Lent Series This year we will be having a series of 6 very simple Lenten reflections over Zoom on each Thursday in Lent at 7:30 for 30-40 minutes. March 6th-April 10th. These will be based around listening to music with very few words. Zoom links will be circulated to all thiose on our usual. Contact…
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Zoom Lent Series 2023: Wildness
Thursday Evenings from 23rd Feb to 30th March. On Zoom During Lent, we recall the time that Jesus spent in the wild, the wilderness. A focus on wildness might be an opportunity to explore what our faith and practice means, not as a series of decisions to be taken and plans to be developed (as…
Sunday Pattern for the Autumn
As we move towards the post-Covid world we are gradually evolving our patterns of Sunday gatherings towards something appropriate and sustainable for the numbers we have. Bearing in mind the various Church Meeting discussions and decisions, your Worship Group has met and planned the programme up to Christmas at least along the following lines: The…
The Prayer that Jesus Taught
Reading: Luke 11:1-13 The prayer that Jesus taught to his disciples is focussed on four things. They are framed as requests to God but without our input it is difficult to see how they can come about. Firstly we are to pray that the communities and societies in which we live are changed sothat they…
Relatable Thomas
Luke 24 13-31 John 20:19-31 On what we call Good Friday, Jesus of Nazareth was crucified and most of his closest followers seem to have gone missing. But by the time the Jewish Festival of Weeks came round, 50 days later, they had regrouped and become reinvigorated, and Simon Peter performed one of the most…
Lent Series 2022
We will be meeting via Zoom for a series of reflections remembering the life of Jesus through events and stories as recorded in the Gospels.
Light and renewed vision
A lovely rendition of “Ring out wild bells”, a poem by Tennyson put to music by Alana Levandosky which we used as our intercessions: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring…
For the turning of the year: A prayer in a photograph
Our pre-Christmas walk – an easy stroll along the high ridge from Pym’s Chair to the top of Shining Tor in the Peak District. On the very top of Shining Tor, just yards from the trig point, in a sodden bog we find this small tree. One of several “Christmas trees”, presumably wind-blown seeds from…