Follow the Star – Advent Trail 2020

Luke 18:9-14 People often assume that the purpose of religion is to make people good.  You may remember the Good Friday hymn There is a green hill far away with its line He died to make us good.  And sometimes it is said of the dead, Even though he did not attend church, he was…

Matthew 28:16-20 Last year I said that I hoped this would be our last Church Anniversary, not because we’d have closed, but because I hoped we might have united with Farnham Methodist Church, and become one new church. If only we’d been able to hold our Church meeting a few weeks ago, I might have…

Matthew 16:21-28 Self-denial’s clearly an important element of tonight’s reading. That isn’t something that’s really compatible with life in the 21st century. I suppose it’s about as popular a topic as defending the ice cream sabotaging super villain from last week’s episode the Great British Bake Off. However, we cannot avoid that in tonight’s reading…

Luke 3:15-17,21-22, Psalm 29, Isaiah 43:1-7 We seem to be going through a period of tremendous storms at the moment in so many different areas right now, don’t we? First there is the wind and the floods. Communities and homes across northern England devastated by floodwater from rivers. Our hearts go out to all those…