Happy birthday!

Brenda’s family organised a barbecue to celebrate her special birthday and, with characteristic selflessness, she turned that into a fund-raising event for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Here is the church contingency enjoying the food!

Morning Rises

‘Morning Rises’ is the name of the new Aaron Shust album, due out on 16th July and eagerly anticipated in our household! Today, I read an interview in ‘CCM Magazine’ about the album, in which Aaron Shust said, ‘My primary litmus test for...

‘Epiphanies of the Ordinary’

What makes someone buy a book? (or a DVD or a CD or anything else, for that matter…) What is the ‘key factor’ in motivating someone to move from looking to purchasing? The marketing and advertising industries work hard at identifying that elusive...

Birthdays galore!

A number of people have birthdays this coming week, so we had fun celebrating these last night.Two people share the same birthday. Eileen brought her own tiara to wear instead of the ‘birthday hat’, as she is lovingly referred to as ‘The Queen’...

Immanuel, God with us.

Although Isaiah 7:14 is a Scripture traditionally the focus of Christmas services, it’s always good to reflect on the fact that Jesus is ‘Immanuel, God with us’. Mark spoke on this topic last night, starting by commenting that we perhaps would not...

The Cross

John spoke this morning on the subuject of the cross, looking at Romans 5:1-11 as his main text. 1. The Planning of the CrossThe cross was no afterthought in God’s polans, but was planned before the foundation of the world (see 1 Peter 1:19-20, Revelation 13:8,...