The River of God

The river Ezekiel describes (Ezek 47:1-12) is a river of abundant, teeming life. It’s a place where life can grow and healing can occur. As such, it is a picture of the overflowing life that God offers us. Many of us live life with God added on as an...

Learning To Swim

Learning to swim is a skill most of us acquire in childhood. It’s not easy: having mastered the skill of walking, we have to, in essence, learn a completely different way of moving in water, because water is a very different medium to terra firma. Legs and arms...

Wild, Wild River

Tonight’s sermon, continuing the ‘Wells of Salvation’ series, looked at Ezekiel 47:1-12, and the river of God. This river leads to abundant life, with plants, fruit and fish flourishing all year round (Ezek 47:9-10,12) and is a symbol of the abundant...

Anger

We all have different temperaments: some of us are so phlegmatic and laid-back that it’s hard to tell if we’re happy or sad, angry or calm (a little bit like the uniform a Storm Trooper wears, giving no indication of mood!) Others are as volatile as a...

Wedding Celebrations

While we wait for the official photographs of the wedding from Alan, here are a few to whet your appetite! Our very best wishes and congratulations to Mr & Mrs Foreman whose wedding we celebrated at church yesterday. Our prayers for a long and happy marriage go...

The Many Facets of Love

Today, as we celebrate the wedding of James and Jade at our church, our thoughts are inevitably concentrated on love. ‘Love and marriage… go together like a horse and carriage’, the old song says, but in our modern society, that is sadly not true....