If you were asked to sum up what Christians believe in a single sentence, I wonder what you would choose to say? A strong contender might be; ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son….’. Jn 3:16; but what do we mean when we say God ‘loves’ our world? Here are …
‘Peace be with you’, says Jesus to his friends. ‘Peace be with you’, I say at all our Eucharist services in church. ‘Peace be with you’, we all then say to one another. In the wider context of our world, however, our words are in danger of seeming rather trivial, an almost meaningless exchange. As …
It’s been said that the command ‘Do not worry’ or ‘Do not be afraid’, is the most often repeated, and least obeyed, commandment in the Bible. I rather hope we all know that simply saying ‘Don’t worry’ is the most pointless, least helpful, thing to say to someone burdened with anxiety. So why does Jesus …
In December it was very special for St Mary’s to again host the Clouds House Carol Service. We were privileged to hear a young man, who is in recovery from drink and drug addiction, speak of the life-changing experience of being at Clouds and his determination to live differently. His father was there alongside him …
