Jubilee

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrates 60 years of her reign, diamond being the jewel chosen to represent 60 years. Wedding anniversaries are remembered with different items each year: the first wedding anniversary being paper, the tenth tin and so on. The...

Jubilee Family Service

Last night the family service rather unoriginally took the theme of the Jubilee!We had a variety of Jubilee prizes on offer:We had a game called ‘Pin the Crown on the Queen’, using amazing resources painstakingly produced by a friend of mine (thanks,...

Renewed thinking

Garry preached from Romans 12:1-2 this morning, focussing on the ‘renewing of our minds’. God wants all of us, every part of our live, and that obviously includes our minds – that faculty of perceiving and understanding, our capacity for reasoning...

Communion songs

Last night in our study on James, we looked at the way that the rich and the poor were treating Communion (see 1 Corinthians 11:17-22). Paul found nothing to commend in the selfishness of the rich who brought plenty to the love feast, but equally took...

An enemy of spirituality

I am currently reading a book by Eugene Peterson (no surprise there, huh?!) called ‘Subversive Spirituality’. I read it a little bit at a time (unlike my normal method of reading, which is to devour a book hungrily in one sitting, aiming for the world...