Good Friday Service 2021
Our service for Good Friday is available now:
Our service for Good Friday is available now:
Romans 9:1-5 I used to envy those who appeared to have been born with silver spoons in their mouths. They had everything going for them, they didn’t want for anything, and their life-style always seemed to me to be exotic and sophisticated. But as I’ve grown older I’ve discovered that such people are no happier…
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…
Galatians 1:1-12 People can get angry about the smallest things. Of course it never ever happens to me – I never turn into Victor Meldew, and irascible is not my middle name, but I do see people get angry so often about such trivial things. Road rage is common, for instance, although you can understand…
Psalm 119:33-40 Matthew 7:24-17 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 In my first church at Twyford, the Church Hall was built in 1935. Money was tight in the 1930s, not least for Nonconformists in rural areas, so they built the hall as cheaply as they could. The foundations, if they merit that word, were on brick deep. The…
You may remember that Mr Mackay explained the rules of Slade Prison to a new prisoner in an episode of Porridge: “There are only two rules in this prison: 1 – do not write on the walls. 2 – You obey all the rules.” Fletcher explained the rules of Slade Prison rather differently: One: Bide…
Job 38:1-11 Mark 4:35-41 There is a story about a monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff several hundred feet in the air. The only way to reach the monastery was to be suspended in a basket which was pulled to the top by several monks who pulled and tugged with all their strength….