Posts from 2025

Dear Friends It’s September, autumn and the beginning of a new academic year. How are you feeling? For some, it means the end of a long summer break and the daunting prospect of hard study that will lead toward exams. For others we don’t have the pressure of the academic year, instead we might simply be pleased to be back in routine. Whatever you face in these coming weeks and months, be assured that God is with you. It’s good…

Dear Friends Jesus lived an active life. As a young man he learned Joseph’s trade and would have helped him in the workshop, creating and fixing items necessary for living. In the film the Passion of the Christ, in one of its few tender moments, Jesus is portrayed showing his mother a table he has prepared, both enjoying the fruit of his labour. During his three-year ministry he was busy, moving from one town to another, teaching and healing. We…

Dear Friends, Richard Rolle, a 14th Century English Christian, wrote, ‘for to love and to be loved is the sweetest activity of all human life’. Rolle was a man of prayer, a lover of God in an age of anxiety. Despite the harshness of Medieval English life Rolle’s faith was captivated by love; the love of God and a love for God. Love is the deepest human need, more vital than bread and water, the body may perish from lack…

Dear Friends When I wrote in January, there was a spring in my step and all the optimism of the New Year. Whilst I remain optimistic about all that God will do in and through our church, I am also aware of the political turmoil around the world at this time. I don’t know what will happen in these coming months, what the gains and losses in the world will be. Yet I know that God would have us pray,…

Dear Friends I look forward to this New Year with hope, and I am reminded of the words from the prophet Isaiah, ‘see I am doing a new thing among you’, (Isaiah 43:19). Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that we studied this verse and thought about what it might mean for us as a congregation and this year we’ll continue to follow the new paths where God is leading us. I hope that it’s not trite to remind us…