Dear Friends – Coming back to church It is now four months since we entered lockdown, embarking on a new way of life, including for our churches. As further guidance is released and some of the lockdown measures are eased, the United Reformed Church has issued guidance and expectations for churches returning to worship. It […]
July August 2020
Dear friends, The vice-regents and governors conspired together and then went to the king and said, “King Darius, live forever! We’ve convened your vice-regents, governors, and all your leading officials, and have agreed that the king should issue the following decree: For the next thirty days no one is to pray to any god or […]
June 2020
Dear friends, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” [Philippians 4:6-7] The global spread of the coronavirus, Covid-19, has become […]
May 2020
Dear Friends Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than […]
April 2020
Dear Friends Jesus Has Risen: After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat […]
March 2020
Dear Friends Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship, persecution or famine, nakedness, peril or sword? It is written, ‘For your sake we are being put to death all day long, and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.’ In all these things, however, we are more than conquerors through […]
February 2020
Dear Friends, There is, then, no condemnation now for those in Christ Jesus, because the law of the Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death. I am convinced that nothing can separate us from Christ’s love. Neither death nor life, nor angels or demons, nor the present nor […]
December 2019
Dear Friends, So they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in a manger. (Luke 2:16) Even though I did not grow up in a Christian household I still remember every Christmas Eve Mum would put on the radio and we would listen to festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. […]