Morning Worship – Sunday 29 November 2020

A video from this morning’s worship is now available our the Spire Church YouTube channel, or directly below. Please email michael@spirechurchfarnham.org.uk if you want the zoom code to join us next Sunday, or find us on our Spire Church YouTube channel.

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…

Luke 2.22-40 On 12 February 1809 a baby boy was born in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor on a farm in Kentucky.  He grew up to be a man of rugged determination.  And although he had less than a year of formal education, he succeeded in becoming a lawyer.  However he really wanted to make…

Matthew 12:1-14 Canticle: A song of Love (R&S 753) Joshua 2:1-7 and 6:12-17 Hebrews 11:29-31 We all love a happy ending, and we finally got one, when Ashya King’s parents were freed from prison, and re-united with their obviously beloved son. Except the happy ending isn’t really, because all know that Ashya’s chances of surviving…

In Wales and Scotland many road signs are bilingual. There are several road signs in Wales which, famously, make sense in English, but for which the Welsh, when translated back into English, reads, “Thank you for emailing the translation department. We will respond to your email when we reopen on 19 October”. Likewise, there is…

Joel 2:21-29 Luke 4:14-21 145 years ago our ancestors laid the foundation stone of this edifice. The fourth building we’ve occupied, and one designed and located to tell the world that we’re a true church with a permanent presence. There can be a tendency on a Church Anniversary to think quite specifically about our building,…