In the September 2025 Bible readings we have guidance from Jesus on resource planning; looking for things which are lost; debt management – and taking notice of good advice whilst you can.
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On top of everything else, the Sabbath had been commercialised, used for individual interest and gain. Here the prophet really goes to town, as well he might in our society today. Remember the Sabbath was to be holy. People were to do no work.
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There’s a very close relationship between the words ‘faith’ and ‘hope’. As we’ve seen they are often used interchangeably. But there is a difference.
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The Eden Singers will be bringing us the Magic of the Musicals on Saturday 13th September at 7.30pm. As well as a great evening of song, the event is a fundraiser for The Christie Charity.
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The August 2025 Bible readings include barns, treasure, division, healing, seating plans, vanity, star counting – and the perils of pride.
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Thanks to underground fungal networks, trees share water, nutrients even signs of danger. There are parallels with our lives too – and there’s something to be said about prayer and the wood-wide web.
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Between Sarah and Abraham the practice of hospitality with their guests is extra-ordinary. We don’t tend to consider the spread of food that they put on together but it’s of truly heroic, epic proportions.
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I was raised in a small village near Bridport in Dorset and, when we were small, 3 times a year,…
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The July and August 2025 magazine contains lots of updates plus articles on the Nicene Creed and the Lord’s Prayer.
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The July 2025 Bible readings include Abraham and Sarah putting on a spread and Jesus giving his disciples a template of how to pray.
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We don’t get to hear God’s inflection. So, it depends on where we put the emphasis in that question: What are you doing here?
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I will draw all the water from the sea and empty it into this hole quicker than you will succeed in containing the vast mystery of God in the mere words of a book.
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‘Ebenezer’ might be a word that sounds old and dated to our ears but this Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of the Church and this church, may the Spirit descend on us again and let today be a fresh Ebenezer—may this be a place of praise for what God has done both in this building and in each of our lives. But also a mark of trust for what’s to come.
Read moreThis article looks at the body through the lens of disability. I use two discourses to balance out and correct misapprehensions and misunderstandings. These discourses are the academic discourse and my own story. This article is inspired by the gap in Living in love and faith (2020) of the body, there being no reference to the body as body in this report.
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