Revd. John Sutcliffe was our guest preacher at the weekend by Zoom with the theme:
CRISIS IS A TIME OF OPPORTUNITY
(I am told that in China the word for crisis is the same as the word for opportunity. Perhaps Albert Einstein drew on that when he coined his saying, ‘in the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity.’)
From Epiphany to Baptism:
Our change of direction!
Mark 1: 4-13
There is a hymn written by John Bell and Graham Maule that asks the question, “will you come and follow me if I but call your name?” and the last verse concludes with the reason: “Thus I’ll move and live and grow in you and you in me!”
There are two sides to every story…
Matthew 2: 1-12
If you didn’t see what I saw on the first day of the year you might not believe what I tell you, but it was a bright start to the year!
Love is found in the bleak mid-winter
Read: Luke 1: 1-20
In the bleak mid-winter,
frosty wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron,
water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow,
snow on snow,
Lives pregnant with hope
Luke 1: 26-38
I want to say “don’t be afraid” of angels and prophets or the Word of God that seems to be speaking to you from nowhere. I want to say “don’t be troubled” by voices of strangers in your kitchen who greet you as a friend and tell you to do the impossible.
WORSHIP GROUP SERVICE : SUNDAY 13th DECEMBER 2020 : ©BROADWAY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
LOOKING FORWARD IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST
Order of Service
WELCOME MARK
CALL TO WORSHIP MARK
HYMN 134 R&S On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry …
On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Come then and harken, for he brings
Glad tidings from the King of kings.
Then cleansed be every breast from sin;
Make straight the way for God within;
And in each heart prepare a home
Where such a mighty guest may come.
Raise your voices!
Isaiah 40: 1-11
I imagined a mass protest from environmentalists at the plan for Jesus to return because it is going to make a real mess of the countryside! The HO2 rail link, an additional runway at Heathrow or a tunnel under Stone Henge are nothing compared to God’s great plan.
A mother, three wise daughters and a brother
1 Corinthians 1: 3-9 and Mark 13: 24-37
“Where is the child?”
Cried a woman.
“Where is our Hope?”
the woman cried.
As we head out of the second lockdown and into new tiered restrictions a lot of people are losing sight of Hope. She is like the missing child everyone wants to find.
All lives matter…
Matthew 25: 31-46
I don’t often get on my soap box in Facebook Corner, but this week I make an exception and if in the end you want to call me a “silly old goat” I hope you can be sure that you are “one of the sheep!”
Children in need give us what we most need!
Isaiah 40: 27- 31 and Matthew 18: 1-9
All our children are in need, but they give us what we most need! They need our love, but what we get from them is the strength and inspiration to do what we must do!