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Dear Friends I hope you can join us Sunday as we celebrate and treasure God’s bounty at our Harvest Service. A little word As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.                                                                                                                                Genesis 8.22 (NIV) God’s promise made to himself after Noah had exited […]

  Dear Friends We continue with our series running up to harvest   A little word as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”                                                                                                                                    2 Corinthians 8:15 (NIV) Paul is speaking here about the collection being gathered

Dear Friends Please read the important update from Sara this week and pray. A little word But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!                             Amos 5: 24 Bishop Pete spoke on these words at the Eco-Church Celebration in the Cathedral last Saturday. Amos tells the people God’s challenge; all your

Dear Friends What a glorious way to move into Autumn, enjoy the sunshine. A little word The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;                           Psalm 24.1 Over the next month leading up to Harvest we will be Celebrating and thinking about God’s wonderful world and our place

Dear Friends Hope you are ready for the new term as lots of things re-start after a summer break. A little word Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. In fact, as soon

Dear Friends Here’s your Bank Holiday news A little word And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this                                                                                                                                                                                                 Mark 5.42-43 (NRSV) In the first half of Mark’s gospel

Dear Friends Here’s this week’s news. A little word And looking at those who sat around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’                                                                                      Mark 3.34-35 (NRSV) This reading came up this week. Jesus calls those who follow him brothers and

Dear Friends Here’s this week’s news. A little word ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’                                                                                                                                         Jeremiah 29.11 (NIV) I was struck the other day how relentlessly negative the news is at the

Dear Friends  Here’s this week’s news.  A little word  What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works?   James 2.14 (NRSV)  The reformer Martin Luther famously called the letter of James an epistle of straw. For the reformers in their time anything that suggested

Dear Friends Remember that Sunday at 10.30am is at St Peter’s this week. A little word An argument arose among them as to which one of them was the greatest. But Jesus, aware of their inner thoughts, took a little child and put it by his side, and said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes this child in my