Common grace

Rom 1:18-19 tells us ‘what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has...

Birthdays and food banks

It was Mark’s birthday today! We also listened to an update as to what is required for the food bank (tinned meats, tinned vegetables, cereals and jams, marmalade and lemon curd) and were asked to come up with fund-raising ideas to help with this. We had an...

Every day or everyday?

It’s easy for us to take people and things for granted and grace can, sadly, become something which fails to thrill our hearts if we do this. ‘Familiarity breeds contempt’, the proverb says. The problem with so much of ‘everyday church’ is that we equate ‘every day’...

Grace in the everyday and the mundane

In the second sermon in the series ‘Everyday Church’, we looked at the vast topic of God’s grace, there for us every day of our Christian lives, even in ‘the everyday and the mundane.’ (Matt Redman, ‘Your Grace Finds Me’) ‘It’s there in the newborn cry There in the...

Love Where You Worship

This morning, Julie started a new series entitled ‘Everyday Church’, looking today at the fundamental fact that ‘God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.’ (1 Cor 12:18) Many of the New Testament...