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
Shared by our minister Rev Dr Phil Wall Shame Reading Genesis 2:21 – 3:8 Sermon In his latest book, Welsh journalist Jon Ronson looks at the escalating epidemic of public shaming in society and online. In , ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed’, he interviews everyone from pastors to porn stars about their experience […]
GARDENS Readings: Genesis: 2:7-10, 15; Revelation 21:1-4, 22:1-5 Sermon This morning we were going to start our service with John Henson’s hymn ‘Summer suns are glowing’! Hmm! Well, in spite of flash floods, threatened dams, high winds and cancelled festivals, it is, supposedly, British summer time! To be fair, over the last couple […]
Family Talk: Are you going on holiday? What will you make sure you take with you? Camera … bathing costume … toys (how many …? Your school clothes … the television … the beds … the furniture? When going on holiday, you have to think quite carefully about what you need. You mustn’t leave […]