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Luke 10:38-42 Colossians 1:15-20 Dear Martha, I wanted to write you a letter, to let you know how much I admire you. I see a good deal of what’s best about the followers of Jesus in the way you lived your life. When Jesus sent his disciples out to prepare a way for him in…
Candlemas
Luke 2.22-40 On 12 February 1809 a baby boy was born in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor on a farm in Kentucky. He grew up to be a man of rugged determination. And although he had less than a year of formal education, he succeeded in becoming a lawyer. However he really wanted to make…
The sower and the seed
Matthew 13:1-9 When we read stories to children, they don’t have to be very old before they know that you have to wait for the end, and that it will be alright, or even more than alright. The owl babies’ mother does come back. The little bear who is scared of the dark does…
Christmas Day
Who wants to a pull a cracker with the Minister? Christmas has so many traditions, some more related to the Christmas story than others. The Christmas cracker is a great British institution, whether they’re Lidl’s extra cheap ones, or Evitavonni’s ones more expensive than Harrods. We all know that you get three things in a…
Water of life
Revelation 21:1-6 John 19:16b-18 & 28 Teach me, my God and King, in all things thee to see, and what I do in anything to do it as for thee. A man that looks on glass, on it may stay his eye; or if he pleaseth, through it pass, and then the heaven espy. George…
What will our church be like in 40 years time? (Nick Savill)
Matthew 16:13-20 2 Timothy 3:10-4:8 An article in a recent issue of Reform magazine asked “what will the church be like in 40 years?” They asked four people in various positions of leadership throughout the church to give their view, and these were published in the magazine. Firstly, they asked Susan Durber, the principal of…