This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Psalm 63:4 and we sing Great is your faithfulness (unchanging)
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I’m currently putting together a ‘Songs of Praise’ programme. In the light of this, I asked a friend what would be their hymn choice. His response was ‘And did those feet….’. This got me thinking. Is ‘Jerusalem’ a hymn? It’s a very rousing song – some would say it’s England’s second national anthem. Depending on…
We are now many weeks after Easter and all the Easter eggs are probably long gone. Did you know that chocolate was around over 1400 years ago? 600AD – Mayans drank a cold drink made from cacao beans 1325AD – Aztecs make a drink with honey and cocoa. They believed that eating cacao beans gave…
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C 19th June 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 65 v1-9; Psalm 22 v19-28; Galatians 3 v23-29; Luke 8 v26-39. ‘But the people were terrified’ (Luke 8 v35d) In the gospel reading for today we read of Jesus healing a man possessed by ‘many demons’. This poor man had been…
The Most Reluctant Convert : the untold story of CS LewisDVD – Fellowship for Performing Arts, 2021 74 minutes £12.99 This is a quite excellent production, superbly acted and filmed in and around Oxford, showing the progress of the life of CS Lewis from ‘hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Christian author of the past…
Amidst all the pomp and ceremony of the Jubilee weekend celebrations, the BBC managed to hit us with two and half minutes of pure genius and we saw maybe the best bit of television our nation saw in a long time, as the queen invited Paddington Bear to Buckingham Palace for high tea and in…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 147 v 4. Astronomers used Australia’s largest optical telescope to map 100,000 galaxies that surround our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The 3-dimensional map covers 5% of the sky and allows us to see 4 billion light-years deep into space. The number of stars included defies our imagination,…
Four years ago I was travelling back from Scotland. We reached Northumberland and the road we wanted to travel on was closed. We were diverted across the North Pennines, and came across a gem of a village, Blanchland. Whilst planning our summer holidaying June this year, we decided to make Blanchland our “stopover” on our…
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin, a significant figure in early American history, coined a phrase that is still quoted today. He said, ‘Nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Sunday 12th June is Tax Justice Sunday; an opportunity for churches simultaneously to address the two certainties that Benjamin Franklin spoke of. We have a gospel that…
1 Corinthians 13 – A paraphrase IF I have the language never so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not the knack of love that grips the heart, I am nothing. IF I have decorations and diplomas and am proficient in all up to date methods and have not …