Christmas Day Service
The service for Christmas Day is now available:
The service for Christmas Day is now available:
Any decent decorator will tell you that 90% of the work is the preparation, and actually putting the coat of paint on is but the culmination of all the work. It’s the preparation that matters. Looking at it from a very different angle, the idea for the Basingstoke Canal began as an economical means of…
Matthew 16:13-20 I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific, someone once said. There are many great benefits to how the internet has improved our access to all kinds of information and services. You can order your supermarket shopping online. You can buy things that you’d never…
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 It’s so hard to get it right! If you try to maintain a low profile, or take a back seat, someone will accuse you of false modesty or of unwillingness to participate in the work to be done. If you put yourself forward for a particular role, someone will…
1 Samuel 8 Mark 3:20-35 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Questions of leadership seem to be very much in the air these days, not least this week. Sepp Blatter’s re-election seemed extraordinary to many of us, like a newly invented alloy that never wears out whatever is thrown at it or how bent it is. Indeed, it…
Acts 2:1-21 Louis Armstrong is best remembered for how and what he played, rather than for anything that he said. By and large, he let his trumpet do the talking, as it were. But he did come out with a few memorable remarks. My favourite is: ‘If you haven’t got it in you, you can’t…
Pause for Thought for 21 April 2021 is now available: