On Sunday 17th November we were very pleased to welcome Phil George as our guest preacher. He kindly gave permission for his sermon to be on our website! Readings Malachi 4, vv 1-2a. Luke 21, vv 5-19 Sermon ‘The end is nigh’ says the evangelical board carried through the town. ‘We’re doomed’, says […]
The Berlin Wall This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; reflected on the walls of division we build in our lives; and thanked God for divine diversity… Readings: Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-4, 14-18 Sermon The origin myths in the book of Genesis were never […]
Revd Samantha Sheehan – Reflection Sam trained alongside Phil (who introduced and then married her to her husband, Peter) at Westminster college and after a first pastorate in Kent, she now works as the URC chaplain at Leeds University and as URC ‘minister to young people’. This is her reflection. Readings Job 2.11-13 […]
Reading: Jeremiah 32: 1-15 Sermon George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet and novelist is best known by many as the man who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a quote ironically often mis-remembered yet one which can be found in history departments up and down the country as […]
Shame – part 2 We heard part 1 on September 8th Readings: Genesis 2:21 – 3:13; Mark 12:28-31 For the majority of the Church’s history, most Christians had greater access to Bible stories through art than they did through the written word and whilst some of these decorative depictions are profound, others are […]
Picnics and Praise On Sunday we gave thanks for the God of new beginnings as we prayed for all those who work, play and learn alongside children and young people – including our junior church and kids’ club; Honeybeez, brownies, guides and rangers; and all those in our congregation who work with young people and […]
feeding the five thousand, open the book