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Dear Friends What a glorious way to move into Autumn, enjoy the sunshine. A little word The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;                           Psalm 24.1 Over the next month leading up to Harvest we will be Celebrating and thinking about God’s wonderful world and our place […]

Dear Friends Hope you are ready for the new term as lots of things re-start after a summer break. A little word Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. In fact, as soon

Dear Friends Here’s your Bank Holiday news A little word And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this                                                                                                                                                                                                 Mark 5.42-43 (NRSV) In the first half of Mark’s gospel

Dear Friends Here’s this week’s news. A little word And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’                                                                                      Mark 3.34-35 (NRSV) This reading came up this week. Jesus calls those who follow him brothers and

Dear Friends Here’s this week’s news. A little word ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’                                                                                                                                         Jeremiah 29.11 (NIV) I was struck the other day how relentlessly negative the news is at the

Dear Friends  Here’s this week’s news.  A little word  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works?   James 2.14 (NRSV)  The reformer Martin Luther famously called the letter of James an epistle of straw. For the reformers in their time anything that suggested

Dear Friends Remember that Sunday at 10.30am is at St Peter’s this week. A little word An argument arose among them as to which one of them was the greatest. But Jesus, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put it by his side, and said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes this child in my

Dear Friends It will be great to see you at the grounds clear-up on Saturday morning. A little word And who knows but that you have come to your position for such a time as this?                 Esther 4.14 (NIV) The story of Esther has been the subject of our recent Morning Prayer readings. It

Dear Friends It was great to picnic together last Sunday. Next week we can chat as we work in the church yard. A little word Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.                        Prov 25.28 (NIV) These days we are told to express ourselves, to be ourselves, which

Dear Friends Please join us for our picnic after the service on Sunday lunchtime A little word Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect                 1 Peter 3.15 (NIV) Surprisingly to some, it is usually