{"id":1330,"date":"2017-09-21T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-09-21T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:54:04","slug":"blog-21st-september-alpha-and-bear-grylls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Blog 21st September &#8211; Alpha and Bear Grylls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLQZM1QwuUs&#038;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLQZM1QwuUs&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1330-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/05-We-Cant-Set-The-World-On-Fire.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/05-We-Cant-Set-The-World-On-Fire.mp3\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/05-We-Cant-Set-The-World-On-Fire.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n&#8220;We Can&#8217;t Set The World On Fire&#8221; featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album &#8220;Uplifted&#8221; recorded and produced by Bob Ross<\/p>\n<p>So Alpha starts in many churches this month &#8211; at my church Holy Rood there was an introductory evening last night. This year Bear Grylls has presented some words of encouragement for those who are considering attending an Alpha Course. They are featured in today\u2019s blog. He also gave a Christmas message which I posted on my blog of December 17th 2015.<\/p>\n<p>So what is Alpha ?<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha website <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.org\/\">https:\/\/alpha.org\/<\/a>says that Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith.\u00a0Each talk looks at a different question around faith and is designed to create conversation. Alpha is run all around the globe, and everyone&#8217;s welcome. It runs in caf\u00e9s, churches, universities, homes\u2014you name it. No two Alphas look the same, but generally they have three key things in common: food, a talk and good conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I will tell you the story of my first Alpha (if you can\u2019t wait it was first posted on April 3rd 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Can&#8217;t Set The World On Fire&#8221; featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album &#8220;Uplifted&#8221; recorded and produced by Bob Ross So Alpha starts in many churches this month &#8211; at my church Holy Rood there was an introductory evening last night. This year Bear Grylls has presented some words of encouragement for those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}