Courses:
Wembworthy Parish Church
Lent Course 2023 - The Aramaic IV The Lord’s Prayer:
A Reflection in four sessions
Tuesdays from 14th March to 4th April 12 noon to 1.00 p.m.(ish) in the Parish Church
The course will be led by Clive Jobbins and if the debate is good we won’t stop at 1.00 pm so be prepared for a flexible end time. The topic is The Aramaic IV The Lord’s Prayer: A Reflection in five sessions.
The Aramaic words which we will reflect upon are based on Douglas Klotz’ excellent scholarship and will be used as a core text. As I studied them in the past, I was made to think again of the language Jesus spoke and how the words of Lord’s Prayer which we say, comes from the restrictive Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. There is a richness, colour, mystical meaning, and interpretation in the Aramaic words which has been arguably lost to us or only limited to the ivory towers of scholars.
Chulmleigh Parish Church
At St Mary Magdalene Church in Chulmleigh we continue our journey of going deeper with God with our next Alpha Course
Journey with us as we spend time together Starting 25 January 2023
Alpha Course 2023
Alpha is an 11-week course that creates a space where people are excited to bring their friends for a conversation about faith, life and God.
There’s no cost, and no pressure. Just lots of great conversation and space to think.
We will meet at the Rectory, New Street, Chulmleigh EX18 7BY
starting each evening with a shared meal
7pm on Wednesdays 25 January 2023 to 05 April 2023
Away Day Saturday 11 March 2023
Open to All
If you would like to join please contact Tony or Wendy
at alpha@littledartchurches.org.uk
or Tel 01769 581712 for further details.
Chulmleigh Parish Church
At St Mary Magdalene Church in Chulmleigh we continue our journey of going deeper with God with our new course Stepping into the Supernatural
Stepping into the Supernatural
We are continuing to go deeper into our journey with God as we look at, and come to understand, the spiritual reality in which we live.
Over six Sundays at our 10:30 am Worship Services we will explore who we are in Christ and what that means for our everyday lives.
Programme
10 July 2022 - Session 01 Who We Are In Christ
17 July 2022 - Session 02 Living Between Two Realms
24 July 2022 - Session 03 Rich In Christ
31 July 2022 - Session 04 Living With Authority
07 August 2022 - Session 05 Activating Authority
14 August 2022 - Session 06 Practical Steps
Based upon resources presented by Stuart Lees
from Christ Church Fulham and Jesus Ministry
Here is a link to the course videos on the Christ Church Fulham website
Christ Church Fulham - Stepping into the Supernatural
We are recording our services as we journey through the course together and the service videos can be viewed on our YouTube Channel via the link below;
The Little Dart Mission Community - Chulmleigh Parish Church
Everyday Supernatural :
Living a Spirit-Led Life without Being Weird
by Mike Pilavachi and Andy Croft
Sunday 16 Jan 2022 1. The Power is in His Presence
Sunday 23 Jan 2022 2. Being Filled with the Spirit
Sunday 30 Jan 2022 3. God's Power, Our Weakness
Sunday 06 Feb 2022 4. Do Whatever He Tells You
Sunday 13 Feb 2022 5. Everyone Gets to Play: Introducing the Gifts
Sunday 20 Feb 2022 6. Praying in Tongues
Sunday 27 Feb 2022 7. Hearing God Speak,
Part I: Being Sheep
Sunday 06 Mar 2022 8. Hearing God Speak,
Part II: Practising Prophesy
Sunday 13 Mar 2022 9. Praying for Healing
Sunday 20 Mar 2022 10. For the Sake of the World
Sunday 27 Mar 2022 11. Growing in Faith
Sunday 03 Apr 2022 12. Sustaining the Supernatural
Advent Study - Chulmleigh Parish Church
This year we will be journeying through the Bible story together as we light the Advent candles and explore the traditional elements of the Advent Season and their meaning for us today
It will be good to see you as we journey together into the story of the coming of the Messiah and pray blessing over our town, our community and our world
Alpha Course 2021 - Online
From the comfort of your own home
Alpha evening course online
at 7pm on Mondays
07 June 2021 to 16 August 2021
Away Day Saturday 24 July 2021
Open to All
If you would like to join please email
Tony or Wendy
or Tel 01769 581712 for further details.
