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Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. With Tina Turner fading away in the background we ponder today what love is and what it has to do with our faith. Our culture, built on the values of the Bible, sees love as a positive virtue but gets confused on what exactly love is. We’ll explore that […]
Reading Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. Reflection In Samoa, a profound connection exists between the Samoan people and mother nature. Through the lens of Samoan culture today’s selected verse resonates deeply with the interconnectedness of the Samoan people with our […]
Friday 3rd May 2024 Matthew 16: 24 – 26 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find […]
Joel 1:6-7, 10-12, 2:25b A people have come up against my country,a mighty and innumerable people;their teeth are the teeth of a lionand he has the fangs of a lioness.He hath made my vineyard a desolationand he has torn my fig tree to pieces;he peeled them to the ground and felled them,and their branches are […]
Romans 8 vs 19-21 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay […]
Introduction The global theme of the Season of Creation movement in 2024 is “To hope and act with Creation”, and the symbol is “The first fruits of hope”, inspired by Romans 8:19-25 . Reading Romans 8: 19 – 25 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the […]
‘otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.’ Proverbs 8: 22 – 31 The Lord created me at the beginning of his work the first of his acts of long ago.Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.When […]
Today’s service is led by the Revd Sue McCoan Welcome Hello, and welcome to this service of worship for the 5th Sunday of Easter. My name is Sue McCoan, and I’m the minister of two churches in West London. It’s good to be with you. Let’s worship God together. Call to Worship O give […]
Luke 15:1-7 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave […]
