‘Midnight Mass’
The service for ‘midnight mass’ is now available:
The service for ‘midnight mass’ is now available:
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…
Genesis 12:1-9 Hebrews 11:1-3 & 8-12 Psalm 91 Mark 1:16-20 This year is a leap year. 29 February is a special day which comes round only once every four years. 29 February is considered by some as a day to do something out of the usual, such as women proposing marriage to men. Radio 4’s…
Acts 9:1-20 One of Shakespeare’s more famous speeches is given to Portia in The Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. If you take those words and…
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!
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…
Matthew 13:24-30 Romans 8:12-25 Where was God in the trenches of the First World War? From Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (Woodbine Willie) to Siegfried Sassoon, great minds have wrestled with what was effectively the first industrialised war in human history. But as we rapidly approach the centenary of the ‘war to end all wars’ we are…