Alpha is a course over eleven sessions open to all where we will gather together and talk about life and about Jesus Christ and what he means to us and why. It will be a place where questions can be asked and no question will be considered too silly.
It will be a place to get to know each other and understand each other better. And for some it will be a place to begin anew, to see life and our place within it in a new way and that you too can have a fresh start. So come along and join us.
Gentle and Lowly
St Mary Magdalene Church in Chulmleigh will move away from the lectionary to look at a new study over the coming weeks.
On Sunday 13 June 2021 we will start on a new shared teaching series looking at the book “Gentle and Lowly - The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers” by Dane Ortlund.
Christians know what Jesus Christ has done—but who is he? What is his deepest heart for his people, weary and faltering on their journey toward heaven? Jesus said he is “gentle and lowly in heart.” This book reflects on these words, opening up a neglected yet central truth about who he is for sinners and sufferers today.
The study will develop further our understanding and experience of God through Jesus and will build upon our journey through the Old Testament and John Mark Comer's book God has a Name on God’s own description of himself to Moses found in Exodus 34: 4-7.
13 Jun 2021 Introduction
20 Jun 2021 Chapter 1 His Very Heart
Chapter 2 His Heart in Action
Chapter 3 The Happiness of Christ
27 Jun 2021 Chapter 4 Able to Sympathise
Chapter 5 He Can Deal Gently
Chapter 6 I Will Never Cast Out
04 Jul 2021 Chapter 7 What Our Sins Evoke
Chapter 8 To the Uttermost
Chapter 9 An Advocate
11 Jul 2021 Chapter 10 The Beauty of the Heart of Christ
Chapter 11 The Emotional Life of Christ
Chapter 12 A Tender friend
18 Jul 2021 Chapter 13 Why the Spirit?
Chapter 14 Father of Mercies
Chapter 15 His “Natural” Work
and His “Strange” Work
25 Jul 2021 Chapter 16 The Lord, the Lord
Chapter 17 His Ways Are Not Our Ways
Chapter 18 Yearning Bowels
01 Aug 2021 No Service after Chulmleigh Old Fair
08 Aug 2021 Chapter 19 Rich in Mercy
Chapter 20 Our Law-is Hearts, His Lavish Heart
Chapter 21 He Loved Us Then;
He’ll Love Us Now
15 Aug 2021 Chapter 22 To the End
Chapter 23 Buried in His Heart Forevermore
Epilogue
All are welcome to join us. See the weekly news sheet for further details.
God has a name
St Mary Magdalene Church in Chulmleigh will move away from the The Bible in One Year to look at a range of studies over the coming weeks.
On Sunday 17 January 2021 we will start on a new shared teaching series looking at the book “God has a name” by John Mark Comer. This builds strongly upon our time in the Old Testament with an accessible look at who God is through God’s own description of himself to Moses found in Exodus 34: 4-7. In places we will look at the scriptures word by word but with a wonderful depth that John Mark Comer relates to everyday life, including when God says something twice that we should stop and listen.
The teaching series will be in 8 parts:
17 Jan 2021 Prologue:
The God on top of the mountain
24 Jan 2021 Yahweh
31 Jan 2021 Yahweh
07 Feb 2021 Compassionate and gracious
14 Feb 2021 Slow to anger
21 Feb 2021 Abounding in love and faithfulness
28 Feb 2021 Yet he does not leave the guilty
unpunished
07 Mar 2021 Epilogue: Jealous
All are welcome to join us. See the weekly news sheet for further details.
Romans
St James Church Chawleigh will be starting the year with a teaching series on Paul’s letter to the Romans based upon the books by Christopher Ash. The teaching sessions are shared among members of the church as they look at Romans together. Services will be online via Zoom and times will vary as Janet has her curacy placement with Crediton Church. All are welcome to join. See the weekly news sheet for further details.
