Service Date: 2 March, 2008

The story of a man born blind who met Jesus was retold.

Service Date: 24 February, 2008

The story of the woman of Samaria who met Jesus at a well was retold.

Service Date: 10 February, 2008

Journeying with God
As you started our journey this morning from the hall back into church, you were given a ticket with the slogan Buy Less - Live More and a Bible reference on it: Mark 10:17-27. It tells the story of someone who wanted to follow Jesus, but found the price of his ticket was just too high: the rich young man who had done everything right all his life, but couldn't face the challenge of walking away from the things he owned - you can look it up at home.

Service Date: 3 February, 2008

This service was led by Philip Baiden, a student minister who was sent for training from St Andrew's Church.

Service Date: 27 January, 2008

It's a funny thing about being a student: you move a lot. In the last ten years, I've lived in eight different houses in three countries. But now I've lived here in Sheffield nearly three years, I'm finally starting to feel at home. I have a house, which deserves more cleaning than it gets. I have a garden. I have neighbours whose names I know, whose children are growing up before my eyes. I even have milk delivered to my doorstep. It feels strange, but it feels good to have somewhere to call home. And I'm not the only one for whom having a home is important. Listen to Catherine's story, one of the stories we will hear at the Poverty Hearing at the Broomhall Centre this coming Saturday.

Service Date: 20 January, 2008

What's in a name?  I wonder, do any of you have nicknames? Names given by your friends – or maybe by people who don’t like you – that say something about who you are? Don’t worry, I won’t ask you to reveal any of the embarrassing ones!

Service Date: 13 January, 2008

Isaiah 42:1-9 (read by James)
James: Did you get that last bit all right, Sarah? I was trying to read it all out clearly to you from my notes of what he said, so you could make another copy, but I have to admit I’m not always sure what our master Isaiah is getting at. And we’re his disciples! I don’t know what people will make of it in thousands of years’ time.
Sarah: Do you think in thousands of years’ time people will still be interested? Surely the Messiah will have come by then, and our master’s puzzling teachings will be way out of date.
James:Well, we can’t start worrying about what they’ll think of it then. I’m just concerned about what to make of it now. I mean to start with, who is this mysterious servant he’s talking about, the one God’s really pleased with?

Service Date: 6 January, 2008

It's not over yet!
The tree’s down, the presents are unwrapped and put away – Christmas is over. Or is it? Imagine how the wise men might feel on their arrival in Bethlehem. They’ve been travelling for months, with nothing but a star and their belief in God to guide them. They’ve gone far away from the countries they know, from the customs and language and food of home, from the places where people know and respect them. They’ve set off a royal time-bomb in Herod’s palace, where a paranoid monarch is preparing to get rid of anyone who might want to tip him off his throne. And now they’ve finally got to Bethlehem.

Service Date: 25 December, 2007

God's present for us
Has anyone got a present they’d like to show us?
We’ve spent all Advent focussing on this tree: putting it up, taking it down to go into the church, putting it back up here again, decorating it, putting our young people’s skills and enthusiasm into making it bright with suns, moons and stars, leaves, flowers and fruit. We can be proud of what we have made of our tree. But now it’s time to go into reverse. Now it is time to look on our tree again and see what present God has given us.

Service Date: 23 December, 2007

Fruitful living
Isaiah the prophet was trying to encourage King Ahaz, the king of Israel in his day, to trust in God, to look to God to do something to help the people. But Ahaz wouldn’t ask. So Isaiah said, Right – God’s going to give you an answer anyway. God is giving God’s people a sign of hope. A young woman’s going to have a baby, and when he’s grown up things will be so good that he won’t need to do any work in the fields – he’ll drink milk from the cow made into curd cheese, and honey that bees have worked to produce. But that’s a long way off, said Isaiah, and things will go very wrong for you first. And sure enough, because the king wouldn’t trust God, but thought he could work out what to do on his own, he made some really bad mistakes, and God’s people were defeated and sent away from their land into exile.