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Streams of Joy

  Nehemiah 8:1-10, Psalm 98 Both of our readings this morning speak about joy. Psalm 98 instructs us to rejoice – to be joyful – with the whole of creation; the sea and all that fills it, the world and all who live in it! And our Nehemiah reading is Read more…
By Belinda Groves, ago

Sending out the invitation

Sending out the invitation – 20 January 2019 John 2:1-12, Psalm 36:5-10   This week I have been doing some preparation for the church’s 90th anniversary. You’re all invited by the way! Keep the 23 and 24th February clear! There are a few key things you need if you’re organising Read more…
By Belinda Groves, ago

Baptism of Jesus

13 January 2019 Today we’re going to look at an event that made it into all four Gospels such was its importance and inspiration: – the baptism of Jesus.  As the Old Testament reading that marries with this story rallies the faithful to understand to whom they belong with the Read more…
By Martin Reilly, ago

Simeon and Anna

30 December 2018 So Christmas is over.  The banners remain and memories of the big day and its build up lingers like smoke from the Advent candles now blown out.  We have remembered the story of the birth of Jesus.  And today Luke takes us into the Temple, where Jesus Read more…
By Martin Reilly, ago

Memory Makers

25 December 2018 – Christmas Day A few years ago, I came across a list of six of the best Christmas short stories, and on it was Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. Does anyone know it? Truman Capote is better known as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) and Read more…
By Belinda Groves, ago

Mary’s Song

23 December 2018 The first two chapters of Luke, in a different way to Matthew, give us a full account of the background of the birth and childhood of Jesus.  And along with Matthew, it is often the backdrop of our familiar Christmas pageants with kids wearing tea towels acting Read more…
By Martin Reilly, ago

Repentance and Joy

16 December 2018 Today is a rather confusing day in the season of Advent. We have been going along lighting purple candles remembering that this is a time of preparing and waiting for God to come into our world – a time of penitence – which up until the Second Read more…
By Belinda Groves, ago