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  The Empty Tomb – A Story of Easter Practicing the Way – Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as He did Candle Youth Bible – explore 90 passages from the NLT Holy Bible (Anglicized) 12 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Easter – The Wonder of Easter – an Easter Journey for the...

The following list of witnesses may help you put all those references in order…. Mary Magdalene                                Mark 16:9-11; John 20:10-18 Other women at the tomb                Matthew 28:8-10 Peter in Jerusalem                             Luke 24:34; 1 Corinthians 15:5 The two travellers on the road        Mark 16:12,13 10 disciples behind closed doors     Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:19-25 11...

The Ministry Experience Scheme (MES) could play a key role in helping the Church of England achieve its goals of recruiting more people to work in ministry to children, youth and families by 2030, a conference has heard. The Revd Helen Fraser, Head of Vocations for the Church of England, spoke of her hope that...

Observations for Lent The shortest distance between a problem and its solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. – Anon The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything. – Anon People are like tea bags – you have to put them in hot water before you know how...

The King is 75. Last year he did 516 engagements, and before his recent diagnosis for cancer, he had no intention of slowing down. Instead, he was keen to be ‘back up and running’ as soon as possible after his prostate operation. Was he right? “Absolutely he was – you shouldn’t slow down,” says Sir...

How do you make sense of the Resurrection? Dead men don’t rise, so why believe that this particular dead man did rise? At the end of St Luke’s gospel we read that: “they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement” (Luke 24.4). This is highly significant. The Gospels do not show us a...

In this series we have looked at the psalms of the Old Testament and the songs of the New Testament, and now we enter the Middle Ages. But it is the Middle Ages through the eyes of a record producer in the last century. In 1980 Ted Perry decided to found a new independent record...

We may all have rather mixed feelings on reaching March this year. On the one hand, it is lovely to see the onset of Spring, but the wars in Ukraine and Israel-Gaza grind on, as does the cost-of-living crisis. We may need to find new ways to keep going, so here are some suggestions that...

Ripple Effect, the humanitarian Christian agency working in Africa (formerly Send a Cow), has reported a bumper year of ministry for 2023. “Last year we reached more people than ever before – 1.38 million people in rural Africa.” The people have taken part in projects that help them adapt to the climate crisis, regenerate tired land,...

Crufts has well been called the greatest dog show in the world. Everything about Crufts is big: last year more than 155,000 visitors flocked to the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) at Birmingham for a show that lasted four days, to see more than 24,000 dogs compete. In addition, there were numerous displays of agility, obedience,...

The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren  Visits from your parishioners to our church are always welcome. But I did not expect them to return to you complaining because our pews are uncomfortable. Pews are meant to be uncomfortable. The unshakeable belief of our congregation is that the more uncomfortable the pew,...

Palm Sunday visit It was Palm Sunday, but because of a sore throat, five-year-old Bobby was kept home from church with his grannie. When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm fronds and Bobby asked them what they were for. “People held them over Jesus’ head as He walked by,” his father explained....