The will – it’s a strange and slightly mysterious thing, isn’t it?  We first start to see it when a child is just a few months old, newly weaned – turning their nose up at one mouthful of food only to embrace another.  Wills famously start to assert themselves strongly as toddlers.  The battles all … Read more

The journey of Jesus through Holy Week is, among many things, a journey from crowds to loneliness.  The great throng of Palm Sunday becomes the large crowd in the temple; then the smaller gathering at Bethany, moving on to the Last Supper with his disciples; then just Peter, James and John in Gethsemane, until finally … Read more

We’re blessed to be able to worship in a beautiful, inspiring building.  Despite being made with wooden scaffolds, rudimentary tools and makeshift mortar, it has stood for hundreds of years, and is likely to for hundreds more.  Most of us sucked in our breath and felt a sense of thrill when we first stepped inside … Read more

I don’t know if any of you have ever had the experience of having your debts cancelled.  I must confess that I haven’t, but I know friends who have, and they have shared the exhilarating feeling of a heavy load being taken off their shoulders, a sense of being free, of being able to look … Read more