Good Friday Service 2021
Our service for Good Friday is available now:
Our service for Good Friday is available now:
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…
The year is 1949. The congregation in the village of Barvas on the Isle of Lewis is in a poor state. Not a single young person attended church. Two old women, one of them 84, the other 82 and blind, were greatly concerned, and made this a matter of special prayer. A verse gripped them:…
Isaiah 11:1-10 Matthew 3:1-6 “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,” said the Decca Recording Co. in 1962 as they rejected the Beatles. In 1943 the chairman of IBM announced that, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” On the same theme, in 1981 Bill…
Mark 1:1-8 Isaiah 40:1-11 A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and asked his father as to when they could discuss his use of the car. His father said he’d make a deal with his son, “you bring your grades up from a C to a B, study your Bible a little, get…
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 41:14-36 Revelation 7:9-10 Joseph wasn’t the only dreamer. There’s a story told of a family in the late 1930s. Like so many evenings mum and dad were at home and Jimmy was playing after dinner. Mum and dad were absorbed with jobs and didn’t notice the time. It was a full moon and some…