Harvest
Rev Deborah’s Harvest Sermon at St Margaret’s on Sunday 6 October was a fully interactive affair, and included a run-down of our Eco Week activities … More Harvest
Rev Deborah’s Harvest Sermon at St Margaret’s on Sunday 6 October was a fully interactive affair, and included a run-down of our Eco Week activities … More Harvest
Due to technical difficulties, we have been unable to upload audio recording of our clergy team’s sermons for a couple of months. We think we have now solved the issues … More Audio Sermons
This sermon was given my Rev Deborah on Wednesday 2 October 2019. You can listen again here: … More Priorities in Faith
I say to you, what woman, having lost her car keys, does not search the whole house, turning even the furniture upside-down until she finds those keys? Or what man, having lost the TV remote control, doesn’t shove his hand down the back of every armchair, every sofa, into the fluff and the grime and the old biscuit crumbs and rotting apple cores, until he finds and retrieves the precious thing? … More Lost and Found
Monday evening, I was rehearsing with the baptism and confirmation candidates and I was reflecting on the interplay between individual faith and the faith we share as a church … More Turning to Christ
Do you remember Hyacinth Bucket in keeping up appearances? Her main aim in life was to impress the neighbours, to get their respect by being wealthier, better dressed, a better baker of cakes … More Keeping Up Appearances
One of the things I ask churches when I’m visiting to take a service is to be very clear about which bits I am leading, and which fall to somebody else. Readings, prayers, welcomes, notices, setting up the altar. It can all get very complicated and confusing, so I like to know who’s doing what … More Confirmation Service September 2019
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet, was an English composer, probably best known for stirring hymns and anthems such as “Jerusalem” and “I Was Glad” … More “There is a Country Far Beyond the Stars” Parry (1848-1918)
Like many of the pieces I write about in this blog, I was introduced to this song at a rehearsal of the Manchester Chorale. We were learning it for our summer concert programme in 2018 … More I Will Come To You – M Fairbairn (b. 1986)
On Sunday 1 September 2019 at the 9.45am service, Rev Deborah treated us to a banquet … More Luke 14.1,7-14