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Portswood Church is a community of around 150 people of all ages and different backgrounds.
As we come together in different gatherings and activities we want to worship and honour God, sharing his love and life together as we learn to follow Jesus in today's world. But we don’t want it to end there. We know that God’s Good News is good for the Portswood Locality, for the city where we live and work, and for sharing across the world.
We’re a Bible-based Church so what we do and believe finds its roots there. We know that God intervenes in our lives and our world by the Holy Spirit so we pray and work looking to the living God for what he will do through us.
You are warmly invited to join us at any of our services or activities - to find out more watch the video above.
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Lent - just for Catholics?
Growing up in a small Brethren church, Lent wasn’t something I was really aware of. If anything, I thought Lent was secular. People giving up chocolate so they could be healthier, before the deluge consumed over the Easter weekend. In the Evangelical church, Lent gets mixed reactions. Some see it as a positive thing, a chance to explore spiritual disciplines, long since lost from Protestantism after the reformation, other still see it as a dangerous step towards legalism, ritual and penance in place of grace.