Lent and Easter 2025 - Journeying With Jesus on Streatham Vale Baptist Church

Easter Sunday: Jesus is outside the tomb!

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:48:22 +0000

Happy Easter! He is risen! He is risen indeed!

The women go to the tomb to try to anoint Jesus’ body with spices but there was no body to anoint because Jesus was not there! He is risen and is alive again. We journey with these women as they move from grief through fear, wonder and finally to joy.

How do you respond to the Easter story? What do you think and feel when you reflect on these events?

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus is arrested and tried

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:41:05 +0000

As we enter Holy Week, we take time to reflect. Last week we saw how the crowds celebrated and rejoiced because their King was coming into Jerusalem. This week, we see how those cries turn from celebration to condemnation.

We read as Jesus is arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, taken to the house of the High Priest to be put on trial. We see Peter warming his hands in the courtyard, while Jesus is mocked and beaten in the guardroom, until finally He is taken to the Sanhedrin.

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus comes to the city

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:43:58 +0000

Next Sunday is Palm Sunday, but we will be looking at the events of Palm Sunday this week, as we look at the story from different perspectives. We hear the story told from the viewpoint of a disciple, a Pharisee and a Roman guard. All of them had different understandings of who Jesus is, but none of them truly understood why He was there or what He had come to do.

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus before His enemies

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:42:54 +0000

Once again, those who oppose Jesus come to Him to try to trap Him so they can get rid of Him once and for all. The Pharisees and Herodians team up, sent by the Chief Priests, Teachers of the Law and Elders to try to ensnare Jesus in a trap.

How do they try to do this? By questioning, should they pay the imperial tax! A very thorny issue indeed!

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus with His friends

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 07:52:55 +0000

In this week’s passage, we see Jesus with His friends after they have left Jerusalem to find somewhere safe to stay, after they were almost stoned by Jesus’ opponents in Jerusalem. While they are there, a messenger comes to Jesus, telling them Lazarus is sick.

Journey with Jesus as He helps His friends to trust in the power of God, and to see God’s glory displayed in the miraculous raising of Lazarus from the dead.

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus among the crowds

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:42:23 +0000

We move from seeing Jesus in the wilderness, to walking with Jesus among the crowds.

Jairus, the synagogue leader begs Jesus to come to his house to heal his daughter. While on the way there, a woman reaches out to Jesus to be healed from her bleeding which has lasted 12 years. In these two encounters, we see Jesus’ compassion and power. We also see how Jesus had time for people even whilst everyone with their different needs and desires were pushing in on Jesus.

Lent: Journeying with Jesus: Jesus in the Wilderness

info@streathamvalebaptist.org.uk (Pastor Alex Camp) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 07:41:20 +0000

We are starting our Lent series where we will be journeying with Jesus as He makes His way to the cross and beyond. We are going to be following Tom Wright’s book, Lent and Easter for Everyone: From Wilderness to Glory.

This week we look at Jesus in the Wilderness. We look to see how Jesus deals with Satan’s temptations and consider how we can follow Jesus’ example.

Readings

Matthew 3:13-4:11

Lent Book

Lent and Easter for Everyone:: From Wilderness to Glory Tom Wright