In this weeks Messy Sermon we will be exploring The Parable of the Talents. Click on the logo below to see this week’s Family Pack which follows the story of the Parable of the Talents. There are lots of activities for you to share as a family whilst exploring the reading. What talents and skills…
Today’s gospel reading, Matthew 25:14-30, is about being caught out – nobody likes being caught out! We usually concentrate, when we read this Parable of the Talents, on thinking about using our skills for God and/or the Church. But, coming as it does in these weeks before Advent, the focus shifts and we look at…
Years ago, I went to a performance of John’s Gospel at St Luke’s Church in Blackburn – just next to St Wilfrid’s School. I say ‘performance’ because it featured a solitary actor who proclaimed the whole of John’s Gospel from memory – not a BIble in sight. The audience all sat in the nave, in…
At the end of most communion services in the Church of England, we depart with the familiar dismissal ‘Go in peace to love and serve the Lord’ and we all respond ‘In the name of Christ, Amen!’ In many ways this is one of the most important aspects of our worship. We have gathered to…
Gospel reading Matthew 22:1-14 A king throws a wedding banquet. The invited guests behave very badly – many send their excuses, others abuse and murder the messengers. In exasperation, the King sends his remaining slaves to gather in all kinds of people from the streets to the party. One of their number is not dressed…
Gospel reading – Matthew 21:33-46 The German writer Herman Hesse wrote that we hate in others that which resides in us ourselves. What is not in us does not move us either to hatred or love. I suppose this is another way of saying what the psychologist Karl Jung said when he talked about projection…
The story of Moses and the water from the rock Click on the logo below to see this week’s Family Pack which follows the story of Moses and the water from the rock. There are lots of activities for you to share as a family whilst exploring the readings. Why were the Israelites quarrelling with…
Today’s Gospel reading is Matthew 21:23-32 Beware the sin of pride. Jesus spent a lot of time talking about it. To me it is self evident that, for example, if someone thinks they are a prime example of a godly person, like one of the chief priests, they’re not. Tripping Jesus up was what they…
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light’ 1 Peter 2:9 It’s not always easy to see what God is doing in our lives and in our world…