Author: stjohnstmarkchurchbury

This is vision of a future where God embraces the eunuch and the foreigner and gives them a place within his house – a place to abide.

One of the little angels at my home church in Bury came up with these questions for her Sunday School…

As one preacher puts it, the resurrection ‘is the testimony of God about Jesus Christ…it’s God’s Amen to the life of his Son Jesus Christ.’

The April 2024 magazine is now available. Inside you’ll find a letter from our soon-to-be Vicar, Harvie Nicol, and a report on an Iftar meal.

The Bible readings for April 2024 include passages about Jesus, both before and after the resurrection, plus the early life of the church.

Jeremiah has a reputation for being a miserable so-and-so. He isn’t often known for bringing for bringing hope and comfort.

Happy Mothering Sunday. Take a look around. Each of us gathered here by Jesus to see and discover others who are, or will be, family with us.

Our March 2024 magazine includes prayers and reflections for Easter as well as an advert for help from Christians against Poverty

The Bible readings for March 2024 include the mothering of three women to the one baby, God forgiving us and the empty tomb on Easter Sunday.

He dazzles in his white T-shirt with two mortals who are now residents of heaven. And a voice from heaven says: “This is my Son, the Beloved”

‘Rather than give something up, could we do something more?’ So asks Margery in her letter in our February 2024…

The encounter of Jesus with Simeon and Anna is one such moment. Our author is Luke, the master storyteller, and he’s setting his stall out.

The Bible readings for February 2024 include Elijah in a whirl, God giving a covenant to Noah, re-naming Abram and Jesus getting a make-over

Our readings are about being called and known. Our Gospel has Jesus telling Nathaniel to ‘come and see’. Our Psalm tells us that we are known from the womb. In the OT, Samuel is repeatedly called.

The wise men also teach us that being a seeker is active not passive. It doesn’t just happen while we twiddle our thumbs doing nothing.