Streaming from 7:00am Sunday

Streaming from 7:00am Sunday

Expect the Unexpected

I wonder if you’ve ever had one of those weeks where things have not gone quite how you had planned or expected? We’ve certainly had one of those weeks in our household recently where Covid, sickness and school water supply issues (to name but a few), collided together without warning, bringing about last-minute changes to plans several times over! You may have had similar experiences yourself at some point or another – where plans are made but chaos somehow ensues and you have little choice but to just ride the wave!

As we draw near to the end of this season of Lent, and our thoughts begin to turn to the most significant week in Jesus’ earthly life, there is little doubt that the disciples had no real idea about just what was coming. To say the events that unfolded before their eyes were unexpected is probably quite an understatement; a triumphal entry on a donkey, anger at corrupt practices in the Temple, a final meal, crucifixion…the end, nothing… and then…not the end but in fact a whole new beginning! The twists and turns of this extraordinary week of events changed the world forever, and as we consider these events again this Easter, they have the power to change us too. Jesus invites us to come and ride the wave with Him as we prepare to embark on Holy week; to hear the story of passionate and undying love, and somehow in the mystery of it all, to realise either afresh, or perhaps for the very first time, that He did all this just for you.