Church is a loaded word
The word Church, in itself, means so much to every individual. To those whom regularly attend Church, it might mean that wonderful community where they belong, where they seek to...
Amidst the fields of gold
As I reflect upon the Good Shepherd passage (John 10:11-18) I imagine that I am walking amidst the fields, possibly not yet of gold, but of new shoots. The soil...
Praying with our mind
This is our third session of this course, one in which we seek to move away from a litany of petitions, a series of demands for God to perform upon...
Adaption is the new hope
Who would have thought that a year on we might possibly be able to congregate together to celebrate Easter in a Church? For some this is still not possible -...
Is this prayer as well?
We all have an understanding of prayer - or do we? There's a great perspective upon prayer by George Lings entitled 'Seven Sacred Spaces'. I wouldn't wanted to remove the...
Prayer Exploration #1
We have started to explore prayer. We could spend longer in what we already deem to know as prayer or pause - as is the thing in Lent - and...
Hands together, eyes closed…
I always used to add "Don't forget to blow your nose"... The traditional form of prayer is one that is led from the front, but where today 'the front' is...
What a community!
Within Scripture there's a community which is described in Acts 2 which is something we might want to emulate. They don't go to a church or a synagogue primarily as...
Remembrance Day 2020
Each year we recollect the past. Those times when our own and other countries were focused upon war, when so many people died, arguably needlessly. I have direct experience of...
As we grow older we might expect the Church to develop also
Could this be Church today for the 0-100 age gap?There are some lovely models of Church. Yes, these are good but relate to the past, the way it was. Such...
Is our product needing renewal??
The world is changing faster than we can keep up. The Church is still preaching to a world that doesn't exist.Scott Cormode, Pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the...
Is ‘worship’ a thing of the past?
What were you called when you were young? Did you have a Sunday name, one that shook you to the core when it was spoken? Perhaps over time the name...