People Problems

If we are honest, living peaceably among other people is probably the hardest thing we ever have to do. Poverty, unemployment, education and health are all important factors in life, but one of the biggest sources of anxiety and conflict in our lives comes from our...

Running By Faith

In the last of our series ‘Running The Race’, we looked at the different stages in life (perhaps summarised best by Shakespeare’s words in ‘As You Like It’ about the seven ages of man) and how faith is essential to each stage. At every stage of life, the challenge is...

Running the Race: The Relay Race

This morning, we continued our series ‘Running The Race’ (Heb 12:1-3) by thinking about the relay race in the Olympic Games. Here, we see 4 individual runners competing as a team, running individually and yet needing each other to complete the race. This is a parable...

Love Is A Choice

Last week, Dave brought us a challenging word from Luke 6:27-38, reminding us that love is a choice. In these days of social unrest, it is easy to feel incensed by the injustice we see all around us and to feel that violence is the only way our voice can be heard. A...

Musings On Slime

During the summer holidays we took our grandchildren to an Amazelab workshop in Sheffield, where the inspirational Leonie taught about chemical reactions as the children made slime. Once all their pouring and stirring were completed, they got to stretch the slime to...

The Olympics

Tonight at our ‘Little Big Church’ service we looked at the Olympic Games and learned about being part of God’s winning team. The Olympic Games feature many individual and team sports (32 in the current Olympics), but every contestant is part of a team representing...