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Love in Action! From the Vicar What’s the Big Idea? An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament: Job Reflecting Faith: Church Buildings Prayers of the Bible:  Praying in your Discouragements  What you have in common with a woodcarving How do you keep your life going in the right direction? ** Editor:  Canon Paul...

‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ (1 John 3:18). The writer Gary Chapman describes how love can be expressed in 5 different ‘languages’: words of encouragement, quality time, gifts, acts of service and touch. Do you have a preferred language of love? As we think...

‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ (1 John 3:18). The writer Gary Chapman describes how love can be expressed in 5 different ‘languages’: words of encouragement, quality time, gifts, acts of service and touch. Do you have a preferred language of love? As we think...

‘Why does God allow suffering?’ This is a frequently asked question of Christians, because we believe in a God who is both good and powerful and it is explored in the book of Job. This book is part of the wisdom literature, along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Job was both wealthy and...

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...