Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Aug 21, 2025 | Partners and Parables, QPUpdate

Five hundred people from around 45 churches packed in to our “Quiet Revival – what’s going on?” event on Sunday evening. There is clearly a huge appetite to explore and respond to the increasing evidence of an upturn in people investigating Christianity in the...
Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

The Friend at Midnight

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...
Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

The Turning of the Tide?

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...
Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Ready & Willing

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...
Quiet Revival – what’s going on?

Make it a double!

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...
Pay attention to this.

Pay attention to this.

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...
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Beauty

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...
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Your God is too safe

Jul 3, 2025 | QPUpdate

“This is a safe place,” We say it glibly, introducing Christian community and even worship these days. I know what we mean and I get the point, nevertheless I wrestle with this turn of phrase. Why? Because God is not safe. Of course, God is good, faithful and true and...
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Worship training

Jun 26, 2025 | QPUpdate

“Hand me another cable-tie” is the strange expression you will often hear in our garden. We have a small plot, so much of our gardening is of the vertical variety. Anne is an expert in all things trailing and climbing clematis, wisteria, rambling rose, and even a...
Making a Splash

Making a Splash

Jun 19, 2025 | QPUpdate

Last night was our ACM (Annual Church Meeting) and it was great to meet as God’s people to reflect on the year just past and look forward to the year ahead. Alan Loach put together for us a wonderful video to remind us of some of the things as a church we were...