Devotions, Worship Notes, & Intercessions Dear Friends, I hope you found John Proctor’s four week study of Hebrews useful. It’s not a book we tend to know well and I hope spending such a concentrated time on it has helped us understand it better. You will have seen we’ve moved on now to to the …
Esther 1: 13 – 22 Then the king consulted the sages who knew the laws (for this was the king’s procedure towards all who were versed in law and custom, and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media, who had access to …
Esther 1: 1 – 12 This happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the same Ahasuerus who ruled over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, in the third year of his reign, he gave a banquet for …
Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Like Bonnie Tyler we might be holding out for a hero! In our culture we tend to like the larger than life figures that capture the national imagination. We’re just over a General Election campaign where for 6 long weeks our political leaders offered their …
Intercessions Dear Friends, I’ve been on leave this week so didn’t get these out earlier; please accept my apologies. Ruth Watson has produced these intercessions for tomorrow designed to reflect the themes in the service in the Worship Notes. With every good wish Andy The Rev’d Andy BraunstonMinister for Digital Worship
Join us for our Sunday service at 11:00 when the Revd Jacob Bali (Minister) will lead our worship. Activity tables will be provided in the church for Junior Church children. The Chinese Group will leave after the second hymn for their own time of worship led by the Revd Ernest Yu in the Old Hall. …
Hebrews 13:1-16 (from the NRSV (Anglicised), with OT quotes in italics) 1 Let mutual love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being …
Hebrews 12:14-29 (from the NRSV (Anglicised), with OT quotes in italics) 14 Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many …
Hebrews 12:1-13 (from the NRSV (Anglicised), with OT quote in italics) 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus …
Hebrews 11:32-40 (from the NRSV (Anglicised)) 32 And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of …