Veneer

Recently we had a leak in our bathroom which caused minor damage and as a result we are looking for new shelving to go in the bathroom corner next to the bath. My husband, who designed the original shelving because of the awkward shape of the corner, wanted to simply...

Birthday celebrations

It was great to welcome our newest members to church tonight: babies born in November. Our prayers are with these two baby girls and their families. We had another birthday to celebrate as well!

Halfway Home

Mark spoke about the life of Terah at tonight’s meeting. Terah (Abraham’s father) is only mentioned in a few verses in Genesis and in one verse in Joshua and might seem quite an insignificant character compared to others in the Old Testament, but his life...

Choose blessing!

Ps 128 is a psalm of blessing. To be blessed, the dictionary says, is to be divinely or supremely favoured; to be fortunate; to be blissfully happy or contented. It’s a good word! There are two Hebrew words translated ‘blessed’ in this psalm. The word used in Ps...

December dates

There are five weeks to Christmas, a reflection that 2015 is whizzing by at a pace that surely must indicate my ageing process…! Bearing that in mind, here are some of the important dates for the church in December. Friday 11th December is the Parent &...

Flexible practices, firm principles

Chapters like 1 Cor 8 are not at all irrelevant to modern life, even if the practices they discuss are not of paramount importance to us today (having said that, to Jews and Muslims, how animals are butchered is of paramount significance, with kosher and halal meat...