Worship
In this section, we keep archives of many of our services. As you browse here, we hope you'll get a flavour of our worship, including the themes we look at, our hymns and our sermons.
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Service Date: 1 August, 2010
Luke 12:13-21 (Jackie to read)Sarah: Thank you for seeing me at such short notice, Dr Callear.
Jackie: That's all right. What can I do for you this morning?
Sarah: Well, my uncle died last week.
Jackie: I'm sorry to hear that.
Sarah: It was a great shock. We none of us expected it. One moment he was making a killing on the Stock Exchange; the next he was killed himself. All of a sudden. Dropped down dead just as he was making a bid for all the coffee in the world.
Jackie: All the coffee in the world?
Sarah: Well, he'd read that someone had done it with all the cocoa beans in the world. And my uncle thinks big. Sorry, he thought big. So he said to himself, why not coffee? After all, everyone drinks coffee.
Jackie: [incredulously] And he had enough money to buy up all the coffee in the world?
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Service Date: 25 July, 2010
Luke 11:1-13We've heard what praying felt like for Jesus' disciples. Because Jesus chose them, because they went around with him all the time, we might think they'd be champion pray-ers, who knew exactly what to say and how to say it. But going by this story, they weren't very confident about praying. You pray, they ask Jesus. Show us how to do it properly! So he does.
I hope it gives us confidence to think that the people closest to Jesus needed some help in praying, because I think it's often something we find hard too. So I'd like you to move into little groups of 3 or 4 people, as we've sometimes done before, and I'd like you to think about the following questions, and then to discuss them with each other. Remember, there aren't any right or wrong answers: what we're looking for is how things are for you. And the questions I'd like you to think about, and if you wish, to share with your neighbours in the group, are these:
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Service Date: 11 July, 2010
Luke 10:25-37Our Gospel reading this morning is a very familiar story, so I want us to use our imaginations to understand it freshly. Listen, and fill in the details for yourself.
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost; Holy Communion
Service Date: 4 July, 2010
Gospel reading: Luke 10:1-20Narrator: After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them,
Jesus: ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest. Go on your way...
Disciple: Sorry, Jesus - can I just ask you something?
Jesus: All right. What is it?
Disciple: Can I just get this clear? You've called us all to follow you. Some of us have had to leave our families and jobs behind, and I can tell you it took a lot of organising to get away. And now you're sending us away again? I don't understand. Do you want us with you or not?
Jesus: Yes, or I wouldn't have called you to start with. But I've called you exactly in order to send you out.
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Service Date: 27 June, 2010
Luke 9:51-62I wonder how many here were following Andy Murray's fortunes at Wimbledon yesterday? I can't say I was one of them, but it must be a bit exhausting being a follower of a sporting personality just now. One moment they're up, next moment they're down, and you go up and down with them.
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Service Date: 13 June, 2010
Narrator: Welcome to Come Dine With Me, the first programme of this popular TV series to be set in first-century Palestine. Just to remind you, this evening a host is going to welcome others to his table and be scored on his hospitality. Your host tonight is... Simon the Pharisee! And because this is a pilot programme, he's invited just one guest: some young wannabe preacher, Jesus from Nazareth. It's going to be very interesting to see how Simon reacts to this newcomer on the religious scene. Let's find out how the evening begins...Second Sunday after Pentecost: St Columba
Service Date: 6 June, 2010
Galatians 1:11-24Columba: I must say, Paul, that's a very impressive list of places you've visited. Weren't you born in Tarsus, in Asia, I believe? And then to travel to Arabia and Syria - and Jerusalem! I envy you seeing Jerusalem!
Paul: And Rome. But it wasn't precisely a sightseeing trip.
Columba: No, no, of course not. They had you up in front of the powers that be, I understand - trying to get you to back down and worship the Emperor rather than Jesus. I had a bit of that trouble myself, in a much more local way. Brude, King of the Picts, agreed to be baptised, but not all his people followed him.
Paul: I have to admit, Columba, I don't know nearly as much about your story as you do about mine. Some little Northern outpost of the Roman Empire you were working in, wasn't it? Ireland, or somewhere like that?
CTBB Pentecost Service
Service Date: 23 May, 2010
Genesis 11:1-9The people who built the Tower of Babel lost their way because they got so much into their building, they forgot to ask where God was in all their work. As a result, they stopped being able to understand each other - because it's God's Spirit who is the love between us, and unless we have enough love for each other to give each other the careful attention we deserve as people made by God, we will misunderstand each other too, and whatever we're doing will fall to pieces, however well we think we've built it.
