Advent Musings: Helpless and Vulnerable

Many of us have few problems seeing Jesus as a good teacher, a great example and a kind man. It’s much harder for us to think about him as a helpless baby, vulnerable and dependent. It’s even harder for us to find ourselves helpless, vulnerable and dependent. We...

Away In A Manager

No carol service would be complete, it seems, without the children singing ‘Away in a manger’: The children and Mark (as teacher) were given Christmas presents as well to help them learn more about the meaning of Christmas.

December birthdays

Because we will be only having morning services on 24th & 31st December, we had 3 birthdays to celebrate tonight: A girl who doesn’t like hats… And a boy whose birthday is on New Year’s Eve:

Carol service fun

One of the activities at our carol service involved ‘pass the cracker’… When the music stopped, the cracker was pulled, and then people had to come out to read the jokes from the cracker: Dan’s was the winning joke: ‘Why did the mechanic...

No Greater Name (2)

The many names of Jesus reflect His many different roles. He is both the sacrificial lamb of God and the Good Shepherd who leads us. He is both Son of God, God with us, God in all His fulness (‘I am’ reflects the name of God given to Moses at the burning...