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Active filter: Preacher: John Orchard (x)
Book: Exodus (2), Luke (1).
Service: Sunday Morning (2), Sunday Evening (1).
Date: 2007 (1), 2008 (2)
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Why do good things happen to bad people?
Exodus 27:1-19 (Part of the Miscellaneous series).
https://www.bethel-clydach.co.uk/sermons/?show&file_name=2008-10-26-pm.mp3 Download
Preached by John Orchard on October 26, 2008 (Sunday Evening).
The tense relationship with God
Exodus 25:10-26:30 (Part of the Miscellaneous series).
https://www.bethel-clydach.co.uk/sermons/?show&file_name=2008-10-26-am.mp3 Download
Preached by John Orchard on October 26, 2008 (Sunday Morning).
Luke 2:22-40
Luke 2:22-40 (Part of the Miscellaneous series).
https://www.bethel-clydach.co.uk/sermons/?show&file_name=2007-07-15-am.mp3 Download
Preached by John Orchard on July 15, 2007 (Sunday Morning).
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Keith’s story

“I started to see I wasn't the nice guy I thought I was”

After I retired I missed spending time with people and thought I’d find some sort of community in a church. I was quite nervous about going by myself. Eventually, when I did go to Bethel, it was quite reassuring. There were even people on the front door to welcome me. Listening to the preacher came as a bit of a shock though. He said no-one was good enough to go to heaven. I thought that as long as your good deeds are more than your bad you’ll be fine and go to heaven but this wasn't what God said in the Bible. I started to see I wasn't the nice guy I thought I was. God was on my mind more than ever and I knew I needed him so I started to go to Bethel regularly. I often thought about the wrong things I’d done in my life and wondered if God really wanted me.
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Food for Thought
Isn’t Clydach a great place to live? It’s good isn’t it to meet with friends and have opportunities for strengthening our ties with each other? Bethel wants to help us do just this. Food for Thought is an hour long monthly lunch where we share a meal together, and listen to a short talk allowing…
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