Carol Service 2020
The Carol Service for 2020 is now available:
The Carol Service for 2020 is now available:
Philippians 4:4-9 Matthew 22:1-14 The biggest worry of most Ministers conducting weddings is whether one or other of the bride and groom won’t turn up. The second biggest worry is whether the bride will be sufficiently late to cause problems for the rest of the Minister’s schedule, or their pay and display ticket! Our reading…
Luke 24:1-12 1 Corinthians 15:17-26 ‘These words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.’ Why not? Why were the eleven disciples and the others so incredulous? Perhaps because those who brought the news were all women: Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others. Resurrection, if it happens,…
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Psalm 1 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered Asquith….
John 21:15-19 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Today is Passion Sunday – nothing to do with sex as the council officials in Oxford mistakenly thought a few years ago when attempting to licence as passion play – but the point in Lent when we turn from the more general themes, to thinking more directly about the cross….
Genesis 22:1-18 Acts 11:1-18 John 13:31-35 We live in days when we’re very concerned about child protection, and the story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac strikes most of us as particularly barbaric. How traumatic it must have been for poor little Isaac! But, if we can, let’s leave our own culture aside…
Those of you on Facebook will know that Michael Hopkins, our minister, was visiting the Vatican on Friday for a fact finding visit on behalf of the Assembly Arrangements Committee for ideas to improve the URC’s General Assembly, and finalising details for Pope Francis’s visit to the Assembly this year. He was, of course, on…