Sunday Worship for 17 January 2021
Worship for Sunday 17 January is now available:
Worship for Sunday 17 January is now available:
Mark 1:1-8 Isaiah 40:1-11 A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and asked his father as to when they could discuss his use of the car. His father said he’d make a deal with his son, “you bring your grades up from a C to a B, study your Bible a little, get…
Acts 1:1-11 Luke 24:44-53 Is the ascension a fictional story of something that couldn’t have happened, written by people in an age when they still thought the earth was flat, of no relevance to us today? Or is it – although impossible to explain in modern rational and scientific terms – a literal truth? The…
Proverbs 25:6-7 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:7-14 Who should pay for the food provided at Farnham Foodbank? Or for the homeless shelters in Woking and Guildford? There’s a growing trend which says that people should only get what they pay for. Yet the Foodbank and the night shelters can only happen through the generosity of…
Worship for Sunday 10 January 2021 is now available:
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 It’s very easy to make three serious mistakes about Pentecost. The first is to assume that it doesn’t really apply in churches like this. We’re a middle-of-the-road church, people say. We’re not extreme. We’re not what is derogatively referred to as happy-clappy. We don’t all have our hands in the air…
John 21:15-19 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Today is Passion Sunday – nothing to do with sex as the council officials in Oxford mistakenly thought a few years ago when attempting to licence as passion play – but the point in Lent when we turn from the more general themes, to thinking more directly about the cross….