St Pauls and St Barnabas

Easter Community Prayer Walk – Praying for Gospel Hope in Our City As we journey through Holy Week and prepare to celebrate the risen Christ, we invite you to join us for a special Easter Community Prayer Walk on Tuesday 15th April . We will gather at 6:30pm at the Salvation Army, York Street , and finish around 8:00pm at Alexandra Presbyterian Church . Along the way, we will stop at several local churches and key community sites in Tiger’s Bay and Mountcollyer , lifting our city in prayer. This prayer walk is an expression of Gospel partnership — a visible sign that we are one body in Christ, united not by tradition or denomination, but by the shared hope of the resurrection. It is our desire to walk humbly, pray fervently, and proclaim Christ clearly in the heart of North Belfast. As we walk and pray, we will be interceding for the people who live, work, and worship in our neighbourhood. We will pray for schools, families, frontline wo...

Who Will You Serve? | Luke 4:1-13 Who Will You Serve? | Luke 4:1-13 On Sunday, 9th March 2025, Rev. Andrew Irwin preached on Luke 4:1-13 with a sermon titled “Who Will You Serve?” As Lent continues, this passage brings us to a pivotal moment in Jesus’ ministry—His temptation in the wilderness. Here, we see the battle for allegiance, the test of faithfulness, and the question that confronts every one of us: Who or what will we serve? The world often tells us that we are free to shape our own destinies, that we can live without answering to anyone. But as Andrew pointed out, this simply isn’t true. Whether we recognise it or not, we are all serving something—our careers, ambitions, relationships, or even our own desires. The question is not whether we serve, but whom we serve. The Temptations of Jesus Luke 4 presents us with three temptations faced by Jesus in the wilderness. The first is the temptation of provis...