Viewing all items in Resource Category: Looking at God

We have been thinking about different aspects of church buildings. But what about ‘the whole thing’? – the impression you have when you first see a church building? Most of us have visited many church buildings, either to worship or as a tourist:  to enjoy the splendour, the colours, the style and the architecture, with or...

‘Moses said to the Lord, “…I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy for me…”’ Numbers 11:10-15.  Moses prayed this prayer in a day of dark depression and discouragement.  The opening verses of the chapter relate how divine punishment fell on the people of Israel because they complained...

Woodcarving isn’t as straightforward as it seems. You don’t begin with a block of wood; you begin with a piece of paper. The first step is to draw a plan of what you want to carve, and only when you’ve got that right do you start to shape your piece of wood. The carver then...

‘Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be …successful.’  Joshua 1.8  Any flying instructor will tell you that periodically all aeroplanes need to be ‘trimmed’ or ‘balanced in flight’. After flying through storms...

At the start of the New Year From the Vicar What’s the Big Idea? – an introduction to the books of the New Testament: Acts Reflecting Faith: taking down the Christmas tree decorations Praying with the prayers of the Bible Time to think Pray with your shoes Left out in the cold Ten things God...

2025 is a year of Jubilee in the Roman Catholic Church, a year which takes place every 25 years. It’s a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.  This acts as a challenge for all...

2025 is a year of Jubilee in the Roman Catholic Church, a year that takes place every 25 years. It’s a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation. This acts as a challenge for all...

The Acts of the Apostles was written by Luke, a physician-friend and fellow-traveller of Paul. It complements his gospel, both being written for Theophilus (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1), in around AD 63, during Paul’s first Roman imprisonment. While Luke’s gospel records what Jesus began to do and teach, Acts tells us about what Jesus continued...

Last month we considered the decorations we put on our Christmas trees, both at home and in our churches. Many churches keep their decorations – or at least their nativity scene – in place until Candlemas at the beginning of February, but most of us take our domestic ones down around Epiphany, on 6th January,...

In this series we will be looking at 12 prayers found in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments. Some are prayers for personal circumstances, while others relate to family or church or nation. In studying all 12 prayers the emphasis will be on what we can learn about prayer and how we...

We all have moments in life when our circumstances change dramatically, and we wonder how things are going to work out. Perhaps it was like this for Mary. One moment she was planning her marriage to Joseph, when an angel announced she was to give birth to God’s Son. A few months later she had...

With the rush of Christmas almost over, we tumble into the New Year, sleep for a couple of days, take down the decorations and plod back to work, school or our normal routines.  There’s a pleasure about getting back to normality, but there’s also the challenge of looking forward to what the year will bring....