Trinity United Reformed Church Wimbledon
No Happy Endings Dear Friends, I know from my inbox how Gethin’s reflections over the last week have stimulated you! One of the interesting thing about the Daily Devotions is the ability they have to provoke some deep thinking, delight and horror – often in the same email! Over the next week I’ve some more …
Worship Notes for November Dear Friends, As you know we produce Worship Notes each month to help those leading worship prepare services well. We publish these at least a month before they are due to be used and November’s are now available on the URC website here https://urc.org.uk/your-faith/prayer-and-worship/worship-notes/ There are two ideas I’d like to share …
Our worship on the first Sunday of October at 11:00 will include the Sacrament of Holy Communion. It will be led by Sandy McLeish, a member of Elders’ Council. The Bible readings will be Ezekiel 18: 1-4, 25-32 and Matthew 21: 23-32. We meet together for the first part of the Service, then the Chinese …
Thanks to all who brought items for the Foodbank to our Harvest Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 24 September. These were delivered to the Foodbank on Tuesday morning, and were very gratefully received.
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 …
Deuteronomy 20.10-20 When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you in forced labour. If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then …
Genesis 9.18-29 The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth was peopled. Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some …
Genesis 17.1-8 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, ‘I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.’ Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, ‘As …
Colonial Decline Dear <<First Name>>, I hope you enjoyed Simon Cross’ reflections from Fiji; it’s clear that his time there will inform his future ministry and we wish him well in his continued studies. Now we turn to a related theme. One of the facets of the life of the Church now is growth in the …
Amos 5: 18-24 Alas for you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord?It is darkness, not light;as if someone fled from a lion, and was met by a bear;or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall, and was bitten by a snake.Is not the day …