The Vicars Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Christ. If...

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 Jesus...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...