This was meant to be a quieter week. I was due to be away at Summer School, a time to meet up with other Ministers, a time when we learn together but also socialise, catch up with friends, relax a little, be refreshed. But like so many things it ended up online and so we … [Read more…]
It is now almost three months since we were able to meet together in our church buildings and whilst various activities are opening up, the advice from the United Reformed Church is to be in no rush to open. Our style of church believes that private prayer happens in the home, or street or park, … [Read more…]
I wrote last week about beginning a series of Prayer walks, so I thought I would share something from those. Monday was Ansty Road, beginning outside the church where I could inspect the early work on the redevelopment, trenches a dug for the footings, there is a big hole where the steps used to be … [Read more…]
Our final podcast of this Easter to Pentecost series finds us playing with questions and responding in prayer. We hope you have found them useful, we will return if we feel we have something to say. Credits: Music – “Spirit of God” © Ray Stanyon
On Sunday we will arrive at Pentecost. It is the Sunday that remembers and celebrates the birthday of the church – when (according to Luke) the Holy Spirit arrived 50 days after Easter and gave the disciples enough courage in their hearts and fire on their tongues to emerge from the upper room where they … [Read more…]
The fifth in our series of conversations explores our response to John 17 and the prayer of Jesus for all who would walk the way of Jesus.
I wrote last week about the way in which this time has created a new routine in the way I work. But routines can’t last for ever and already it’s time to change to a new pattern. Throughout June we are going to join with churches across the city in praying for Coventry. This is … [Read more…]
As we come to our 9th Sunday without being able to meet in the churches, I have found myself in a new routine that now works towards having these letters prepared to catch the last post on a Thursday. Sadly, last week I didn’t factor in the bank holiday and so I believe that for … [Read more…]
This coming Sunday we arrive at Christian Aid Week and so the worship material that we have produced comes to us from Christian Aid and will allow us to focus on matters beyond our immediate situation and into the wider world where this virus can not be managed with expensive ventilators, a well funded health … [Read more…]
Our third podcast explores John 14 and the ways we dwell with prejudice. Credits Lemn Sissay “Colour Blind” in Gold from the Stone Alison Phipps and Tawone Sitholé “border crossing in Togo (insert place of choice) in The warriors who did not fight Piano played by Brenda Beauchamp.
