“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” This verse and the neighbouring verses from 1 Corinthians chapter 10, will undoubtedly be very familiar to anyone who has attended a wedding! However it has much more to say to us than just some […]
In our worship this morning, it is God who invites and we who respond by choosing to abide, to ‘be present’ with God and with one another. The invitation before us is to come and enter into the rest God has for us – not just on Sunday but every day – into eternity with […]
We’re delighted to welcome Rev’d Kate Hackett to lead worship on Sunday. Kate moved to Alnwick a couple of years ago from the south of England where they she had been in ministry. in the URC. Not quite retirement, but not full-time working either, Kate has got involved with all sorts of Synod work locally […]
Did you know that researchers have found that it takes an average of 66 days to form a habit? So as we think about how we develop Holy Habits in Church and in our walk with Jesus, perhaps we can appreciate that these are things that take a little time to bed down. We need […]
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Still keeping them? If you resolved to follow Jesus more closely by adopting some Holy Habits – STICK WITH IT! This week’s Holy Habit is ‘Prayer’, and as Linda leads our worship, she’ll be picking up on the first apostles who ‘devoted themselves to prayer’, according to Acts […]
What are your hopes and dreams for the coming year? Is there a New Year’s resolution that you are determined to keep this time around? Perhaps there’s a change in your life that you would really, really like to make? When we meet on Sunday as God’s people, we are celebrating the fact that Jesus […]
As we reach the turn of the year, Jackie and Margaret lead our service on Sunday and help us to look to the start of the New Year as a continuation of our journey with Jesus. Just as Mary and Joseph faced a difficult journey as they travelled to Bethlehem, so we sometimes face hardship […]
We’ve been reflecting during Advent on the theme of waiting. This is Christmas Eve, and our last Sunday before Christmas, and I think we can agree that getting ready for Christmas involves a lot of waiting. We wait in supermarket queues, we wait to open presents, we wait for the family to turn up, we […]
During Winter time, the natural world experiences a period of waiting. The leaves have fallen, the flowers are gone, things look grey and bare. We know that there are seeds planted in the ground, hidden and dormant, but you might look out at your garden or at the flower beds in the park and wonder […]
As Christmas approaches I wonder: How patient are you when it comes to waiting? Will you, for example, patiently eat one chocolate per day from your Advent calendar, or scoff them all in the first weekend? Can you resist having a sneaky look at the presents under the tree? Are you holding back putting your […]
