Carols by Candlelight 2022
We held our Carols by Candlelight service on Sunday 11 December 2022. If you missed it, you can hear the service by clicking on the recording below.
We held our Carols by Candlelight service on Sunday 11 December 2022. If you missed it, you can hear the service by clicking on the recording below.
John 20:1-18 Recently a group of Swiss psychologists have published research showing that the closer we are to someone, the less visual our memory of them is. What they mean is that we’re often better at remembering what strangers look like than our nearest and dearest. This is because we remember people we love at…
1 Corinthians 11:17-22 What a good job Paul wasn’t writing to us! Who does he think he is? He actually wrote to a church telling them they’re worse, rather than better when they come together, their Communion is seriously deficient, people are excluded, and they are most definitely not to be commended. Fancy receiving…
Luke 10:38-42 Colossians 1:15-20 Dear Martha, I wanted to write you a letter, to let you know how much I admire you. I see a good deal of what’s best about the followers of Jesus in the way you lived your life. When Jesus sent his disciples out to prepare a way for him in…
Luke 1:26-38 You are going to have a baby! Years ago young women heard those words from their doctor. Nowadays they usually find out for themselves in a toilet when the second line appears. However one finds out, the news of an impending birth is often a cue for joy, excitement, and intense satisfaction. Perhaps…
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Luke 1:5-64 What did the preacher say when he’d lost his voice? Nothing. He’d lost his voice. Our reading from Luke is all about lost and found. Mary finds her voice and sings a song for the ages. Tied up with her story is another story about a man who first loses, and then later…