The Vicars Blog

Do you sometimes think to yourself - there must be more to Christianity than this? You hear bible passages that speak of streams of living water flowing in your life and of experiencing love and joy and peace. You hear of God working through people and touching...

Today of course is Palm Sunday when Christians celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus, God made flesh, into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. On Palm Sunday the Jewish crowds acclaimed him as their Messiah but a few days later they were calling for his crucifixion....

I’m sure all of you know – or at least I hope you know – someone whose integrity and sincerity you both admire and value: someone you reckon you can trust – even if you know they are not perfect and, like all of us, have their flaws and failings: yet, nevertheless,...

This well-known encounter between Jesus and Nicodemus raises some very interesting and challenging questions but also some very rewarding and encouraging information about Jesus and about ourselves. It highlights the difference and the distance between those who are...

In order to give you a better ‘feel’ for the kind of people Paul was dealing with in Corinth you will find it very helpful to read at least chapter one of his First Letter to the Corinthians, a letter he wrote in response to some of the ‘goings on’ in that church...

As we continue our voyage through the Book of Acts, we come to chapter 18 and Paul’s arrival in 50 AD in the city of Corinth, some 50 miles South West of Athens from whence he had just come. It was a very cosmopolitan centre of commerce and it had a terrible...

Pray for Syria  26/01/2014 In July, a Catholic priest was executed by Islamist forces and in August, rebel gunmen killed 11 Christians in a driveby shooting as they celebrated a feast day. More recently, reports are emerging of 30 dead bodies being found in mass...

Acts Chapter 17 verses 1 – 9      Paul and Silas reach Thessalonica ‘These people have been turning the world upside down’. This was the claim of those who dragged poor Jason and some other believers before the city authorities, as we learn in...

On 25th September 1915, the first day of the fighting at the battle of Loos, Captain Anketell Read of the First Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, was killed while leading his men in the most ferocious fighting. For his conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice,...

Acts Chapter 15: 1 – 10 One or two people have been asking why we are continuing to plough through the Book of Acts. Well, the answer, quite simply, is that if we take seriously what we learn from it, then it will help us considerably in our calling, our calling by...

As we continue our look at the book of Acts, we read today about the Apostle Paul’s journey from darkness to light. This describes how in his spiritual blindness Paul encountered Jesus – the light of the world – and then of course went on to become an ambassador of...

I do hope that you are finding the Book of Acts which we have been studying recently both stimulating and encouraging. I hope that through reading it and, if you have not been able to make the two study groups, through spending some quality time on the questions we...