‘Blue Christmas’
Our ‘Blue Christmas’ service is now available. This is a service of consolation and hope, especially for people who find Christmas sad or confusing.
Our ‘Blue Christmas’ service is now available. This is a service of consolation and hope, especially for people who find Christmas sad or confusing.
2 Chronicles 7:12-14 Romans 8:18-25 I wonder what you put in your dustbins? Recently Waverley Council employed a couple of people to come around and put stickers on the grey bins reminding us not to put food waste in them, leaving us a few disposable bags. Clearly not enough people have been using their food…
Acts 1:1-11 Luke 24:44-53 Is the ascension a fictional story of something that couldn’t have happened, written by people in an age when they still thought the earth was flat, of no relevance to us today? Or is it – although impossible to explain in modern rational and scientific terms – a literal truth? The…
Matthew 9:9-17 Thirty years ago this week the last long national strike began, when Arthur Scargill led the miners out. A big part of English culture certainly used to be that the most respected and honoured manual worker was the miner. I suspect that if you lived in Surrey, the miners’ strike didn’t make a…
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 On that crowded bus from the gate to the place, you have to stand firm and hold tight. Crowded onto that tube train rush hour, you have to stand firm and hold tight. On that narrow mountain path when it gets a bit windy, you have to stand firm and hold tight….
2 Samuel 8:1-6 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 & 53-56 If your drive north from here, towards Reading and the M4, you find yourself passing things like the Wellington Farm Shop and the Wellington Country Park, for you’re passing through the estate of the Duke of Wellington. On just a few days a year you can see…
John 15: 1-8 Acts 8:26-40 Who inspired you in your Christian faith? Who nurtured you in being a Christian? Whose fault is it that you are here? When people are asked questions like that, the answer is very rarely clergy, but usually ordinary people like all of you. Over the years, many people in this…