Make it a double!

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...
The River of Life

The River of Life

Jun 12, 2025 | QPUpdate

The River of Life This Sunday, we are going to be thinking about God’s life-giving river. The Bible is full of invitations through rivers. Rivers are powerful, and when they are flowing, they produce currents. Currents are usually strongest when they are near the...
Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost Sunday

Jun 5, 2025 | QPUpdate

Pentecost Sunday This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. Taken from the Greek word for fiftieth, Pentecost takes place on -yes, you’ve guessed it- the fiftieth day after Easter. On Pentecost we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the power he gives to each follower of...
Grow in the grace of giving

Grow in the grace of giving

May 29, 2025 | News, QPUpdate

This is not a begging letter, it is an invitation to grow. A Generous heart is a fundamental feature of Christlikeness and therefore it is central to our discipleship. Learning to give, big-hearted and God-guided is not about what we want to extract from you but what...
There are more things in heaven and earth

There are more things in heaven and earth

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...