Worship for Sunday 10 January 2021
Worship for Sunday 10 January 2021 is now available:
Worship for Sunday 10 January 2021 is now available:
Jeremiah 11:18-20 Mark 9:30-37 I’m told that in Harrogate crèche is what’s happened when you’ve driven into another car, and sex is what the coal is delivered in. Harrogate acquired its fame because of the spa water, and people came to take the waters for all manner of troubles. This was no quick fix:…
Matthew 22:15-22 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 It was a very crafty move. We know from the end of Matthew chapter 21 that the chief priests and the Pharisees wanted to arrest Jesus, and their latest ploy was for the Pharisees to join forces with members of Herod’s party to try to trap him. The question they…
1 Samuel 3:1-10 Psalm 139 Galatians 2:15-21 The search for identity and purpose is all around us. You only have to look at the situation in Italy, as those with vastly different visions of what it means to be Italian compete to run the country. You only have to look at the Russian billionaire Roman…
On 1 June 1944, just days before D-Day, Arland Scott, a 26 year old soldier with the Royal Canadian Artillery wrote to his young wife and to his young baby daughter whom he had only briefly seen once on leave following her birth in May. Arland was fatally wounded on the Normandy beaches and died…
Acts 1:1-11 Luke 24:44-53 Perhaps some of you remember Sputnik going into space in 1957, and then in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin made that first manned space flight. Apparently some were concerned that the godless Russian might use his craft to break physically into heaven. Others pointed out that Gagarin was not the first person…
Mark 16:1-8 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 There are no Easter bonnets or bunnies in Mark’s story. How strange, and thin it is compared to the other three gospel accounts. There’s the empty tomb, the young man’s message that Jesus is risen, the command to tell the disciples that he’s gone ahead to Galilee, and the promise…