Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston  Welcome Hello and welcome to worship.  As we get older, we worry that we forget things – and I’m pretty sure electronic diaries make matters worse!  We hear today of Isaiah’s concern that his fellow believers had forgotten the marvellous deeds of God – deeds with …

St Mark 5: 1 – 20 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.  When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him.  This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.  …

St Mark 4: 35 – 41 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat …

Thursday, 1 February 2024 St Mark 4: 30 – 34 He also said, ‘With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;  yet when it is …

inspiration in your inbox Wednesday, 31 January 2024  St Mark 4: 21 – 29 Jesus said to them, ‘Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and not on the lampstand?  For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come …

When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables;  in order that  “they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may …

Again Jesus began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land.  He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to …

 Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Durley-Smith  Welcome My name is Nicola Furley-Smith, Secretary for Ministries and today’s service comes from Purley. Call to Worship As Christians living in a broken world, we are aware of the need for healing in our own lives, in the lives of others, and in our world. …

Saturday, 27 January 2024   St Mark 3: 31 – 35 Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.’ And he replied, ‘Who …