Matt Redman once said, 'Worship is the ultimate reality check.' (see here) So often, we view worship as escapism or something that's a required but rather boring part of a Sunday service. We may even feel, as C. S. Lewis once did, that the repeated commands to praise...

I'm the kind of person who likes to plan ahead (rather obsessively so, I'm afraid...!), but even I found it rather strange to be making tomato and apple chutney for the Christmas Market on a rather hot day in August! What is perhaps even more astonishing, however, is...

Sadly, the summer holidays are drawing to a close and the new term will be starting shortly. Before then, we are having a cleaning day at church (tidying the stage area and cleaning the toys, ready for the re-start of the Monday Night Youth Club on 5th September and...