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August sees many of us taking holidays to get some well-earned rest from working. But what is the biblical relationship between rest and work? The Bible shows us that we are to work from rest, not rest from work. How is this working out in our current experience? When God created human beings on the...

Most of us identify with the disciples’ request: ‘Lord, teach us to pray’ (Luke 11:1); having seen Jesus pray, they wanted to know how to pray! A Loving Relationship Jesus begins with father: ‘When you pray, say: Father’ (2). Prayer is like a child asking their parent for help. This reflects Jesus’ own intimate relationship...

 Church buildings come in all shapes and sizes, and yet they can all be traced back to one of three basic designs. They all have a Sanctuary which is the main altar or table area, and a Nave where the people stand or today, more usually sit.  (We thought about the nave last month.) The simplest...

Most of us will know the hymn, Amazing Grace, by John Newton. Grace is an essential element of our faith, but what is it, exactly? In everyday life the word ‘grace’ has many uses: in the courts, a pardoned person has been ‘shown grace’; in the arts, an exquisite dancer moves with beauty and grace;...

One of the greatest doctrines in the Bible is the love of God for His people. Both Old Testament and New Testament tell us what God said to His people through Jeremiah: “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (31:3). It was that love that moved the Father to send His Son into the...

Some time ago I was helping my grandson George into his car seat in the back of my car, when I accidentally banged his head. He started to cry. “Come on, George, be brave,” I said. “But I don’t want to be brave!” he wailed. I guess we all know that feeling. Sometimes life is...

Sea Sunday From the Vicar:  Sea Sunday Christian Basics: No 7: What Does the Holy Spirit Do? (Pt 2) Locked in a shipping container Reflected Faith Series: the grandeur of God Showers of blessing A sermon in sand ** Editor: by Canon Paul Hardingham Sea Sunday Over many years the 2nd Sunday of July has...

Over many years the 2nd Sunday of July has been kept as Sea Sunday, with a special focus on prayer for all seafarers. The Mission to Seafarers supports the work of sailors facing difficult waters, piracy, and separation from loved ones for long periods at sea. However, we can also experience storms in our own...

Over many years the 2nd Sunday of July has been kept as Sea Sunday, with a special focus on prayer for all seafarers. The Mission to Seafarers supports the work of sailors facing difficult waters, piracy, and separation from loved ones for long periods at sea. However, we can also experience storms in our own...

Somebody once defined a football match as ‘22 people on the field desperately in need of rest, watched by 50 thousand people in the stands, desperately in need of exercise! It reminds us that church is not a spectator sport! The Holy Spirit equips us to serve God in the Church and daily life through...

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ...

Do you understand the mysteries of God? Who is He? What is He up to? If Jesus’s disciples who were with Him daily for years had trouble understanding Him, what expectation is there that you and I will? We get glimpses of Him – through new life, through nature, in creativity, music and dance and so...