Sunday Service for 18 April 2021

Ezekiel 1:1, 4-10, 22-28a Revelation 4:1:1-11 Tonight isn’t about literal truth, or about logic or proof, but about visions. Ezekiel said, “I was among the exiles by the River Chebar; the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God”. In Revelation we read, “after this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood…

Mark 10:32-45 If ever there was a moment when the disciples didn’t get it, this is it. Jesus has just gone through yet another explanation about his death and all that that entails and he’s as graphic as he ever gets in describing his death. It’s as if all of that goes right over the…

Genesis 4:8-15 Micah 4:1-4 John 15:12-17 In the years after the First World War, war memorials were a contentious subject. Not whether there should be any, but where they should be sited, what form they should take, and whose names were to be included or excluded. But then, if you watch Downton Abbey you know…

Luke 13:22-30 I wonder if you remember Roald dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected, in which the story had an unexpected ending. I remember one, where an unscrupulous antiques dealer was trying so hard to persuade a farmer that the unique and almost priceless antique wasn’t really worth much, that while the antique dealer went to…

There was once a grumpy old man, who said that: “There are some people to whom I couldn’t warm to even if I were cremated with them!” Before we go any further, I ought to make it clear that Christians are not called to like everyone. The goes “They Will Know We Are Christians By…

Matthew 5:13-16 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 Isaiah 58:6-12 Doctors are, quite rightly, regularly telling us of the dangers of too much, and many of add far less salt to our food, and use far less salt in cooking. However, no one can live without salt. Sodium and chloride ions are a vital component of a halthly…