The Foolishness of Faith

Gillian reminded us at the end of the service that just because something is not visible, audible, tangible, touchable or able to be smelled does not mean it doesn’t exist. Air can’t be seen, smelled, heard, tasted or touched, but it still exists! The...

Family activities

Mark organised a range of activities for the family service, with the promise of a variety of prizes: Teams had to answer True or False questions about (apparently) foolish things and also get involved in food tasting ‘fools’ with a difference! These...

Fools for Christ

Tonight’s family service looked at the subject of ‘fools for Christ’ (bearing in mind 1st April in the UK is known as April Fools’ Day, a chance to play practical jokes on people up to 12 noon!) Dave spoke from 1 Cor 1:18-25, reminding us that...

Choose where you focus

Thornton Wilder said ‘Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them…’ As someone who is pessimistic by...

Hoping and waiting

Ps 130 is a psalm which talks of hoping and waiting. It begins ‘out of the depths I cry to you, Lord’ (Ps 130:1), and there will always be times when we feel out of our depth and in danger of despairing. The key in these times is to keep the channels of...