by The Vicar | Jan 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Interestingly, after I’d already prepared a good chunk of this talk, I saw that Campbell had written on last week’s service sheet – ‘Why not volunteer for something that takes you beyond what you are used to or out of your personal comfort zone, and discover what...
by The Vicar | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
As some of you may know, Aline, Moira and myself recently did an eight week course on Christian Healing and Wholeness at Goudhurst Church. It was a really helpful and interesting course, lead by two members of the Goudhurst congregation – Faye, a lady GP and her...
by The Vicar | Jan 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.’ This claim of Jesus of Nazareth is as shocking today as it was when he first made it; but for different reasons. Then, because it was a claim to deity; today, because it is a claim...
by The Vicar | Dec 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was listening to a programme host on the radio recently talking about the meaning of Christmas. The real meaning of Christmas, he said, is ‘Goodwill to all men.’ And then he added – because he quickly realised that this sounded very sexist and politically...
by The Vicar | Dec 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
A man was walking along a cliff path one day when he tripped and fell over the edge. Reaching out he grabbed a tree root on the side and clung to it for dear life. He looked down but could not see the bottom. The tree root began to loosen. He looked up to the sky...
by The Vicar | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
So once again we’re in the season of Advent and another Christmas approaches. And this can leave us in a reflective mood, especially as we get older and we see the years passing by and we see our families also getting older and starting to raise the next generation....
