by The Vicar | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reading – Psalm 78 Today and on two further Sundays in July, I will be talking about ‘family life and faith’, and 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...
by The Vicar | Jun 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
So today is Pentecost when we remember and celebrate the person of the Holy Spirit coming upon the first disciples to empower them to carry on Jesus’ work.And this morning I’d just like to say a few words about the Holy Spirit and Pentecost and why we also need to be...
by The Vicar | May 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A lot of people have a lot of problems believing in the Christian faith. This isnot a modern phenomenon; it has always been the case. It is today, it was inmedieval times, it was in the first century AD or, so as not to upset the secularatheists, the first century...
by The Vicar | May 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Just to recap, in the previous two chapters, Luke has told us about the events surrounding Jesus’ birth and early life, but also about how his cousin John the Baptist came to be born. And as we move into chapter 3 we see John the Baptist starting to fulfil the mission...
by The Vicar | Mar 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Most of us, most of the time, tend to act on the basis of what we believe to be the truth. Of course, we can all make mistakes about that! We can be misled, we can be ill-informed. But by and large most of us tend to act on the basis of what we believe to be the...
by The Vicar | Feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
As those of you have been here on the last few Sundays will know, we have been looking at one of the ‘letters’ preserved in the New Testament which was written to one of the very first early churches by the Apostle John, the intimate friend and disciple of Jesus,...