Ashbourne Baptist Church

CELEBRATING ASHBOURNE ROYAL SHROVETIDE FOOTBALL

One Rule: Do Not Kill Your Opponent

SHROVETIDE VALENTINE
2018: The year when
Valentine's Day & Shrovetide Collide!

2018 Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football ball, overlaid with red hearts for Valentine's Day

This year Shrove Wednesday - the second day of the Shrovetide Football game - is also Valentine's Day...

so... will you be celebrating Valentine's Day this year?

Valentine's Day is easier to re-schedule than Shrovetide, right?

But what if your other half doesn't agree - and your team needs you?

-- and let's face it, it's not the kind of dilemma that happens only at Shrovetide.

What is the greatest act of love?

How far, exactly, would you go to demonstrate your love for someone? Let's consider the greatest act of love, ever... but first, you need to take this super-quick test. Just four questions - and you'll soon see what it has to do with Valentine's Day!

Just 3 Quick Questions...

1. How many lies have you told — ever?

2. How many lies have you told... to someone you love...?

3. Have you ever — even once — stolen anything?

4. Used God's name carelessly?

O.K. – That's it! How did you do?

How did you do?
If you have lied, stolen something, blasphemed or broken any of God's other commandments (and there are seven more!) you will be guilty on Judgement Day and you'll end up in God's prison He calls Hell.

But the Bible says God loves us so much that He offered a way out of Hell and into Heaven. Imagine you have £1 million pound debt that you cannot repay but someone steps in and pays it for you. That's what Jesus did for us on the cross. He paid our legal debt (sin) to God and rose from the dead defeating death.

"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us."
— 1 John 3:16

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friend. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still His enemies. To receive this free gift, we must repent (turn from all sin) and trust in Jesus alone

You are very welcome to come along to Ashbourne Baptist Church to find out more, or to ask questions.
Ashbourne Baptist Church meets at 11am and 6pm every Sunday at St John's Church (on the hill out to Buxton) in Ashbourne. It's just up from the Market Place. There's a car-park ('PayByPhone' app or cash to pay) behind the church, on Auction Street - from there, please take the footpath around the church hall to the front entrance of the big traditional-style church building.

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Ashbourne Baptist Church at St John's, Ashbourne, Derbyshire - by GBAshbourne Baptist Church (at St. John's)

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Ashbourne Baptist Church

St. John the Baptist Church,
(main church building, not the community hall)
4 Buxton Rd, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1EX

Sunday Morning Worship:

11am Family Service
and Sunday School

Sunday Evening Worship:

6pm Evening Service

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Mid-Week Prayer & Bible Study:

7.30pm Thursdays
(Contact church for details)

Boys' Brigade & Girls' Assoc

meets at:
St. Oswalds Primary School
Mayfield Rd, Ashbourne DE6 1AS



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Ashbourne Baptist Church is a Reformed, Evangelical and Independent Bible-believing Christian Church in Ashbourne