Sunday Worship for 2 May 2021

Acts 1:1-11 Luke 24:44-53 Perhaps some of you remember Sputnik going into space in 1957, and then in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin made that first manned space flight. Apparently some were concerned that the godless Russian might use his craft to break physically into heaven. Others pointed out that Gagarin was not the first person…

Ephesians 1:15-23 When you read a job description, it tells you the qualifications that you need for the job. For instance, if you want to teach French, you need to be able to speak French. If you want to be a solicitor, you need a legal qualification. If you want to be a driver, you…

2 Samuel 11:26-12:10, 13:1 Luke 7:36-8.3 In the winter of 1642, a tiny baby was born prematurely to his widowed mother in a rural Lincolnshire hamlet. When he was three, his mother remarried and left him the care of his grandmother. He grew up to be Isaac Newton, who laid the foundations much of modern…

Jeremiah 11:18-20 Mark 9:30-37   I’m told that in Harrogate crèche is what’s happened when you’ve driven into another car, and sex is what the coal is delivered in.  Harrogate acquired its fame because of the spa water, and people came to take the waters for all manner of troubles.  This was no quick fix:…

Psalm 103:8-13 Matthew 18:21-33 Forgiveness is outrageous. In our society where might makes right, a society of myriad victims, forgiveness seems crazy. Right here is surely where the Lord’s Prayer is most difficult to pray. Perhaps that’s why this is the longest and the most involved petition in the Lord’s Prayer. As usual, it first…

Part 1 Luke 1:46-53 If you go up to London, you can see this world’s kingdom, power, and glory all set out before you in stone and glass: the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, the Shard, and so on. As in the capital of any nation, the principalities and the powers are…