Forest Church – 13 December 2020

Genesis 3:1-19 Matthew 4:1-11 Though Life will rob me of my childhood days, And hedge a way for free, unbidden feet, It cannot steal my childhood thoughts and lays, Nor break the spell that lets me hear the beat Of Nature’s heart, and catch her whisper sweet. Solace, by Ruby Archer The process of growing…

John 14:1-5, 18-19, 27 While we worship God in here this evening, we know many children are out and about in all manner of strange costumes, some of them with their parents or older brothers and sisters, playing trick or treat. We might not immediately think so, but there is a very close connection between…

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…

2 Samuel 11:26-12:10, 13:1 Luke 7:36-8.3 In the winter of 1642, a tiny baby was born prematurely to his widowed mother in a rural Lincolnshire hamlet. When he was three, his mother remarried and left him the care of his grandmother. He grew up to be Isaac Newton, who laid the foundations much of modern…

When you seek me you will find me if you seek me with all your heart. – Jeremiah 29:13 Luke 11:1-4, Ephesians 6:10-20 We are gathered to consider prayer.  What’s it all about? Well it’s very important for Christians.  It was very important for Jesus, then surely it’s important for us. And yet, as I’ve…

Mark 13:32-37 Isaiah 9:2,6-7 The bells of waiting Advent ring, the tortoise stove is lit again, begins John Betjeman’s famous poem. If you go into our Church Hall, you can still see the stone slab where the tortoise stove once stood. If you think our church is too modern, at least we kept the slab….