Easter Earlybird Service 2021
Our Earlybird service for Easter 2021 is now available. If you want to join in an interactive prayer, you’ll need some string, 2 sticks, 1 stone, and 2 small pieces of cloth.
Our Earlybird service for Easter 2021 is now available. If you want to join in an interactive prayer, you’ll need some string, 2 sticks, 1 stone, and 2 small pieces of cloth.
Matthew 2:1-12 Deep beneath the Bodleian Library in Oxford, there are many rooms of movable book stacks. Hardly any of the Bodleian’s collection is on open shelves, and most have to be ordered. You used to fill in a little slip, and an hour or so later your book would be ready for you. However,…
On Sunday 3 September 1939, the Elders at what was then St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Walton-on-Thames had a arranged for a wireless to be brought into the church, and at around 11.15 am the whole congregation was able to listen to that famous speech by Neville Chamberlain announcing the start of World War Two….
Mark 11:1-11 A voice from the Crowd I don’t know why l did it – didn’t then, didn’t now. Don’t look at me like that. You’d have done it too, if you’d been there. The city was heaving – one great mass of squashed-together humanity. There must have been two, three hundred thousand there, even…
Matthew 28:16-20 Isaiah 40:12-17, 27-31 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 If you’ve come wanting a learned lecture on doctrine, you’ll be disappointed. If you’ve come expecting a history lesson, you’ll be disappointed. If you’ve come expecting scientific explanations or logic deductions, or things empirically provable, you’ll be disappointed. If you’ve come expecting not to understand a word…
What’s your name? Why were you given that name? What does it mean? Maybe you have several names. Why were you given those? What do they mean? Maybe you have children. What did you call them? Why? What do their names mean? There’s a long tradition of giving people names which mean something. We see…
Pause for Thought for 9 December 2020 is available now: