Our next Straw Bale Build volunteer day is Sat 14th July from 9am to 4pm
Tag Archives: Holy Trinity
Special Prayer Service Responding to Brexit
New Sermon Series – The Lord’s Prayer
Alpha Course Starting 8th June – Six Weeks to Look at the Christian Faith
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Polar Explorers’ Holiday Club Video
Here it is – and this is what it was like here in Tulse Hill!
Oxjam Gospel
A brilliant evening festival of soulful music, craft stalls. Let’s pack it out and raise loads of funds for two great causes. You can buy tickets online here (including a limited number of early-bird tickets) or on the door.
Dinner with Billy Graham
Dinner and 30-minute film.
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The Least of These
17th May
The story of how God chooses David as king over Israel is filled with important insights. Look at Eliab, David’s eldest brother, with all his attributes: tall, handsome and strong; yet Samuel was led to choose David, the youngest and least regarded among his siblings.
We tend to give precedence to outward appearances, rank, affluence, anything vain or indeed whatever is easy on the eyes. We turn our nose up at people we deem inferior to us. God, however, looks beyond that. He looks for a good heart, character and attributes that engender the fear of Him, respect, humility, care, peace, love and unity among his people.
Is there a situation that you are considering at the moment? A judgement you have to make or a decision you have to take? What factors are influencing you? Are you also listening, as Samuel was, to the Spirit of God?
Love and the Hard Man
26th April.
As we listened to the reading from John 10, I misheard what was being said. I thought it was “the hard man” – not “the hired man” who sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep. Why would a “hard man” run away? Surely he would be tough enough to send the wolf packing! Yet he is hard in a different sense.
Jesus is often seen as the “soft man” – meek and mild. Yet he was the one who went all the way for the sheep – laying down his life to die for us; rising from the dead and returning to find us – yet again.
This is how Fred Bruner translates the passage in his commentary on John’s gospel: “The hired hand who is not the shepherd and to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep in the lurch, and runs for his life.” But love does not leave others in the lurch. We love because God first loved us; he showed us what love is all about.