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Christ Jesus, Himself as the Chief Cornerstone

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Cornerstone

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Christ Jesus, Himself as the Chief Cornerstone. Eph 2:20

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Church Directory

Cornerstone Church

Off Lord’s Stile Lane, Bromley Cross, Bolton, BL7 9JL

Pastor: Rev. Lee Banfield, 7 Errington Close, Ladybridge, Bolton BL3 4NL

Tel: 01204 770221

Email: [email protected]

Church Telephone: 07758816399

Deacons Telephone

Kevan Nelson 01204 398467

Eileen Nelson (and Secretary) 01204 398467

Sharon Wilson 01204 594358

Frank Hall 01204 415984

Treasurer: Marylyn Brown 01204 305625

Services: 11.00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship

Prayer Meeting 10.30 a.m. Tuesday Honor Corry 01204 594891

& Bible Study: 10.30 a.m. Wednesday Lee Banfield 01204 770221

Monday Cafe 12.00 October to March Lee Banfield 07758816399

Ladies Meetings 12.00 noon Friday Marylyn Tonge 01204 305625 (approx. every six weeks)

Please check the notice boards and the white board inside the entrance to the

main hall.

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Pastor’s Page

For He knoweth our frame . . . Psalm 103:14 Taken from a short devotional by Billy Graham

It’s very significant that the first US astronauts, while being trained for their moon

flights, were required to give twenty answers to this question, “Who are you?”

I challenge you to take that same test yourself. Answer thoughtfully and honestly.

Now that you have made your list and run out of things to add, review what you have written and ask yourself if you have answered truly. Do you really know who you are? Scientists agree that our desperate search leads all humans to seek heroes and to imitate others, to “paste bits and pieces of other people onto ourselves.” We dress and present ourselves in such a way as to fit in with others with whom we identify as like-minded. We try to play golf in the style of Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods. We emulate famous celebrities, even copying their mannerisms and so on. Part of this process is natural, because, when you think

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about it, we learn from the cradlewe assemble is not really genuine and most of us never seem to have the time or the inclination to stop and seek the real

“Who am I? Who are you?

Consider this: there are three of you:

There is the person you think you are

There is the person others think you are

There is the person God knows you are... ...and can be through Christ.

Pastor

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from the cradle by imitating others. The tragedy is that the person really genuine and most of us never seem to have the time or

the inclination to stop and seek the real us.

“Who am I? Who are you?

e of you:

There is the person you think you are

There is the person others think you

There is the person God knows you

and can be through Christ.

Birthdays:Bob Hargreaves, Kevan Nelson, Pat

Stokes, Lorna McEwing, Dorothy

Banfield

WISHING YOU all A VERY HAPPY

BIRTHDAY FROM your friends

CONERSTONE.

hers. The tragedy is that the person really genuine and most of us never seem to have the time or

Birthdays: Bob Hargreaves, Kevan Nelson, Pat

McEwing, Dorothy

all A VERY HAPPY

BIRTHDAY FROM your friends AT

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Caring and Sharing – please pray for...

� The work of New Tribes Mission and in particular Frank and Jeanette Brearley

� Those who are no longer able to join with us due to sickness or infirmity

� Morning star children’s crèche’

� Bolton Winter-watch

� Albanian Evangelical Mission

� Spanish Gospel Mission

� The Bromley Cross Community choir

� All on-going church ministries and services

BBC Songs of Praise BBC Songs of Praise will be filming ‘Congregational Singing’ and the ‘Young Choirs Festival’ at Victoria Hall, Bolton on the weekend of 8th to 10th March. Victoria Hall is aiming to fill the auditorium with as many people as possible on all three dates:

Fri 8th March, 6-30pm:

Congregational Sing (The congregation will be filmed singing songs for the programme – no rehearsal; it will all be done on the evening).

Sat 9th March and Sun 10th March, 2-30pm to 6-30pm:

The ‘Songs of Praise Young Choirs Festival’ (Audiences are needed for this event).

The events are free to attend but If anyone would like to be a member of the congregation at any of the events they need to register their interest by enquiring at the Victoria Hall Box Office (01204 522569) or by visiting their website: www.boltonmethodistmission.org.uk so that the organisers have a clear idea of numbers attending

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And we could

always grow

our own!

This is the month!

29th the date!

This article was written on 31 January.

Whether you’re a Remainer or a die-hard Brexiteer, one thing is

certain; this great country of ours will manage just fine whichever way

things go. The BBC, in a recent news item, reported that Spain

provides nearly all our fresh tomatoes and this will be put at risk if we

leave with no deal! Apparently they may take longer to get here and

cost us more!

Oh no, I hear you cry, whatever will we do without fresh tomatoes from

Spain? Well, perhaps, just maybe, there are other countries in the

world that will sell them to us and they could be even better and

cheaper than the Spanish ones. But if the worst comes to the worst,

until it’s all sorted out, we British are a hardy lot – we can manage very

well with tinned!

