Slow Miracles

Traditionally, we think of miracles as God’s intervention in human history, often in remarkable and sudden form. The dictionary definition of the word ‘miracle’ says a miracle is ‘an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws’...

Gulliver’s Valley Trip

Yesterday we took 100 people from the Parent & Toddler group families to Gulliver’s Valley near Sheffield, a theme park with something for everyone under 10! It was lovely to have so many families join us (so many we needed to hire 2 coaches!) and to have...

Letters to Smyrna and Pergamum

Tonight’s Bible study looked at the letters to the churches in Smyrna and Pergamum (Revelation 2) and saw that Christ speaks to churches in ways that are intensely relevant to their particular situations. To Smyrna, a city which had been literally destroyed and...

Suffering

I have been re-reading one of my favourite books, Eugene Peterson’s “Five Smooth Stones For Pastoral Work”, and looking again at the book of Lamentations, a book written during a period of enormous suffering following the siege of Jerusalem and...

Learning To Acclaim God

Psalm 89:15 in the Message version says, ‘blessed are people who know the passwords of praise’, but this can make it sound as though praising God requires great feats of memory which will be beyond most people. The NIV says, ‘blessed are those who...