In our Gospel reading today, Jesus repeatedly uses Old Testament texts to rebut Satan when he tries to make him bow down and worship him during Jesus’ forty days of testing in the Judaean wilderness

I would like to start off today by thanking Alan and Daphne for stepping into the breach for me last Sunday while my mother was so ill in hospital.

Luke’s version of our Gospel passage occurs after Jesus has spent the night praying alone on a mountain...

Last week we looked at the events which occurred in the Jerusalem temple when Mary and Joseph presented Jesus as the ‘first fruits’ of their marital union,

The story of Jesus’ presentation in Jerusalem is one of the few accounts we have of Jesus’ childhood after his birth.

Today is a relatively sad day for our churches as we say goodbye to Didier, who is leaving us to explore what God might have in store for him in other types of ministry

Saturday was the first day in this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and for the rest of this week, we are all encouraged to pray for the unity of Christ’s body

In today’s lectionary readings, we are reminded of the Baptism of Christ, which marks the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany which falls tomorrow, but it is also the first Sunday that we have met since the New Year...

Today we celebrate the Fourth Sunday in Advent on the cusp of our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrations;

You know it is getting close to Christmas when the lectionary starts to include Old Testament texts which have found their way into common consciousness...

If like me, you had been searching for a copyright-free image of an advent wreath this week, you would have found it hard to find one...

As a child, I attended a Roman Catholic Primary School where, on a Thursday morning, the local priest would say mass for both pupils and those parents who were able to stay...

Many of you will have been following the distressing news which broke the week before last in respect of the findings of the Independent Inquiry...

Apart from being ‘Armistice Day’, when I will be observing the traditional two minute silence and saying a few words about remembrance...

Our Old Testament reading is attributed to Jeremiah, whose book (in spite of the often negative or pessimistic associations made with his name...

A few weeks ago, I went down to down to Canterbury to give a talk in one of the local churches on the Friday evening.

On the 20th of May 1916, Ernest Shackleton and two others stumbled half-dead into the small Norwegian whaling station of Stromness...

In our Exodus reading today, we see how giving was generated in the ancient Israelites by a stirring of the heart which was inspired by the Holy Spirit...

Today, we celebrate our Harvest Thanksgiving Service, which is the time when we give special thought to all those in need...

James, our Lord’s brother and a leader of the early church in Jerusalem has much to say about the tongue in his epistle reading this week...

In last week’s Gospel reading we saw Jesus criticising the Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees ...

Today sees the start of the liturgical season of Creationtide which runs from the 1st of September to the 4th of October each year.

In the last two weeks, we have been considering how Jesus repeatedly told the crowd that he was the ‘bread of life’ ...

It is with great sadness that we announce

Many of the events we have been reading about in our Gospel passages for several weeks now took place either in, on, or around the Sea of Galilee

How many times are we inclined to complain during the course of a single day?

It is a great privilege to have Archdeacon Guy Elsmore preaching and presiding at our 09.30 service in Winslow today.

Now that the polls have closed and the British people have made their minds up

There is something wonderfully refreshing about our Gospel reading this week

One of my all-time favourite hymns is that written by a former resident of Baltimore, Priscilla Jane Owens

Someone asked me last week how we can possibly know about the events recorded in the Gospels which tell us what happened when only Jesus was present, or when his disciples though present...

People often ask me why the Church of England does not venerate the Virgin Mary to the same extent as other churches do, and I have even been asked if Anglicans really ‘believe’ in her

In our reading from Deuteronomy, we see the origins of the ‘Sabbath’ which was instituted so that the people, their servants, their livestock...

The 23rd Psalm is probably the most popular and most-used Psalm in the Christian Psalter today.

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 14th of April. The Third Sunday of Easter

Pew Sheet for Sunday the 17th of December 2023. Advent 3 – Gaudete Sunday. I always rejoice at this time of the year to read and reflect on the writings of the prophet Isaiah

The Weekly Pew Sheet for November 19th 2023 Kingdom Season 3, Second Sunday before Advent

The pew sheet for Sunday, November 26th 2023 The Feast of Christ the King, Kingdom Season 4 One of the most important and meaningful symbols in the early church was the image of ‘Christ Pantocrator

Advent Sunday December 3rd 2023. Advent 1.