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As we continue to read accounts of Jesus' ministry as curated by Matthew, this week we are reminded that Jesus' mission was never his alone. He invited, indeed commanded, his disciples to go out and share the good news and the healing power of the Kingdom. And this is what he still invites, indeed commands, the church to do today. Our services are at the usual times on Sunday of 7am and 9am, with the 9am service including Children's Church and Zoom streaming. As usual the wee

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This week we start the 'green season' in the church which lasts (baring a few saints' days) until the end of November. After the emphasises on the Good-Friday-Easter Day-Pentecost arc, in our gospels we follow the accounts in Matthew's gospel of Jesus' ministry. There is much to learn there about the values of the kingdom of God. This week the calling of Matthew the tax collector, and the healing of two women show that God's call and God's promises are for all. Our services a

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the day when we celebrate a doctrine, and perhaps we find this a hard things to do (a wonderful sign in the ruins of the Chapter House at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire states that "Here the monks gathered every Sunday to hear a sermon from the Abbot, except on Trinity Sunday, owing to the difficulty of the subject.”. I have two comments to make. Firstly the Trinity is how we experience God, not how we understand God, and indeed trying to do the l

Fifty days after Easter we come to Pentecost (the name gives it away). This is the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, the beginning of the wheat harvest, which is why so many of the Jewish diaspora were in Jerusalem at this time. In the book of Acts it was at this time that the Holy Spirit, prophesied in the Old Testament and promised by Jesus, came upon the disciples. The Spirit's timing was impeccable - Jerusalem full of pilgrims who listened and responded to Peter's

Last Thursday was Ascension Day which, in the church calendar is as important as Christmas, Easter or Pentecost (indeed in many European and African countries it is a public holiday). We find this account at both the end of the gospel of Luke, and the beginning of the book of Acts (thought to be by the same author). Hence the Ascension marks the end of the earthly ministry of Jesus, and the beginning of the work of the church, as Jesus leaves his disciples in order to send th

Pentecost is only two weeks away and so our gospel passage continues on from last week's with Jesus promising that the Holy Spirit will come, and be a new way in which God will be with God's people. Because we experience the work of the Spirit, we can know Jesus and the Father; hence we also foreshadow Trinity Sunday in three week's time. Our services are at the usual times on Sunday of 76am and 9am. The 9am service is streamed over Zoom and includes Children's Church. As

In this fifth Sunday of Easter we begin to look towards Pentecost and see that the Easter mystery truly inaugurated a new paradigm for the relationship between God and God's people. Speaking before his arrest Jesus tells the disciples that he is both going away, but also remaining with them, a promise that is fulfilled for both them and us in the gift of the spirit. Our services are at the usual times on Sunday of 7am and 9am. The 9am service is streamed over Zoom and include