Category: Nurture

We ask God to change us. So that remembrance becomes more than looking backwards. So that our remembering makes us people of peace. So that the names carved into stone are not simply names from the past, but voices calling us towards a different future.

This November 2026 magazine includes reflections on Remembrance Day as well as updates from our groups and news of upcoming events. Plus there’s a letter from Rosemary Taylor…

November’s readings invite us to celebrate God’s faithful people, live justly and faithfully, use our gifts wisely, recognise Christ in those in need, and begin Advent watchfully, with hope and expectation.

So, on Bible Sunday, we pray, “Thank you for the gift of your word. Open our eyes to see its truth, our hearts to feel its grace and our hands to live it out in service to others.” 

I couldn’t resist those words from Isaiah: ‘strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.’
Looking around this morning, I’m sure many of us would directly benefit if such a prayer were answered…

We’re learning to taste again – the sweetness of grace, the freshness of hope, and the unexpected goodness of a future that has not yet been written. For the God who has brought us this far is not finished with us yet.

May you discover that Christ is already speaking over you the name you are still growing into.

May your life become a place of hospitality, where others, too, discover that the grace of God is never measured in crumbs, but always in love that keeps making room.

Elijah hears God in silence after a storm. Peter hears Christ above the storm. Paul reminds us that faith begins with hearing. Different stories but the same invitation – and that is to listen again and hear the voice.

Both passages ask us to move from scarcity to trust. Both invite us to stop measuring life solely by what we lack. Both remind us that God’s economy is different from our own. And both point us toward a God whose first instinct with us is one of invitation: “Come and Eat”

The Bible readings for August 2026 take us on a journey of discipleship.

The invitation is to ask for a listening heart. To learn to notice the kingdom already growing among us. To trust that when words fail, the Spirit continues praying. And to become people through whom others begin to glimpse the hidden riches of heaven.

Isaiah says: “Do not fear.” Those words are not simply reassurance. They are an invitation to trust the One whose vision stretches far beyond our own. Because the future of the field does not depend upon our anxiety, but upon God’s faithfulness. It’s a field of mercy.

The July and August 2026 magazine is a bumper summer edition with a letter from Margaret Trivasse about the Christian imperative to ‘Love, Welcome, Serve’.

God’s grace patiently transforms both people and creation. The readings move from weariness to rest, from seed to harvest, from waiting to hope, and from wisdom to the immeasurable value of God’s kingdom, encouraging us to trust God’s quiet but faithful work in our lives.