Last week we were thinking about how God created the earth and all living things. We ended the readings just before he made human beings, Adam and Eve, which we have heard about today and he gives them dominion over all living things that moved on the earth. Quite a big undertaking when you think about it to be given the care of a beautiful garden and everything that lives in it … More Creationtide – Humanity
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 8 September – the second in the season of Creationtide – in which we consider humanity.
Rev Sue presides and Rev Christine will preach.
We begin with the hymn “There is a longing in our hearts” … More Creationtide week 2: Humanity
When I was training to be a priest I trained alongside members of the Methodist church and you think we’re all Christians, this is going to be fine. Despite being from two different denominations we had a lot of classes together, the same biblical study, doctrine, mission and ministry but get down to the everyday of doing things that’s when our differences started to become a bit clearer and there were a few friendly and not so friendly debates … More Why can’t we all just get on and do as Jesus asked?
I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to start this letter when I was asked to write about my journey to becoming a Deacon, (a person who serves), then I thought, “yes I do” know how to start it … More Being a deacon
Good morning and welcome to our service of All Age Worship for Sunday 1 September. We begin the season of Creationtide by thinking about the earth. Rev Steve will preach, and Rev Sue presides.
We begin with the hymn “How Great Thou Art” … More Creationtide week 1: Earth
You’ve probably noticed these graphics on our weekly service sheets recently, but what are they? It’s a QR code. QR codes are clever bits of technology – a bit like bar codes – that link the real world with the online world … More Give a Little
Regular readers will know how important music is to me, and much has been said about the importance of music in worship over recent weeks – in a weekly course, in our church services and in magazine articles. It has been all the more poignant for the long absence of music from our worship, and its reintroduction at the end of July … More When is a ‘Performance’ not a ‘Performance’?
I’m going to start with a question: Just want you to think about this for a moment. What is your favourite food? Is it something sweet or something savoury? Something that you make sure you have a lot or something that you treat yourself too occasionally? Is it making your mouth water just thinking about it, I know it is mine, nice piece of Lamb lovely … More Food when we’re hungry
I’m sure many of you will have or have had a pet at some point in your life. In our house when I was younger we were limited to smaller animals, like rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters anything without a tail that was my mums only rule. However I have been round to other friends houses and seen other pets. … More Even those who get the crumbs
I don’t remember a lot about RE when I was at school but I can remember at A Level doing a module on the gospel of John and my teacher telling us we were doing a lesson on I am’s … More The Great ‘I Am’s’
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