30 (receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.)

Mark 10:31

Many who are first will be last, and the last first