Category: Message of the Week
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Message of the Week — Seedtime and Harvest
On Sunday we gave thanks for the harvest. God's promise in Genesis is that it keeps coming, year after year, and that gives us a reason to keep sharing it long after the Harvest Service is over.
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Message of the Week — Angels Unawares
Today is Michaelmas, the feast of St Michael and All Angels. Most of us will never see a winged messenger, but we may well meet God's care in the person sitting next to us.
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Message of the Week — A Time for Everything
This week the days and nights come level, and from here the evenings draw in. Seasons change. God doesn't — and the darkness is no darkness to him.
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Message of the Week — Ordinary Time
The church calendar calls this long stretch of the year Ordinary Time, which sounds like an insult and isn't. Most of life is Ordinary Time — and you don't have to wait for it to become significant.
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Message of the Week: Mission
Kate Compston’s hymn I dream of a church doesn’t describe the church as it is. It dreams of one that keeps company with God — not standing at a polite distance, but joining in. A church that laughs when God laughs, delighting in a world still growing and still risky. A church that weeps where…
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Message of the Week — A Harvest Worth Giving Thanks For
Verse: Galatians 6:9 — “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” September has a way of turning our eyes to the fields and gardens around us. After such a hot, dry summer, followed by a wet start to…
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Message of the Week
Verse: Psalm 16:11 “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” This week’s message is a joyful one: God isn’t distant from your Tuesday afternoon or your Thursday deadline — He’s near, and there’s real joy to be…
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Message of the Week
Verse: Matthew 11:28–30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me… For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Good news for a Tuesday: rest isn’t something you have to earn or squeeze in — it’s…
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📖 Message of the Week — Tuesday 28th July
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” — Galatians 6:9 July is nearly done — and what a month it’s been. There’s something quietly important about finishing well. Not with a fanfare, but with the same faithfulness you…
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📖 Message of the Week — Tuesday 21st July
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11 This week we’ve been reflecting on community — what it means to belong somewhere, and what it means to make others feel they belong too. We hear it again and again from people who come to St Mary’s for the first time:…
