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Reading: Genesis ch37 vv2-11  Talk - Dreams  We all have dreams for our life  God has a dream for your life today and for you  Joseph was 17 years old when God gave him a life changing dream, that one day he would have power and be influential  I want to challenge you today to have a big dream from God  Dream big - God has more for you  There are times when your...

Our involvement with Compassion  In April 2013 when we went to Spring Harvest and heard a speaker talking about Compassion  There we found Enoch who we have exchanged letters with and he is now 16  Our second child we link to, Khanzi now has a family goat, purchased with the money we have sent  Inspired by our experience, we asked the church to sponsor a child as well.  Wh...

Reading - Psalm 139. 1, 5-12  Reading - Luke 15.11 - 32  Short reflection on readings - We all love a good story and the stories of Jonah and the Father with two sons are some of the best  We always think of the first, younger son in the story, but I want us to spend some time with the other one.  In some ways he was lost as well - never having left home, never disobeyed his fa...

I know some of the congregation were intending to go on cruises this year that have had to be postponed  This autumn we are thinking about the story of Jonah, an anti-hero that does all of the wrong things but somehow manages to bring Nineveh to God  Originally told by God to go to Nineveh, a 550 mile trek, he instead opts for a 2,500 mile trip to Tarshish instead  It's a great comi...

Can you rest, are you sleeping okay at the moment or are you having weird dreams   We live in a restless world  We're restless about the impact that we are having on our world; the climate emergency the pollution of the seas and air  Easy to think it's someone else's problem but it's all of ours.  Words of a carpenter, a journalist and an artist:   A carpenter - Jesus - "C...

This is the end of the season of creation  This season of creation ends on the 4th October, St. Francis' day  It's almost 800 years since he died yet he still impacts the whole church and world with his example  Turning away from material things to a life with Christ  Wanting to live out the gospel in its fullest extent  Many stories talk of his great love for animals and...

Reading: Romans 16. 1 – 7 NIVUK read by David Reynolds Final reflections on our journey with Paul.  Paul wanted to get to Spain, he saw it as an area ripe for mission but he never got there  He was arrested in the temple in Jerusalem, beaten and put on trial for being a Christian  Even at the moments of danger and imprisonment, Paul wants to share the love of God he has discovered&n...

Introduction: Travel Plans!  Did you have any travel plans this year?  Have you got away after all those weeks of confinement?  If you were really brave, have you got into a plane or train?  Paul wanted to visit Rome but his plans were disrupted again and again   Reading: Romans 15. 22 – 29  Our journey with Paul and some of the highlights: Geoff Cronin, Kate Yates an...

Talk: an update on the work of One Can  What is a food procurement manager?  How we look after our clients, what we give them  Crucial to provide a balanced diet  Help from Wycombe Wanderers  Thanks to our Street Heroes  Pre-COVID numbers per week 225, in May 2020 it was up to 623  Annual running costs of £200,000  Many thanks for any donations  Prayers...

Reading; Ruth 1.22 – 2.12   Short reflection on the reading - Ruth is one of the unsung heroines of the bible  A woman who changed the course of history  A crucial link in the bible with King David and Jesus  A Moabite woman giving one of the greatest statements of loyalty and faith - "where you go, I will go, where you stay, I will stay; your people will be my people and your...

Successes and failures growing things during lockdown  Progress on the chilli plants  The meaning of gleaning  Any wine makers in the congregation?

The end of our series on Paul's letter to the Romans  Happy or sad to see the end of it?  There is one more week of it next week in our harvest service  We started on the 12th July 2020, 8 weeks ago  What words or passages have spoken most to you?   Reading - Romans 14:1-12    Reflective hymn - Help us accept each other   Short Talk - Acceptance, accepting e...

Opening Prayers  Introduction: ‘Sky high love’  What comes to mind when I say "sky high"?   Prices, balloons, space travel?  The Psalm talks about God's love being as high as the sky is above the earth  Some older translations have it "as high as the heavens"  So often our lives and thoughts get caught up in the day to day minutiae and we should take a moment to stret...

1st Reading - Psalm 119  2nd reading - Romans 13 v8-14  Time of reflection with "Come down O Love Divine"  Talk - The national debt  For 100s of years our government has been borrowing money to fund its activities  That amount has steadily increased until 10 years ago, the amount hit 1 trillion pounds  With the effect of the pandemic, the amount is now 2 trillion pond...

"It's that time of year again" - What's in the Box?  Has anyone bought any shoes recently?  Shoe boxes as a container of gifts for our neighbours in Eastern Europe  What does this box contain? Reminders of the previous months - facemasks, seeds, a greeting card, a prayer ribbon  Shoe Box appeal details - Link to Hope

Reading Romans  Reflection and Sermon Revd Bridget Powell  The passage from Romans is about what we should do to show Christian love in our lives today  Many of the words are found in Paul's writings and Jesus' teaching  Roman rule was hard and many people were self-indulgent  The disabled or ill were left on the outskirts of society  This still happens today, can we...

Introduction to the readings  Psalm 138  Romans 12 v1-8 00:31:53  Our service this morning began as usual with the call to worship - an invitation to worship the living God.  But what does worship really mean  Months of lockdown and restrictions have challenged us to think again  Some of us are here, many at home  It has been difficult to share communion.  W...

Do you recognise this stuff?  Has anyone used cash recently?  Ice cream, car park machine?  We are not using cash in the way we did.  Sometimes we find change difficult to deal with What have been the biggest changes in your life recently?   Family, work, friendship groups, church, worship?  If things didn't change there would be no life.  Be transformed then you...

Chapter 11 in Romans where Paul grapples with the place of the people of Israel in God's plan  God has not rejected his people, his mercy extends to Jew and Gentile alike.   Reading: Romans 11.1-2a,29-32 (NIVUK)    Reading: Matthew 15:10-20 (Good News Translation)    Short Talk They say that cleanliness is next to Godliness.   Given the amount of hand sanitiser w...

Yesterday was VJ day,  commemorating the end of warfare with Japan in the Far East and the effective end of the 2nd World War  A solemn day of remembering and a day to pray for Peace  Describing the Woburn to Bourne End walk to remember the many who died or were injured in war  NHS in flowers on the hillside to thank those who have worked through the coronavirus pandemic ...

Short prayer  We have been hearing a lot about the R number recently  A simple but crucial number guiding governments around the world to determine how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic  Additional precautions to keep R down  How does the spread of faith compare to the spread of a virus  Richard Dawkins and religion being a virus of the mind  Is faith taught or c...

Introduction: Justice and peace embrace  Back in May during lockdown we marked VE day  We had big plans to commemorate this  VJ is often missed, the marking of the end of the war 15th August, 2020 is the date - 75 years since the end of the 2nd World War  Praying for peace  Some of the consequences and injustices of that war are still being felt  The Burma memorial ou...

Last week we heard the climax in Paul's letter to the Romans where he sums up that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ  Next he changes direction and looks at how many of his own people have rejected the message In the next three chapters he struggles with what the place is for his people.  He believes there is a place for them and that God has not rejected them. &nbsp...

Have you found something recently that you had totally forgotten about?  It's a lovely feeling when you find it  The stories we'll hear shortly are surprises.  People don't find what they are expecting but something amazing!    Reading - Matthew 13.44-46  The parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl  An amazing, life changing experience finding the pearl

Introducing the reading: Paul coming through the fire Reading Romans 8:26-39  Prayer  Talk - How are you doing out there?  We can get worn down and stressed out by the seemingly endless lockdown  Think about those times  Paul knew what this was like brought to his knees by his own failures but it wasn't ever a sign of failure  Paul writing about a thorn in the side&nb...