Our service for 9 May 2021 is now available, which is a service for Christian Aid Week. If you haven’t yet given to Christian Aid, you can do so using this link:
https://giving.tapsimple.org/online/christian-aid/christian-aid-week-2021-bf4b3
Luke 1:5-64 What did the preacher say when he’d lost his voice? Nothing. He’d lost his voice. Our reading from Luke is all about lost and found. Mary finds her voice and sings a song for the ages. Tied up with her story is another story about a man who first loses, and then later…
Luke 11 “Teach us to pray!” Jesus’ disciples asked him. Sadly, teaching anyone to pray isn’t like teaching someone how to change a wheel, or to bake a cake, or even how to do a fractional of liquid air. Being a Christian is not primarily learning a set of beliefs, belong to a volunteer organisation,…
Matthew 10:40-42 Exodus 22:21-23 Hebrews 13:1-2 There is a well-known story about two British sailors who, finding themselves at a loose end in Copenhagen on a Sunday morning, decide to go to church. Being unfamiliar with Lutheran services and speaking no Danish, they spot a young man sitting in front of them and they decide…
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…
1 Samuel 8:1-22 Her father was an alcoholic. Her mother worked most all the time. She had little choice. Her brother had recently been killed. Things were chaotic at home. She felt she had to get out. So she decided she could finish school later. After all, the guy she was dating had asked her…
Jeremiah 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-36 I wonder if you’ve ever been on one of those car journeys where you’ve finally got everything and everyone loaded up, and ready to go, and finally get on your way much later than you hoped. At this rate you won’t be there until midnight. And then, after you’ve barely got…