Creation Time
During September our services are focusing on our stewardship of creation. This is Rev John Rackley’s sermon preached on 13th September.
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Sunset, Sunrise, a brand new day
This sermon was given by Rev John Rackley on 30th August at our first service with social distancing regulations and is posted here as many people are still unable or uncertain about coming to church services.
Sunday services resume
After a successful trial run last Sunday, we will be holding a service every Sunday morning again (unless a local lockdown intervenes). The timetable for restarting other activities is still very uncertain but this is a welcome beginning. There is more information about services here.
Welcome to our new minister
Our new Methodist minister, Rev Debra Chidakwa Akue, joined us at the beginning of September. Having just returned from abroad she is having to self-isolate. Debra will preach at the Sunday morning service on 6th September by pre-recording a video. We are very much looking forward to being able to greet her properly in a couple of weeks (but a…
Dangerous Prayer
‘Prayer is a marvellous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts but it is a dangerous substitute’ Martin Luther King. I do not know the original context of these words. The quotation turned up in the monthly mail-out of Contemplation and Action; a movement based on the ministry of Franciscan Richard Rohr. It was part of a series of comments…
Is the Story of the Ascension an Embarrassment?
What do we do about the story of the Ascension of Jesus? Do we really have to believe that if we had been there we would have seen Jesus going up into the sky? Two hymns help us to consider these questions. The first from the 1700s, the other written in the last fifty years. They are both in the…
Christian Aid Week and the Three Loves
Abraham was charged by God to teach his children ‘the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just’ (Genesis 18:19) and ever since we have wondered what that means. Jonathan Sacks gives a superb summary of how the Jews have interpreted this instruction in his latest book, Morality. ‘Love your neighbour. Love the stranger. Hear the cry…
Visit Rev John Rackley’s blog
Rev John Rackley, our associate Baptist minister, has re-started his own blog at windingquest.wordpress.com This is how he introduces himself. Life is a bridge. Cross over it but build no home on it. Bruce Chatwin Songlines 1982 I grew up in a fishing community in Devon UK from generations of sea-farers going back over 200 years. I have worked as…