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Bible Study

How is Bible Study different from coming to listen to

a message as part of a service? Well, it’s really mega

different! For a start in a Bible Study you can ask

questions just as they pop into your head and it’s

much more inter-active. You are able to discuss

things in a small group and listen to a range of ideas

and opinions. You get time to think about the topic in

question and how it relates to you. You get the

opportunity to stop and go back over something that’s not clear or doesn’t quite make

sense to you, there and then; something you can’t do in a worship service.

I can’t actually over-emphasise the importance of regular Bible Study. Ask yourself

these questions: Do I know enough about the basis of the Christian faith? Could I

explain what I believe and why? Have I unanswered questions about why God allows

suffering and inequality in the world? How can I be sure there is life everlasting? How

do other religions fit in to the picture and how is Christianity different? Is the Bible

still relevant? What does it say about my relationship to God and to other people?

What is forgiveness? Who is Jesus really? How will it all end?

The Bible is God’s revelation to us. It fulfils all our deepest needs and our thirst for

answers and knowledge about who we are and what we’re doing here. It tells us about

a God that is so utterly wonderful it will blow your mind. May I encourage you to read

it? May I challenge you to question it? May I invite you to come along and discuss it?

Pastor

There are currently two Bible Studies – one on Tuesday morning run by

Honor Corry and the other on Wednesday morning run by Pastor. You

would be welcome to join either. If you can’t make a day time study, please

speak to me.

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What do we know?

Article by Dorothy Banfield

I had many things in common with my lovely late-dad. One thing we both shared was a great love of history. Even as a child at school history was my favourite subject and my early memories of family holidays in Wales are peppered with trips to historical castles, stately homes and ancient ruins. History, however, is a funny thing to tie down. I realised from an early age that there were many different viewpoints when looking at an event that took place in the past. For example, most of the reporting in a war-zone is skewed according to which side the reporter is working for and of course, his or her own personal perspective of the facts. Records of events are naturally biased depending on who wrote them and when they were written. Even first hand, eye-witness accounts can differ wildly – for example, if three witnesses see a car accident, the police know that there will be three different accounts of what happened, as well as the driver’s, the passenger’s and anyone else involved. So how do we know what is true and what isn’t? There was a question posed recently on a late night TV programme. You might have seen it. It asked whether Sir Winston Churchill was a villain or a hero. Most people know about Churchill through films made about his life and of course, old news reels. These films are often romanticised or were made for propaganda purposes and are, of course, not particularly accurate or impartial. How many of us have actually studied the man and his life? Very few is suspect. How many of us really know know know know about his character, or about his early years as a soldier and a mediocre politician? Do we know, for instance, that he is reported to have made several dubious and questionable decisions that resulted in military action being taken against ordinary British working people who, at the time, were doing nothing more than peacefully protesting over severe working conditions? Many were injured and some were killed. The common view of Churchill is that he was the right man to steer us through the dark years of the Second World War. Indeed, it is difficult to argue that Churchill did not possess extra-ordinary insight, determination and personal fortitude that helped drive this country toward victory during those horrific war years. He said of himself, ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man’. So, villain or hero? What do you think? As for me, I tend to lean toward hero. But, then again, maybe not! As I said, I have no real first-hand knowledge of him whatsoever. All I know of him is from other people’s accounts and I am already bias in my views because I wantwantwantwant him to be a hero. There are four accounts detailing of the life of Jesus in the Bible. Three were written by eye-witnesses and the fourth, by a person close to the events. All four accounts are very similar but they do have some variations. The styles in which they are written and the differing emphasis

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placed on the facts make for interesting comparison. For me, I feel that the differences are quite reassuring and each account has a ring of truth and authenticity. If there were four identical accounts I think I’d be a lot more sceptical that they were actually real. In addition, much of what is reported in the gospels can be verified through other source materials. It is possible, for instance, to cross-reference dates, times and events in the life of Jesus with what has been written by historians at the time or shortly after the events. In fact, so many people, both now and down the ages, have tried to discredit the gospels and failed, that this gives me additional reassurance as to their historical validity. In other words, if they could have been disproved, it would have happened before now! There is also another source of reassurance regarding the truth of the gospels but it’s hard for me to describe as it relates to a close encounter with Jesus Himself. I had been brought up as a nominal Christian, going to Sunday school and learning about the events surrounding the life of Jesus in the New Testament. I knew about the miracles, the teachings, the virgin birth and the death and resurrection but to be honest, it was all meaningless to me. You see, it wasn’t personal in any way. Then, back in 1984 I began to read and study the scriptures for myself for the first time. The stories were no longer just stories; they came alive and held meaning for me for the first time. I began to have a strange ‘hunger’ for what I was reading. Words jumped off the pages of my little New Testament and Jesus took on the form and persona of a real, living, breathing person. I began to understand. In fact, you could say that I met Jesus and that He became more than real to me. So, what do I know? Not a lot about history or about Churchill. But I do know that the gospel accounts ring true – read them for yourself and see. I know Jesus personally. I know that He loves me far and above the common understanding of love. I know from the evidence of my own heart that He is alive and real. It’s hard to say that someone doesn’t exist when you actually have a daily close encounter with them. So how about you? What do you know? Churchill, villain or hero; the gospels, true or not?

