
Sunday Sermon 27th March
The Lost Son (Mothering Sunday) 27/3/22 Welcome to our reflection for 27th March. This is meant to be Mothering Sunday, and yet the sermon isn’t about mothers. The reason for that is originally Mothering Sunday was never about mothers. It was a time when the rich of the land let their servants have a free day where they could go back to their mother church. Often that was doubled up with a visit to the graves of the family. It was more a time when we reflect on our place in t

Sunday Sermon 20th March
Call to Worship Come, all you who are struggling. Come, all you who are worried or anxious or bewildered. Come to worship a God who heals your hurts. Come to worship a God who gives forgiveness. Let us worship God, who sets us free and gives us new life! Reading: Luke 13: 1-9 (NRSV translation) Repent or Perish 13 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, ‘Do you think that

Sunday Sermon 13th March - Communion
Welcome to our reflection for 13th March. In the space of a week we have moved from just before the start of Jesus’ ministry, to near the end of Jesus’ ministry. That is what Lent is like. Three decades have passed. Jesus had the choice at the start to take the quick fix of power and influence and wealth to achieve his aims. Now three years later instead of ruling the world with Jerusalem at its centre, he is weeping over its path of self destruction. But where does that leav

Sunday Service 6th March
Temptations 6/3/22 Welcome to our reflection for 6th March. We have just started to move into Lent, the time of preparation for Easter. In Lent we start to follow Christ’s journey to the cross and resurrection, seeking ourselves to go on a journey of faith where we might see why Christ would do that for us and find our own spiritual path. Today we look at temptations that Jesus had to face at the start of his ministry and how he had to reflect on what kind of leader he was go