Hearing & Heeding

Every time we meet with God, we have an opportunity to hear and to heed Him. God is a God who loves to speak with us. Samuel learnt to hear God from an early age (1 Sam 3:1-14). One of the names of Jesus is ‘the Word’ (John 1:1-3) and the writer to the...

Mosaic Creativity

Today we hosted the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival mosaic project. As part of the festival’s remit to champion creativity and celebrate community, a community mosaic is being created which was started today. Artist Ruth Waterworth made a design for us to...

Reflexive Verbs

A reflexive verb is where the subject of the verb is the same as the object – or, in other words, where the person (subject) doing the action (verb) is the same as the person receiving the action (object). In English, we usually add -self to show this: ‘I...

Key Points

Preachers are keen to make key points (often using headings or alliteration or other techniques to give people somethng they can easily remember) so that those listening can take hold of what they hear and not let this disappear through their hands like sand....

Opportunities & Opposition

In our Sunday morning series, ‘Battles and Blessings’, we are looking at the fact that battles and blessings often seem to be like the parallel tracks on a railway line: we experience both simultaneously in our lives. This certainly seems to have been the case in the...

Repentance & Rest

In Peter’s sermon following the healing of the crippled man, he tells the crowd, ‘Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.’ (Acts 3:19) This gives us a clue as to how we may move from judgment...