Morning Worship

Luke 23:32-34 Job 2:11-13 Micah 6:1-8 No one can deny the power of a good court room drama, whether it’s Rumpole of the Bailey, a classic film or play like Agatha Christie’s Witness for the prosecution, to finding out what’s going to happen to Brian Aldridge shortly at Borchester Crown Court. We hear charges of…

Deuteronomy 26:12-13 James 1:26-27 Even by Monday evening, there was already an internet campaign for the re-broadcasting of the Oxo television adverts, the day Lynda Bellingham died. National treasure has been over-used to the point of becoming meaningless, but Lynda Bellingham was certainly a popular and much loved actress and television presenter. I think those…

Acts 2:1-21 Louis Armstrong is best remembered for how and what he played, rather than for anything that he said. By and large, he let his trumpet do the talking, as it were. But he did come out with a few memorable remarks. My favourite is: ‘If you haven’t got it in you, you can’t…

Pause for Thought is available here:https://youtu.be/BUjbqVXl4_w

Matthew 7:24-27 1 Corinthians 3:1-14 Most of us grew up making sand castles at one time or another.  These days the buckets and spades are plastic, but children still make the sand castles of their childhood dreams.  Sand castles, of course, are about much more than just children with a bucket and spade.  At Brighton,…

Desmond Tutu used to say that if people told him that politics and religion didn’t go together, he wondered what Bible they were reading, because the Bible he read was full of politics. Today we find that politics is at the heart of our praying, because if “your kingdom come” has any meaning at all,…