Aug 14, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate
This week, we are continuing with our Partners and Parables series. During this series, rather than a single sermon, we’ll have some input from partner ministers and also a short reflection on a parable from someone from our QPBC Family. This week, we welcome Rachel...
Aug 7, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate
The high-water mark of Christianity in the UK appears to be long gone. Back in 1867, poet Matthew Arnold, struck by the march of scientific rationalism and technological innovation, predicted the “melancholic long withdrawing roar” of the tide of faith, in his famous...
Jul 31, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate
This week, we continue our Partners and Parables series. During this series, rather than a single sermon, we’ll have input from partner ministers and a short reflection on a parable from someone in our QPBC Family. This week, we welcome Susan Tulley, who, given that...
Jul 24, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate
This week, we welcome not one but two guest speakers! For the next few weeks, we are doubling up with updates from partner ministries and preachers from our QP family in our sermon time. So welcome, Lynne Paterson. Lynne was recently appointed Head of Evangelical...
Jul 17, 2025 | Heart of Worship, QPUpdate
Attention is the most prized commodity in the world. Money has value, time is precious, but our fickle focus is hard to win. Vast marketing budgets are expended, and communications strategies are devised simply to pin down our distracted brains on a particular...
Jul 10, 2025 | Heart of Worship, QPUpdate
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, is a well-known and popular phrase and idea. The origin of this saying is believed to be a book, published in 1878, called Molly Brawn, written by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. If this phrase did not appear till the late 19th...
May 22, 2025 | Live issues, QPUpdate
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” So says Hamlet in the classic Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespeare was not wrong. We are often so entranced by what we can measure and see that we overlook the vast spiritual...
May 15, 2025 | Live issues, QPUpdate
Half of Christ’s church, perhaps more, are women. Yet, whilst doors swing open and glass ceilings shatter in the world around us, Jesus’ people remain conflicted about the calling, role and status of women. Consequently, women and girls are offered diminished visions...
May 8, 2025 | Live issues, QPUpdate
Francis Collins is a remarkable man. He’s remarkable for many reasons. He was the lead scientist in the Human Genome Project, he paved the way for several medical breakthroughs by identifying specific genes associated with certain diseases. Until recently, he was head...
May 1, 2025 | Live issues, News, QPUpdate, Teaching series
When Church Hurts It’s the issue that triggered the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation and will, undoubtedly, be the first item in the new pope’s in-tray. I am talking about spiritual abuse, the exploitation of position and power which damages people,...
