Love – Gift and Choice
This Sunday we will celebrate and give thanks to God for the people we are closest to in our lives, our partners. I have always been struck by that pa [...]
God seeks the lost
Luke’s story of the prodigal son, coming as it does in the very middle of the Gospel, and at the end of three stories about loss, is central to the me [...]
Life-giving Sabbath
It’s a long time since I thought of Jesus as the old children’s hymn puts it: Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child pity my simplicity, [...]
Jesus notices people – and reaches out to help
Its so easy to miss things, and I don’t just mean missing your car keys and looking everywhere for them. I mean not noticing people, or not taking not [...]
God’s community
When I became a parent my understanding of what ‘family’ means shifted a gear or two. As a child I took my family for granted, but when I began to hav [...]
God’s Generosity
Our Gospel reading today begins with a family dispute over inheritance. So often the fights we have revolve around money – whether that be in our home [...]
The Lord’s prayer
One of the great treasures of the Christian faith, which has been described as a ‘Summary of the whole Gospel’, is the Lord’s Prayer. All through hist [...]
Being a Christian online – and some social media guidelines
What does it look like to be a Christian online? Everyone’s engagement is different. Whether you’re an ordained Minister of the church using Twitter o [...]
Being a neighbour
The story of the Good Samaritan has often been a favourite for Youth Groups acting out who the current day equivalents are to the people who walked by [...]
Caretakers of the earth
This Sunday at the 10.00am service we will focus on the Story of Noah, a story I have been working on with the Young People in our Congregation. The s [...]