John 10: 9 to 18

In today’s gospel reading from John we have two of Jesus’ famous “I am” statements and also a very well-known bible verse – “I came so that they may have life and have it abundantly.”And this morning I’d like to look at these statements and their significance and then...

Healing and wholeness

The topic for my talk this morning is healing and wholeness and I’d like to try and give you an outline of my own limited understanding of what is a large and sometimes perplexing subject area.So, to try and set healing in some sort of context the first thing we need...

‘Grace, Mercy, and Peace’

The Third Sunday Service – September 15th 2019 Our ‘Third Sunday Service’ offers an opportunity to consider some of the main and essential elements of the Christian faith and to do so in a little more depth than perhaps our other services of worship allow. For this...

Luke 6 verses 46 to 49

Today’s gospel reading about the wise and foolish builders is a story that most of us are familiar with. And it speaks to us in two ways. It speaks to us about surviving the trials and tribulations of life, but it also speaks to us about standing and surviving God’s...

The Christian Life

This morning I’d like to follow on from what Andrew Axon said a couple of weeks ago about Christianity being a seven day a week relationship with God and not just something we pick up and dust off on a Sunday morning. I’ve called my talk ‘The Christian life’ and I...

Raising Children in the Faith – Talk 2

This morning we have the second in our little series of three talks about ‘family life and faith’, looking at how we – and when I say ‘we’ I mean the whole church family – can be involved in bringing up the next generation of children in the faith of Jesus...