A Baptist-Methodist Ecumenical Church in Leicester
Occasional musings from one of our ministers or worship leaders.
Ancient stories from the beginning of the bible are written by people trying to make sense of things. Some of them focus on the universal human use of retaliation. Violence and war are the children of the human need to get even. From the very earliest times right up to this century conflict is often created by the need to…
“For everything there is a season and a time for everything under heaven”. The voice of Qoheleth from Ecclesiastes (3:1) The older I get the more I value routine and the patterns of the Church Year. They keep me on track and I am glad to accept the process of time moving on.
This is the sermon preached by Revd John Rackley at the new year Covenant Service. The Gospel John 1:1-14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. These words are meant to get us thinking – thinking about God – they make…
Luke 2:8-9 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
A poem for Remembrance Day by Peter Cruse
As we make our way toward Easter we are considering the last words of Jesus. In John’s gospel we read “when Jesus knew that there was no more that could be done, he said in order to fulfill scripture “I am thirsty”. A jar of sour wine was standing by his cross. So, they put a sponge full of the…
It has been the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. I have observed this time of prayer at the beginning of each year since the early 1970s. This week I have been praying with J. Philip Newell’s book The New Harmony (St Andrew Press 2012)