Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

This Sunday - 16th February

14 February 2020

This Sunday we meet at 11am in Ballyhenry. We've a mixture of things lined up for this week. Martin will be talking to us about our 2020 Cambodia team and Rev Ronnie Hetherington will be taking us into the next part of our series 'Church on the Move'. This week we arrive in Acts 4 where, following the healing of a paralysed man, Peter and John find themsleves on trial as the ruling authorities try to make sense of all that had been going on. As usual we have a supervised creche, full children's provision and teenage Bible Class.

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This Sunday - 2nd February

31 January 2020

This Sunday we meet in Ballyhenry for our morning service at 11am. This week we continue our series in Acts entitled 'Church on the Move'. We're looking at Acts 3 and the incredible story of a lame man being healed at the gate of the Temple. We'll be seeing how this story points us to who Jesus is and also opens a place in our hearts and minds for how this same Jesus, by His Spirit, continues to work today. We have a full children's provision and supervised creche.

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This Sunday - 19th January

17 January 2020

Here in Ballyhenry we are looking forward to this Sunday when we gather together for worship at 11am. At the moment Sundays see us gathering in our hall (following on from our flood at the end of November). There's a lovely line in the very first book in Genesis, the very first book in the Bible. Jacob is on the move and at at a roadside place called Bethel he wakens after a dream, looks around him, and says 'Surely the LORD is in this place!' (Genesis 28 vs 16). It's a fantastic reminder that where God's people are there He is in their midst.

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This Sunday - 24th November

22 November 2019

This Sunday morning in Ballyhenry we welcome as our guest speaker at 11am Rev Dr John Woodside. John is formerly minister of Drogheda Presbyterian Church in County Louth and will be picking up on the next part of our series in the book of Romans looking at 'Present Suffering and Future Glory' (Romans 8 vs 18-30). Our service will include full children's provision, teenage Bible Class and supervised creche.

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This Sunday - 15th November

15 November 2019

This Sunday we meet in Ballyhenry at 11am and 7pm.

At our 11am service we continue our journey in the book of Romans, looking at Romans 8 vs 1-17 under the title 'Life through the Spirit'. We will also be sharing together in bread and wine at this service, expectant as to how Jesus promises to teach us through His word and by His Spirit.

Then at 7pm we have Prayer Central, an ever welcome opportunity to seek God's face for ourselves, the church and our community, as we look to another week.

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