BH Bulletin - Tuesday 3 November 2020

Thought for the Day by Stephen Demetriou
​(Youth Minister)

​This is a prayer John Stott used to say most mornings:
Good morning heavenly Father,
good morning Lord Jesus,
good morning Holy Spirit.
Heavenly Father, I worship you as the creator and sustainer of the universe.
Lord Jesus, I worship you, Saviour and Lord of the world.
Holy Spirit, I worship you, sanctifier of the people of God.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence
and please you more and more.
Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.
Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life:
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God, have mercy upon me. 
Amen.

Isn’t that wonderful!?
As you may have guessed; It’s a prayer I’ve started praying most mornings!
And it’s a prayer I’d love you to pray most mornings too.

It reminds us that the God we worship, is the Triune God.
1 God existing eternally as 3 distinct persons. Father, Son and Spirit equally and fully God.
And this doctrine of the Trinity makes all the difference in the world.
Tim Chester wrote:
The doctrine of the trinity is central to how we know God, how we can be rescued from sin, how we understand the life and mission of the church, and even what it means to be human.
 
Athanasius one of my Church Father heroes wrote in a creed:
Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic* faith; 
Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. 
And the catholic* faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity;
I mean, that makes the doctrine of the Trinity pretty significant right?!
 
The Trinity is who our God is. The Trinity is why we were made. The Trinity is how we are saved. The Trinity is where we heading. The Trinity is even what our church life should be modelled on!
 
So, how well do you know our Triune God?
Can I encourage you to get to know Him better?
Here are 3 simple ways:
 

1. Read John 17 (over and over! – it’s a beautiful insight into life in the Godhead!)
2. Use this prayer daily from John Stott
3. Put these books on your Christmas list (both helpfully titled the same thing!)
   1. Delighting in the Trinity – Tim Chester
   2. Delighting in the Trinity – Michael Reeves

 
(*catholic means entire or whole)
​Stephen

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Wanted!

                 Christmas Presents for Patients at Millview Hospital
We've been asked if we can help out by giving Christmas presents to the 90 patients at Millview hospital.
We need to collect them at church over the next two weeks (so there's not long), with a final collection on 22nd November.
We need:
snuggly blankets (not knitted as they can be unpicked), pyjamas and slippers or warm socks
Then we need to wrap them (but no string or ribbons please, and only short bits of sticky tape), and then write a label for the outside with details of what's inside (including sizes if appropriate)
Please bring them to the Church Office and place them in the appropriate basket in the next couple of weeks.
​Thank you.

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