Pastor Phil Dixon will take the morning service on Sunday, April 28, starting at 10.45am. Children's groups are available during the sermon including a creche for accompanied children aged three and under.
A stream of the service will be available in the creche room. Tea and coffee is available after the morning service.
Phil will also take the evening service which starts at 6.15pm.
All are welcome to both services.
Jeff Mason will be the speaker on Sunday, April 21 at 10.45am. He will speak on Mark 10 32-45.
Children's groups are available and there is a creche for accompanied children aged three and under with a live stream to the sermon. It will be followed by tea and coffee.
Leah Ellis will be the speaker at the evening service which starts at 6.15pm. All are welcome at both services.
Brian Johnson will be the speaker on Sunday, April 14 at 10.45am. He will speak on Mark 10 17-27; 12: 28-34.
Children's groups are available and there is a creche for accompanied children aged three and under with a live stream to the sermon. It will be followed by tea and coffee.
Leah Ellis will be the speaker at the evening service which starts at 6.15pm. All are welcome at both services.
Pastor Phil Dixon will take both services on Sunday, April 7. The morning service will start at 10.45am.
Children's groups are available and there is a creche for accompanied children aged three and under with a live stream to the sermon. It will be followed by tea and coffee.
The evening service starts at 6.15pm. All are welcome at both services.
Three schools in Hartlepool are being visited by the no more knives tour. The Message Trust initiative combines music with powerful stories and teaching to equip young people with the skills and knowledge they need to say no to knives and start to discover their full value and identity.
At the end of the week students are invited to a concert by the bands they’ve met in school and featuring guest speakers. This week the event is at Brierton Sports Centre on Brierton Lane TS25 4AF on Friday, March 22. Doors open at 7pm for the event which will run from 7.30-9pm.
It is for youngsters aged 11 to 18-year-old only. Tickets are £2 and on sale now. For further information and to get a ticket click on the QR code above.
We used to wonder if the world was round or flat. Nearly 500 years ago Ferdinand Magellan nailed that question.
He got in a boat and headed west. His ships arrived home three years later … from the East! Ever since, the world’s been getting smaller.
In 1938 Howard Florey read Alexander Flemming’s paper on ‘Penicillium notatum mould’ and wondered whether penicillin could be extracted in sufficient quantity to fight bacteria. His team didn’t stop for weekends to solve the question. On Saturday May 25, 1940, they nailed it.Out of eight infected mice, the four treated with Penicillin survived. The other four died. Millions of lives have since been saved (including this author).
On May 25, 1961, President John F Kennedy declared he would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Many wondered if this was, to make a bad pun, ‘lunacy’. But in 1969, when Neil Armstrong descended to the surface of the moon saying, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” he nailed those doubts.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, track athlete Marion Jones nailed all five events she competed in. Except we couldn’t help wondering if she was running ‘clean’!
Turns out she wasn’t.
Life’s full of important questions. Sometimes you get answers, sometimes you don’t.
The most important question we’ve ever asked is, ‘Does God love us?’. Thankfully, this was nailed by Jesus a long time ago.
You see, Jesus wasn’t an unwitting or unwilling victim when he was crucified or nailed to a wooden cross by Roman soldiers. The Bible makes it clear that the whole event was part of God’s perfect plan to pay for sin. It says: This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1John 4:9)
And: God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8)
Jesus’s death on the cross was no accident. It was God’s greatest answer to the greatest ever question.
So if you’re ever wondering if God loves you, then look to Easter. To Good Friday when Christ died and Easter Sunday when he rose again, victorious over death.
Prayer: Dear God, please help me to trust in your love shown for me at the cross of Christ.
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Pastor Phil Dixon will speak at the Palm Sunday service on Sunday, March 24 when he will look at Mark 7 24-37.
Children's groups are available and there is a creche for accompanied children aged three and under with a live stream to the sermon. It will be followed by tea and coffee.
Sandy Law will speak at the evening service starting at 6.15pm. All are welcome at both services.
Easter services will start on Maundy Thursday - March 28 - with a service at Headland Baptist Church at 7pm,
The following day is Good Friday when there will be a service at Oxford Road Baptist Church at 11am led by Pastor Phil Dixon.
On East Sunday, March 31 there is a sunrise service at the Headland at 6.30am - but remember the clocks go forward the same day.
Also on Easter Sunday there will be services at 10.45am and 6.15pm at Oxford Road Baptist Church. The morning service will include children's groups and a creche for accompanied children aged three and under with a stream to the service.
All are welcome at all services.
Mairi McBain will be the speaker at the morning service which starts at 10.45am. Children's groups are available during the sermon including a creche for accompanied children aged three and under. A stream of the service will be available in the creche room.
Pastor Phil Dixon will take the evening service at 6.15pm when he will continue our look at the book of Luke.
All are welcome to both services.
There will be two services on Sunday, March 10. The morning service starts at 10.45am. Children's groups are available during the sermon including a creche for accompanied children aged three and under. A stream of the service will be available in the creche room.
The evening service starts at 6.15pm when we will look at Luke 22 7-23.
All are welcome to both services.
Ian Parker will take the morning service on Sunday, March 3 starting at 10.45am when he will look at Mark 4 35-1. Children's groups are available during the sermon including a creche for accompanied children aged three and under. A stream of the service will be available in the creche room.
Elaine Cooper will take the evening service which starts at 6.15pm when we will look at Luke 10: 38-42. The service will include communion.
All are welcome to both services.
Pastor Phil Dixon will take the morning service on Sunday, February 25, starting at 10.45am when he will look at Mark 2:23- 3:6. Children's groups are available during the sermon including a creche for accompanied children aged three and under. A stream of the service will be available in the creche room.
Phil will also take the evening service which starts at 6.15pm when he will look at Luke 18:18-30 and 19: 1-10.
All are welcome to both services.
In the run-up to Easter there is a period of time people often look out for. Lent comes in the weeks running up to the Christian festival and with it the annual tradition of giving up something.
But it is not just a time for Christians with many non-religious people also taking the opportunity to give up something they love for a few weeks. But what is Lent and when does it start.
For many Christians Lent is a time of repentance, fasting and preparation for the coming of Easter. Many people look to develop a closer relationship with God, and often choose to give up something or to volunteer and give something to others.
However many other people get in on the idea and look to give up something for the run up to Easter.
Lent officially lasts for 40 days. This is to mark the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert fasting and praying before he began his public teaching and ministry. Many Christians spend time during this period in prayer as they prepare to commemorate Easter and the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Millions of people give up things during Lent as a sign of sacrifice or self-discipline. Christians do it to represent Jesus Christ's sacrifice when he went into the desert to pray and fast shortly before his death on the cross.
In the bible it tells how Jesus was tempted by Satan to turn away from God but he refused. Some people give up things to test their own self-discipline when faced with temptation as Jesus was.
Some people choose not to give up anything but to take up something new instead. This can be doing something good for other people or making a commitment to help or physically do something.
Website BustedHalo.com suggests 40 days of letter writing, 40 acts of kindness or 40 phone calls to the important people in your life.
Lent 2025 starts on Wednesday, March 5.