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  • 24 Years Ago Today

    Another year has passed since my mum lost her battle with cancer. I recently found the order of service at my dad’s house in my mum’s old Bible: I remember not long after my mum had died speaking to an old retired missionary who had lost his mum when he was only 9. He told…

  • Resisting Gossip – a book review by Tim Challies

    I came across this review by Tim Challies of this book and thought the book would be a helpful follow up to Sunday’s sermon on the 9th Commandment. You can find the sermon here, And here’s the book review taken from: https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/resisting-gossip/ Don’t you just love a good bit of gossip? There is nothing quite…

  • Marriage enrichment notes

    Back in February we had our first Marriage Enrichment morning, we were joined by pastor Colin Creighton from Carrickmacross as he helped us consider how to strengthen our marriages.  And as we’ve just looked at the commandment “do not commit adultery” it seemed like a good time to share my notes The command not to…

  • What are your tough questions?

    After harvest we’re going to be looking at some of the tough questions that we sometimes get as Christians.  You know when someone says, “you can’t believe in God because…” I’m thinking we might cover: Isn’t the Bible just myth?  You can’t believe in a loving God because of suffering? How can a loving God…

  • Don’t waste your cancer?

    Gervase Markham “Don’t waste your cancer” – it’s a very strange expression, surely nothing good can come out of cancer? I first came across this statement from John Piper when he wrote an article on the night before his surgery for cancer. More recently my old housemate (Gervase Markham) spoke about what it meant for…

  • Look Down That Lonesome Road: Overcoming Substance Abuse

    Here is a guest blog from Adam Cook at Addictionhub.org Adam lost his best friend to addiction and now wants to help others who are struggling with addiction.  Please check out his website for more, and please get in contact with Nick if you’d like to talk about any of the issues raised about addiction…

  • Free Audio Book (a great one this month!)

    Free Audio Book (a great one this month!)

    I’ve mentioned Christian Audio before, if you sign up for the mailing list you get a free audio book every month, some months are better than others, and this month is a great book called “reading the Bible supernaturally” – it’s a book that offers anyone to help encounter the living God through His Word.…

  • Service Time Changes

    Here’s the recent letter that went out with our most recent term card: As I’m sure you all know, one of the challenges in our group of parishes is for the Rector to try and be with all the parishes every week.  I’ve been trying to come up with a way for me to be…

  • Latest from Samburu Mission Trip

    Latest from Samburu Mission Trip

    Here’s a great video from our Crosslinks mission partners Gerald and Louise in Kenya, great to see their holiday club and to see Louise’s language skills! Please pray for fruit from this recent trip. <div class="sqs-video-wrapper" data-provider-name="" data-html="”>

  • What do you actually do in a “Bible Study”?!

    What do you actually do in a “Bible Study”?!

    Sometimes fear of the unknown keeps us away from something.  Tonight we have a Bible Study at the Rectory at 8pm and I wonder if sometimes people are unsure about what happens in a Bible Study. People start to arrive about 8pm and we have tea and coffee and cake.  After that the leader of…