Good morning and welcome. Our Worship this morning is being led by our own Michael James. Words of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942) And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the […]
Today we explore the meaning of grace as we look at one of Jesus’ parables from Luke 18, the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. It’s a little story and one of the most shocking in the New Testament. God’s grace moves in ways we find mysterious and deeply challenging. But let’s begin by singing his […]
Welcome to our on-line service. Today is our Harvest Festival, and the theme is Thanksgiving- we’ll look at the story of the one leper who went back to thank Jesus while all the rest scurried off. It’s also our Gift Day when our might consider making an extra offering to sustain the work of the […]
This morning we look at the last of our Face-to-Face encounters with Jesus, as he meets his friends Mary, Martha and Lazarus in John 11. We see here a life that nothing can destroy, love that not even death can break. But first we sing God’s praises. Now we bring to God our prayers Our […]
Welcome to our Sunday morning worship. Today we are thinking about the great test faced by the apostles as they shared the gospel out beyond their own Jewish community. But we begin, as always by singing God’s praises (with thanks to our brothers and sisters at St. Peter’s Free Church: Now we turn to God […]
Welcome to our Sunday morning worship. This week we are looking at the fact that God does not make rubbish, but we do, and how that affects our relationship with other people and with this wonderful word God has given us. But first, as always, we sing God’s praises: Let’s bring our prayers to the […]
Welcome to our Sunday morning worship on-line. Today in our series on Face to face encounters with Jesus, we look at the woman caught in adultery , a story which has received remarkably little attention down the centuries. We begin with a psalm written by the Bible’s most famous adulterer, King David: We bring our […]
Welcome to our Sunday morning worship. We continue with our series of Face to Face encounters with Jesus. This week Jesus meets a disabled man, paralysed for 38 years. Because some have been struggling to view the video of the talk, I have included an audio version just below it. But first we sing God’s […]
Welcome to our Sunday morning worship. This week we’ll be thinking about Jonah 2 and the prophet’s time in the “big fish” – but first, as always and as Jonah himself did, we are going to sing God’s praises: Now let’s turn to God in prayer: Last week we left Jonah as he was being […]
The Christians life is always and everywhere the called life, taking on board the call of God, resisting the call of the opposition. Today we are going to look at how one man, Jonah, responded to God’s claim upon his life. But first we begin by singing God’s praises … And now we turn to […]