Spirited Word

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 27 September 2026 I believe that my grandchildren are growing up in an age that is significantly different from any other time in history. Never has a previous generation had access to so much “stuff”. They live in a post-modern, post-Christian era, where the institutional church is declining in our country; where so-called experts claim that Christianity is no different to any other religion, and that no religion is the best way to have peace on the earth. They have a...

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 20 September 2026 We are glad to welcome two special guests this morning at the 10.30 am Service: General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Estonian theologian and pastor Rev Dr Anne Burghardt, and the LWF Regional Secretary for Asia, Rev Dr Rospita Siahaan. We take time out to celebrate a particular biblical person today – Matthew, the gospel witness. Why remember Matthew and other saints? For praise and thanks to God for all he did through...

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 13 September 2026 In a community within a Western culture it is hard for the church to really stand out since the values of our culture are drawn from the Bible. The high value of a person created in God's own image, the responsibility those in power should have in using their authority to serve the good of all, the sacred gift of marriage for life and the raising of children, the treatment of the vulnerable as needing to be fair and just and compassionate are al...

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 06 September 2026 Being a father is a vocation – a calling – where God calls a man to fatherhood through the gift of a child. The Bible has a lot to say about fathers. Throughout the Bible, we discover that God has given a special focus to fathers. We learn that God wants to be known as our Heavenly Father. Our Lord Jesus not only spoke to his Father but also taught us to pray, ‘Our Father in heaven…’ Even the story of the birth of Jesus is about a father named Joseph....

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 30 August 2026 Humped Zebra Crossing. Cats Eyes Removed. Tanks ahead. You see some pretty strange signs when you get off the motorways of the UK, and instead take the narrow winding countryside ‘roads’. When Jesus challenges / invites / commands us to take the narrow road, what comes to your mind? “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road tha...