Sunday Service for 18 April 2021
Our service for Sunday 18 April 2021 is now available:
Our service for Sunday 18 April 2021 is now available:
Matthew 13:18-23 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 A farmer turns up to evensong and discovers that he and the vicar are the only people there. “What shall we do?”, asks the vicar. “Well”, replies the farmer, “If I goes to feed my sheep and only one turns up, I feeds her.” So after four hymns, two…
Psalm 103 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 There was a Rabbi who once remarked that every morning people should get on their knees and thank God that they’re still on their two feet. Today we’re saying thank you, thank you to everyone in the church and thank you to God. Our psalm is an outpouring of thanksgiving…
Exodus 6:1, 6-9 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally,” said Abraham Lincoln. Of course, we were pleased to celebrate the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade a few years ago. Yet, we all know that slavery…
Genesis 9:8-17 Mark 2:9-15 Many years ago, the clown Roly Bain came to this church to perform his presentation of the Christian story using clowning. When he offered prayers, he used a small pot of bubble mixture, and as he blew the bubbles he invited us to look at the bubbles and drew our attention…
Pause for Thought for 9 December 2020 is available now:
John 12:20-33 These days when the Greeks turn up, they’re probably asking for money, but it wasn’t so in Jesus’ time. The “Greeks” who asked for Jesus were, I expect, Greek Jews. I expect they were there for the Passover. They wanted to see Jesus. And they found Philip. Philip is a Greek name. So…