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.
Psalm 90 Malachi 4:1-2 Luke 21:5-19 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Those time-honoured words of Isaac Watts are sung at most Remembrance Sunday services, because they put our fleeting mortality into the context of God’s eternity. Watts…
Matthew 10:40-42 Exodus 22:21-23 Hebrews 13:1-2 There is a well-known story about two British sailors who, finding themselves at a loose end in Copenhagen on a Sunday morning, decide to go to church. Being unfamiliar with Lutheran services and speaking no Danish, they spot a young man sitting in front of them and they decide…
Genesis 18:1-15 Genesis 35:1-7 Luke 24: 13 – 35 A burglar broke into a house and was looking around. He heard a soft voice say, “Jesus is watching you”. Thinking it was just his imagination, he continued his search. Again the voice said, “Jesus is watching you”. He turned his flashlight around and saw a…
Genesis 1: 1–2:4a Matthew 6: 24-34 An educational psychologist got on the train home to Edinburgh, and began preparing notes for a seminar. An elderly lady sat next to him, and explained that she was returning home after two weeks visiting her six children, 18 grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren. When she discovered she was sitting…
Matthew 2:1-12 Well, I suspect that for many of us feel Christmas is well and truly over now, even though there’s officially a few more days yet. Many people’s work, school, or college, begins again by tomorrow, if it ever even stopped. The final party was on New Year’s Eve, the next day was a…
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…