Follow the Star – Advent Trail 2020
Follow the Star – our Advent trail for 2020 begins on 1 December. An Advent calendar emerges in different places around Farnham. See if you can see them all!
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Follow the Star – our Advent trail for 2020 begins on 1 December. An Advent calendar emerges in different places around Farnham. See if you can see them all!
Theme introduction Luke 5:12-16 Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy.* When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, ‘Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.’ Then Jesus*stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, ‘I do choose. Be…
Psalm 78:1-7 Matthew 9:35 -10:10 With the best will in the world, I hope this will be our last Church Anniversary! I don’t mean that I hope we’ll have closed, nor that we give up remembering where we’ve come from, as it shapes where we’re going, but I hope it’s our last Church Anniversary because…
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 72 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 Borders can cause all sorts of problems. In many ways, many borders around the world are totally artificial, and that shows in the chaos which ensues. In 1787, the Treaty of Paris basically laid out which British territories would go to the freshly victorious American rebels,…
Luke 1:26-38 You are going to have a baby! Years ago young women heard those words from their doctor. Nowadays they usually find out for themselves in a toilet when the second line appears. However one finds out, the news of an impending birth is often a cue for joy, excitement, and intense satisfaction. Perhaps…
Galatians 2:1-14 I heard a story of three ministers who went on a fishing trip together. They rowed out to the middle of the lake, and the United Reformed Church Minister realised he’d forgotten his fishing line, hopped out of the boat and walked across the water to get it, and back again. Then the…
Psalm 30 John 21:1-19 If you’re in a boat, and look in towards Crosby beach, in Lancashire, you’ll see an Antony Gormley sculpture on the beach. If you at the beach at Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, you’ll see a memorial sculpture to Benjamin Britten. If you look at Brighton beach, well, you get everything you deserve!…