Christingle Service 2020
The Christingle service for 2020 is now available:
The Christingle service for 2020 is now available:
Genesis 18:20-32 Luke 11:1-13 ‘Please, Grandma!’ begs Chloe. She wants an ice cream, and Grandma thinks it’s too close to tea time. The stage is set for some fierce bargaining. Chloe promises to eat all her tea if she can have an ice cream now, this minute. Grandma suggests that she can have the ice…
A video from this morning’s worship is now available our the Spire Church YouTube channel, or directly below. Please email michael@spirechurchfarnham.org.uk if you want the zoom code to join us next Sunday, or find us on our Spire Church YouTube channel.
Proverbs 1:1-9 Philippians 4:4-9 Mark 10:13-16 I heard of a young mother who gave birth to twins, and rang the local newspaper to put a notice in the personal column. She gave the person at the other end all the details, but unfortunately the reception was bad, and she was asked, ‘will you repeat that?’…
Luke 2:22-40 Marc Chagall was described as “the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century”. He was born in Russia in 1887, and lived through difficult times, having fled Russia to Paris he then had to flee again during the Second World War. As an early modernist artist he drew on the Jewish insights of…
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…
A man was once eating fish and chips at the bus stop, and a lady with a small dog came along to wait for her bus. The dog clearly liked the smell of the fish and chips, and kept jumping up around the man’s legs to try and get at them. In the end the…