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You make all things new – 1 Samuel 1:3-20, Luke 4:16-30 The promise, ‘you make all things new, you make all things new…’ that we sang earlier comes from Revelations 21 alongside other promises that one day God will be intimately known by God’s people (“See the home of God Read more

On the road – Mark 10:46-52 In school I was told that a preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with! ‘With’, by the way, is a preposition! (If you want to know how to not win friends and irritate people you can be even more pedantic Read more

Our Great High Priest – Isaiah 53:4-6, Hebrews 5:1-10 In The Silver Chair, part of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, there is an section I often think about: the confrontation, deep underground, between the Witch and Jill, Eustace, Puddleglum (who could forget the Marsh-wiggle!) and Prince Rilian. Rilian Read more

Blessing of the Animals – Genesis 1-2, Psalm 148 It says in Genesis, chapter 2: “On the seventh day God finished the work that he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed Read more

Witnessing to Creation – Psalm 19, Romans 1:18-20,25 There are lines of scripture so beautiful they take your breath away, and I would put these first verses from Psalm 19 in that category. The heavens declare the glory of God;    the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day Read more

“Open our ears to hear and guide our steps to follow” Reading: Mark 9: 30-37             A well-known and I suspect much loved hymn begins with the lines, “O Sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above”. But it wasn’t like that in Galilee in the time of Jesus, Read more