Trinity United Reformed Church Wimbledon
I’m Still A Christian Despite… Dear Friends, I hope you found David Coleman’s reflections over the last week stimulating. Over the next few weeks a range of people will reflect on why they are still Christian. There is much in our contemporary world which can challenge our faith and our commitment to remain in the …
Prayers in a Time of Conflict Dear Friends, I imagine that, like me, you’ve been appalled by news today from Palestine/Israel. War and violence, terror and propaganda now fill our airways; some countries calling for restraint from all parties, others seeming rather more one sided. It’s hard to know what to say or pray. To …
Luke 13: 6-9 Then [Jesus ] told this parable: ‘Someone had a fig tree planted in their vineyard; and they came looking for fruit on it and found none. So they said to the gardener, “See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. …
We look forward to welcoming you to Trinity on Sunday 8 October at 11:00. Our worship will be led by our Worship & Faith Development Team. The theme of the Service will be “The wheat and the tares” based on readings from Isaiah 5: 1-7 and Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43. Sunday will also be our …
Laudate Deum Dear Friends, In 2015 Pope Francis published Laudato Si (Praise to You O God) an encyclical about caring for the earth, our common home. In it, he critiqued consumerism and irresponsible development, lamented environmental degradation and global warming, and called all people of the world to take “swift and unified global action.” Yesterday Pope Francis published a, shorter, …
Wednesday, 4 October 2023 Job – a happy ending BUT no restoration of what is lost. The Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi Job 42: 10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there …
Jeremiah 12:4 How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither?For the wickedness of those who live in it the animals and the birds are swept away,and because people said, ‘[God] is blind to our ways.’ 1 John 4:20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, …
Genesis 3: 17 – 19 To Adam [God] said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It …
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 1 October 2023 Today’s service is led by the Revd Nicola Furley-Smith Call to Worship The Psalmist says: teach me your ways and make them known to me. Teach me to live according to your truth – teach it to me – because you are my God who saves …