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• 14 January 2024

  Elijah: From Death to Life. A Reflection from Streatham Vale Baptist Church

  Join us as we begin a new series looking into the life of Elijah, one of the prophets that God used to do amazing things in Israel. This week we […]

• 11 January 2024

  Why are you here? A Reflection from Streatham Vale Baptist Church

  Happy New Year! It is the first Sunday of 2024. So often at the beginning of a new year, we spend time reflecting and remaking ourselves. We do this physically, […]

• 24 December 2023

  Advent: Disturbs routines to make room for the spectacular – A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  The Magi saw the star in the sky and knew something amazing was happening, a child had been born who was going to change the world. Despite being from another […]

• 17 December 2023

  Advent: Disturbs corruption to make room for justice – A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  King Herod liked to pretend that he was King of the Jews, and so when the Magi informed him of the news of Jesus’ birth, he was disturbed. Herod reigned […]

• 10 December 2023

  Advent: Disturb our prejudices to make room for everyone – A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  When Jesus was born, the angels visited some people to invite them to be witnesses to the special event. But the angels didn’t go to the palace to find the […]

• 3 December 2023

  Advent: Disturb our ordinary lives to work a miracle – A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  Christmas is often pictured as a cute, fluffy scene that we can put on Christmas cards. But the real first Christmas would have been disturbing, shocking. Lives would have been […]

• 26 November 2023

  Dangerous Prayers: Break Me: Blessing of Brokenness- A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  Becoming broken by God can be a wonderful blessing as we allow the Perfect Potter to remould and remake us into something beautiful. God can redeem our brokenness and make […]

• 26 November 2023

  Dangerous Prayers: Break Me: The Need to be Broken- A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  None of us want to be broken. None of us want to experience trial and hardship, but if we want to grow, we need to allow God to break us. […]

• 19 November 2023

  Dangerous Prayers: Lead Me – A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  We are all called to move forward, to keep going in life; but we need to ask ourselves a very important question: in which direction? God longs for us to […]

• 12 November 2023

  Remembrance Sunday: A Vision Realised: A Reflection from Streatham Vale

  Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day in which we pause and remember those affected by war – by the wars of the past and the wars of today. But God […]