Christingle Service 2020
Our Christingle service is online this year. See you on YouTube and Zoom…
Our Christingle service is online this year. See you on YouTube and Zoom…
Exodus 17:1-7 Matthew 14:22-27 The Israelites had no shade, no shelter and no water. They were exhausted and desperate. All reasonable hope of survival must have gone. Then, at God’s command, Moses struck the rock … whoosh! Life and hope and joy bubbled up effortlessly with the water, and it changed everything. What a vivid…
John 15:9-17 Ephesians 3:14-19 Eric Lomax was born in 1919, and served as a signals officer in Singapore, when he was captured in 1942 and made a prisoner of war at Kanchanaburi camp in Thailand. He suffered horrendous torture at the hands of guards after they found a radio receiver and a map he had…
In Wales and Scotland many road signs are bilingual. There are several road signs in Wales which, famously, make sense in English, but for which the Welsh, when translated back into English, reads, “Thank you for emailing the translation department. We will respond to your email when we reopen on 19 October”. Likewise, there is…
John 19:25-27 Being Lent, we gather at the foot of the cross, yet today is Mothering Sunday – originally a pagan festival, held in honour of the Mother goddess Cybele. After Constantine converted to Christianity, the Roman Empire began to celebrate it as a Christian Festival, honouring the Blessed Virgin Mary and Mother Church. During…
Matthew 21:1-11 . There’s an episode of Dad’s Army in which there is to a big parade of all the organisations involved in the war effort: the Home Guard, the ARP, the Red Cross, the ATS, and so on. Captain Mainwaring decides that the Home Guard need a mascot, and so the platoon attempt to…
Romans 9:1-5 I used to envy those who appeared to have been born with silver spoons in their mouths. They had everything going for them, they didn’t want for anything, and their life-style always seemed to me to be exotic and sophisticated. But as I’ve grown older I’ve discovered that such people are no happier…