Sunday Worship – 24 January 2021

John 13:34-35 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Today is a Sunday most preachers dread. It’s almost impossible not to offend or upset someone. Some celebrate, and others endure. For some it is an especially joyful occasion to give thanks for mothers, for others it is a difficult and painful time, in so many different ways. A teacher…

John 2:1-11 1 Kings 17:8-16 I’ve trained my dog to bring me a glass of red wine. It’s a Bordeaux collie. Of course, not everyone knows very much about wine. As Basil Fawlty said, “the kind of people who come in here don’t know the difference between a Bordeaux and a claret”. Martin Luther, one…

When I was a child, our local cathedral was Coventry Cathedral. We weren’t Church of England and we didn’t go there all the time, but it was the local cathedral, and it was where we went from time to time. The cathedral was consecrated on 25 May 1962, so this the anniversary week. What you…

Psalm 103 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 There was a Rabbi who once remarked that every morning people should get on their knees and thank God that they’re still on their two feet. Today we’re saying thank you, thank you to everyone in the church and thank you to God.  Our psalm is an outpouring of thanksgiving…

John 15:9-17 Ephesians 3:14-19 Eric Lomax was born in 1919, and served as a signals officer in Singapore, when he was captured in 1942 and made a prisoner of war at Kanchanaburi camp in Thailand. He suffered horrendous torture at the hands of guards after they found a radio receiver and a map he had…

Luke 10:30-37 John 8:31-38 Galatians 5:1, 13-21 “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” And the same applies to the word ‘freedom’. Whenever we start talking about ‘freedom’ we very soon realise that we may…