Sunday service for 3 January 2021
The service for Sunday 3 January 2021 is now available:
The service for Sunday 3 January 2021 is now available:
I’m told that it’s impossible to be hungry in the desert because of the sand which is everywhere. Today our readings take us into the desert, or the wilderness if you prefer (the words are the same in the Greek and Hebrew). Why is this relevant for us? Few of us regularly travel to the…
Luke 2:22-40 If you love murder mysteries you’ve never had it so good. Currently Father Brown is doing another series, Endeavour is working his way through 1960s Oxford, Midsomer Murders are still finding more corpses, and Death in Paradise is on to its sixth series. If that’s not enough excitement, and if money is no…
Genesis 41:14-36 Revelation 7:9-10 Joseph wasn’t the only dreamer. There’s a story told of a family in the late 1930s. Like so many evenings mum and dad were at home and Jimmy was playing after dinner. Mum and dad were absorbed with jobs and didn’t notice the time. It was a full moon and some…
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 I once read a murder mystery in which the secret lay in patchwork quilt in a farm in north Wales. It turned out that an old lady had inadvertently discovered a particular mathematical formula years ahead of the academics, as she had stitched together her quilt. Patchwork is what we have this…
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 In 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson published the double helix structure of DNA, which has been responsible for huge leaps forward in health care and criminal detection. It was not without its controversy as it was based upon unpublished work of Rosalind Franklin without her knowledge or consent, yet they won…
Our worship for Sunday 14 March 2021 is now available: