A surprising number of people, many of them young, are today asking – “Does the Christian Bible have anything helpful...
21/08/202521/08/2025
Looking ahead 150 years
Predicting the future is not easy for mere human beings, so we asked Chat GPT, and it struggled too! Predicting...
08/04/202508/04/2025
Creation by Word – David Watts
“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was...
08/04/202508/04/2025
Simon’s Scrawl – Spring 2025
Words are powerful. As I write, international relations have been rocked, long standing alliances have been shaken by a few...
24/12/202424/12/2024
Hope 150
Our church was started 150 years ago! The first service was held on Saturday 16th January 1875, at 3.15pm in...
24/12/202424/12/2024
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...
10/08/202410/08/2024
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...
10/08/202410/08/2024
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,...
28/03/202428/03/2024
Fighting the Culture wars – David Watts
Our glorious Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, intrinsically ‘embodies’ qualities of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Our God...
28/03/202428/03/2024
Simon’s Scrawl
The topic of this magazine is how the good news of Jesus Christ engages with different cultures. In the past...