Tag: Margery Spencer

Com is with, fort is strength. Comforter, one who brings strength. Someone who would make them strong would come to them.

Our May 2025 magazine has news and updates from our groups and organisations plus a letter on second chances from Margery

Do we live according to that boiled down verse: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that each of us might have eternal life?

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

What sort of witness must I have been for Jesus? Not a very good one. Let’s pray, especially at Christmas time, that we are not afraid to speak and act in ways that show we believe that, in that birth in Bethlehem, the Saviour of the World was born.

Whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.

In the May 2023 magazine you’ll find news and views of what’s going on, updates on the Mission Community plus info on the Coronation Weekend.

I may not have recognised my husband, but an ordinary act at the start of a meal showed Cleopas and his companion that they were in the presence of the risen Christ.

Do we not want to understand what being born again means? Do we think we are alright with God, that our place in the kingdom is assured?

Do you ever have those days when you really have to stick at something, to show perseverance, when you would much rather simply give in!  I have had one of those last week when I had to sort out our television licence.

Seeing is believing. Or is it? Do we believe everything we read in the newspapers or see on television or on film. Not always and rightly so.

Jesus was bathed in light and there were two Old Testament figures: Moses and Elijah. The disciples were bewildered. How to respond?

For us there’s always forgiveness, no matter what we’ve done, how far we’ve strayed or how many times we have erred. God forgives every time.

Today’s gospel story is of a brief encounter – an encounter between Jesus and the woman of Samaria at Jacob’s well. And just as for Celia Johnson’s character in the film, it was a turning point in the life of that woman…

Here’s our March 2020 church magazine. There are thoughts about Lent and Mothering Sunday plus more on the upcoming 250th celebrations for St John’s. Also lots of news and views from our various groups as well as this letter from our Reader Emeritus Margery Spencer…