What’s Happening
Living Under God’s Favour
When we ask someone 'Can you do me a favour?', we usually mean something relatively minor! God's favour is a major thing, however, a blessing we experience as God's people though it is completely undeserved. God's favour has been defined as 'the divine kindness,...
Largesse
Recently I wrote about words adopted into English from other languages; I love the etymology of words (finding out about their origins.) Today's word for me is 'LARGESSE.' This word comes from the Latin word 'largus', meaning 'copious' or 'generous' (think 'large'!),...
What Is The Church?
Today in our Bible discussion we looked at the question 'What is the church?' It's certainly not a building (useful though these are). The church is made up of God's people meeting together; we are the church! We are the 'called-out ones' and on the confession of...
Talking Point
Talking Point – Islam
Garry's latest 'Talking Point' sermon looked at the subject of Islam. Headlines appear almost daily in the newspapers informing us of terrorist atrocities committed by radical Muslims, and it is undoubtedly true that violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history, the...
Inside the Ethics Committee
A very interesting radio programme on Radio 4 today touching on some of the issues raised by Garry's sermon on euthanasia on Sunday. You can listen to the programme 'Inside the Ethics Committee' here (or via the Radio 4 website if the link doesn't work.)
A slippery slope
The road to hell, the proverb goes, is paved with good intentions. There are many who advocate euthanasia for the most humane of reasons. They want to alleviate pain and suffering; they want to show mercy and compassion to those suffering (whether the person involved...
How We Got Here
Our glorious geeks!
We need technical people to help things run smoothly, and these guys were great. They were responsible for the presentation which ran throughout the day, for the background music in the main hall, for giving us words to sing to in the evening meeting and for the sound...
More fun!
One of the songs we love is called 'More Love, More Power' by Jude Del Hierro. This post is all about having more fun!Different ages enjoying table-tennis:Playing pool:Balloon-modelling:Face-painting outdoors:Doing colouring competitions and the anagrams competition:
Times of refreshing
Church events just wouldn't be the same without refreshments! It seems we spend as much time making cups of tea and coffee as we do on any other activity, and the Open Day was no exception. In deference to the number of mugs we own, the number of people who can fit...