03 Jan Introduction to Romans - Romans 1:1-15
10 Jan Coming under Grace - Romans 1:16 - 4:25
17 Jan Living under Grace - Romans 5:1 - 8:39
24 Jan The Overflow of Grace - Romans 9:1 - 11:36
31 Jan A Church shaped by Grace -
Romans 12:1 - 15:13
07 Feb Conclusion - Romans 15:14 - 16:27
14 Feb Where to now?
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
We are offering a home group looking at The Ruthless elimination of Hurry: How to stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world by John Mark Comer.
The Home Group will meet by Zoom meeting on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9pm details are available in weekly newsheet.
28 October Session 1 The Problem
Chapter 1 - Hurry: the great enemy of spiritual life
Chapter 2 - A brief history of speed
Chapter 3 - Something is deeply wrong
04 November Session 2 The Solution
Chapter 4 - Hint the solution isn't more time
Chapter 5 - The secret of the easy yoke
Chapter 6 - What we're really talking
about is a rule of life
11 November Session 3 Four practices for
unhurrying your life
Chapter 7 - No 1 - Silence and Solitude
18 November Session 4 Four practices for
unhurrying your life
Chapter 8 - No 2 - Sabbath
25 November Session 5 Four practices for
unhurrying your life
Chapter 9 - No 3 - Simplicity
02 December Session 6 Four practices for
unhurrying your life
Chapter 10 - No 4 - Slowing
The book has been used as the basis for the The Big Church Read which is currently nearing the end of the book and resources including an introductory video are available free to access online
The ideas within the book are also explored further on the Practicing the Way website produced by Bridgetown Church
Practicing The Way is a labor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. We work to compile the practices of Jesus into a practical and accessible resource for all apprentices of Jesus. Bridgetown Church is built around the idea of practicing the way of Jesus, together, in Portland. We believe that to be an apprentice of Jesus of Nazareth is to order your life around three goals: be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. Our dream is that as we live this way, our lives, our communities, and our city, will be transformed. Our prayer is as Jesus prayed, that God’s will would be done in Portland as it is in Heaven.
The Bible in One Year
As we continue on our journey together we will be looking at the whole story of The Bible over the coming year during our Sunday services, Easter 2020 to Easter 2021, with a teaching series and themed services.
The teaching series will use a range of resources including The Bible Project online resources for Bible Study and the Read Scripture Reading Plan which offers a free app for Apple or Android phones/tablets.
www.thebibleproject.com & Read Scripture app https://www.readscripture.org/ available free on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The Prayer Course
We are offering the Prayer Course, an eight week journey through the Lord’s Prayer which started as a Lent Course before Easter but is now continuing as a Zoom meeting on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9pm details are available in weekly newsheet.
19 February Session 1 Why Pray?
26 February Session 2 Adoration
04 March Session 3 Petition
11 March Session 4 Intercession
Now meeting weekly via Zoom see details in weekly newsheet
22 April Session 5 Unanswered Prayer
29 April Session 6 Contemplation
06 May Session 7 Listening
13 May Session 8 Spiritual Warfare
The course information is all free to access on line
We also recommend that you purchase a copy of Pete Greig’s Book How to Pray a simple guide for normal people which gives more detail.
The Letter of James
As we travel through winter we will be looking at the Letter of James together at St Mary Magdalene Church Chulmleigh during our Sunday services in January and February with a teaching series and themed services.
The teaching series will use a range of resources including The Bible Project which offers free online resources for Bible Study.
Grace Course 2020
The next Grace Course will be run in the spring of 2020
There is a charge of £10 for the course which includes the Course Handbook.
If you would like to be involved in either course please contact Tony at rector@littledartchurches.org.uk for further details.
Loud and Clear
Loud & Clear is all about preparing & delivering great talks and services!
We will be offering a brand new four-part course for everyone involved in leading and teaching within our Mission Community. The course is based upon Loud & Clear resources from Soul Survivor and aims to help us to communicate God’s word! Teaching covers how to develop (and stick to) a main focus, how to use the Bible, structuring talks, using illustrations, applying the Bible, and delivery and body language.
Each of the four course sessions begins with a 30 minutes video with an accompanying worksheet for notes and exercises and will run for approximately 2 hours including a light lunch.
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In the Diocese of Exeter
