Romans 11: 1-10I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? …

Mission Impossible? Dear Friends, Our lovely friends at St Andrews with Castlegate URC in Nottingham have agreed to make the recordings of hymns available for other churches to use and I wonder if there is a small group of people who might like to assist. All the recordings are on YouTube and the audio of …

Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions Dear Friends, Millennia ago the prophet Habakkuk, when faced with war, environmental disaster and consequent famine, sung:  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food;though the flock is cut off from the …

Let us come together to hear what God, the Lord, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts. A gathering prayer   God of everything and everywhere, we find you by the lakeside,we hear you in hidden places,we see you on the mountain-top.May we feel your presence …

Romans 9: 19 – 29You will say to me then, ‘Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?’  But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is moulded say to the one who moulds it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’   Has …

Romans 9: 1 – 18I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit —  I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my …

Worship Notes and Weekly Intercessions Dear Friends, Millennia ago the prophet Habakkuk, when faced with war, environmental disaster and consequent famine, sung:  Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food;though the flock is cut off from the …

 Romans 8: 18 – 30 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.  For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God;  for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but …

Romans 8: 12 – 17 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh —  for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  For all who …