Our church was started 150 years ago! The first service was held on Saturday 16th January 1875, at 3.15pm in the afternoon. So next year is our 150th birthday and we have some special anniversary celebrations that are planned. As well as these events we are also planning an anniversary booklet which will be distributed...
De-cluttering the Nativity
There’s an awful lot of clutter around the Christmas story, a lot of it generated over the years by the church, and most of it is hard to believe! Take some of the carols: In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, Snow had fallen, snow...
GUIDANCE and the voice of God – Philip D. Jensen and Tony Payne
I can be a very indecisive person. I worry that I am troubling others when asking for advice and this is exactly the case when asking God for help . I wonder if He really cares about my life and all the decisions I have to make. Should I pray about this or that, really?...
Jesus, the Wisdom of God – Nigel Atkinson, Vicar St John’s, Knutsford
When Paul writes in I Corinthians 1:24 that Jesus Christ is ‘the wisdom of God’ it is difficult, at first, to understand what he means. And that is not surprising because wisdom as a concept is not easily grasped. What is wisdom? The Bible tells us that wisdom is worth more than all the silver,...
Simon’s Scrawl
The topic of this magazine is how the good news of Jesus Christ engages with different cultures. In the past Christian missionaries, attempting to share the gospel, sometimes mistakenly imposed Western culture upon a local population. But the gospel can and should adapt to different cultures, and that’s been shown by the way in which...