Stressed?

Someone once said that men are happy because they can buy 24 presents on Christmas Eve without getting stressed! Certainly, for most people, Christmas brings its stresses: a desire to make everyone happy may seem laudable but is impossible; the creation of that...

Still to come…

Still to come in December is the Christmas Day service, starting at 10.30 a.m. Join with us to sing carols, celebrate Communion and worship Christ our Lord this Friday – the service will only last an hour, so plenty of time still for Christmas cooking! There...

Worship the Wordless One

Having reached the end of Psalm 119, we are still not quite at the end of our Advent musings; we have still not reached the stable at Bethlehem and paused to gaze in wonder at the baby in the manger. Yesterday, we looked at our part in prayer, but it is worth pausing...

Petition and supplication

Read Psalm 119:169-176. The subjunctive is a grammatical mood in language that is all but forgotten in English (though it is alive and well in other languages.) Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion,...

Scorned

Stephen’s sermon on Sunday morning looked at the manger, and how even the place where Jesus was placed at his birth was symbolic of the rejection He would face during His life. Casting Crowns develop this theme in their song ‘While You Were...