Book of Kells

CUSTARD TART- taken from an old

Be-Ro recipe and submitted by Val

Short crust pastry base Filling:Filling:Filling:Filling: 2 Medium eggs ½ pint of milk 2 table spoons sugar Grated nutmeg

Well-known Easter hymns, but they have had their words jumbled up

1. Lla oyrig audl and orouhn

2. Lla venhea seralced

3. Nda acn ti eb

4. Eb istli nda nkow hatt i ma ogd

5. Eb tllsi fro teh erscnepe foe ht rdol

6. Earebht no em tabahr

7. Hrsict het riod si eisnr ydaot

8. Ofmr anehev ouy ocme

9. Eh si rdol

10. I ecandd ni eht grnnimo

11. I oknw taht ym rdemreee eilsv

12. Kmae yaw, kmae yaw

Answers:

1. All |Glory laud and honour

2. All heaven declares

3. And can it be

4. Be still and know that I am God

5. Be still for the presence of the Lord

6. Breathe on me breath of God

7. Christ the Lord is risen today

8. From heaven you came

9. He is Lord

10. I danced in the morning

11. I know that my redeemer lives

12. Make way, make way

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CUSTARD taken from an old

and submitted by Val

spoons sugar

known Easter hymns, but they have had their words jumbled up

Lla oyrig audl and orouhn

Lla venhea seralced

Eb istli nda nkow hatt i ma ogd

Eb tllsi fro teh erscnepe foe ht rdol

Earebht no em tabahr fo gdo

Hrsict het riod si eisnr ydaot

Ofmr anehev ouy ocme

I ecandd ni eht grnnimo

I oknw taht ym rdemreee eilsv

Kmae yaw, kmae yaw

All |Glory laud and honour

Be still and know that I am God

Be still for the presence of the Lord

Breathe on me breath of God

Christ the Lord is risen today

I know that my redeemer lives

Heat the oven to gas mk 5, 190c, 375 f

Line 7” tin with the pastry and bake blind

Reduce oven to gas mk 4, 190 c, 350 f

Whisk the eggs, bring milk and sugar to the boil

Pour onto eggs and cool

Pour into cooked pastry, add grated nutmeg and bake

for about 20 minutes or until set.

known Easter hymns, but they have had their words jumbled up

Heat the oven to gas mk 5, 190c, 375 f

Line 7” tin with the pastry and bake blind

Reduce oven to gas mk 4, 190 c, 350 f

Whisk the eggs, bring milk and sugar to the boil

Pour into cooked pastry, add grated nutmeg and bake

Have a giggle:

My wife and I walked past a swanky new restaurant last night.

“Did you smell that food?” she asked. “Incredible!”

Being the considerate person I am, I thought, “What the heck, “I’ll treat her!”

So we walked past it again.

A Sunday School teacher began

do we know about God?” A hand shot up in the air. “He’s very good at drawing”

said a small girl.

“Really? How do you know?” the teacher asked. The child replied, “Our Father

who’s art is in heaven...”

The last Monday cafe is on 11 March.Thanks to all our cooks, bakers, pot washers, table setters and clearers,

shoppers, bread-butterers, saladIn the words of

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Have a giggle:


“Did you smell that food?” she asked. “Incredible!”


So we walked past it again.

A Sunday School teacher began her lesson with a question, “Girls and boys, what



who’s art is in heaven...”

MMMMonday Cafeonday Cafeonday Cafeonday Cafe The last Monday cafe is on 11 March.

Thanks to all our cooks, bakers, pot washers, table setters and clearers, butterers, salad-washers, tea-pourers, servers

In the words of old Mr Grace, “We all did very well!”



her lesson with a question, “Girls and boys, what



The last Monday cafe is on 11 March. Thanks to all our cooks, bakers, pot washers, table setters and clearers,

servers and so on...

Please note that as we come into Spring, there will be a need to replenish the lovely church borders and flower pots at the front of the building, as well as buying weed-killer and other essentials. Any spare change you have will be greatly appreciated. Please put what you can in the jar at

the back of the church hall.

The Annual Generand Friends o

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Please note that as we come into Spring, there will be a need to replenish the lovely church borders and flower pots at the front of the building, as

killer and other essentials. Any spare change you greatly appreciated. Please put what you can in the jar at

the back of the church hall.

ral Meeting for Cornerstof Cornerstone will be hday 2nd April at 7.30pm.

Please note that as we come into Spring, there will be a need to replenish the lovely church borders and flower pots at the front of the building, as

killer and other essentials. Any spare change you greatly appreciated. Please put what you can in the jar at

tone Church held on .

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