Notices for Sunday 8th December, with details of our upcoming services and events at St Mark’s. Find out more about how you can celebrate Christmas with us!
A collect for the Second Sunday of Advent that you may wish to pray over this weekend.
Advent is a time to give time to consider and be thankful for the coming celebration for Christ – how are you thinking about the season?
As Advent begins, we celebrate the anticipation of Christmas Day through Advent with a special service of hymns, readings and choir pieces at St Mark’s.
The January edition of our parish magazine is available now in church: but why not download the last edition now? Want to advertise in our magazine – get in touch with us to find out more!
Notices for Sunday 1st December, with details of our upcoming services and events – find out how you can help with our early December Christmas preparations!
“Lo, he comes with clouds descending” – a fantastic hymn for this day from Charles Wesley, but as you listen to the lyrics, are you comfortable with the language? Power, glory, claiming the kingdom, thrones, people, nations – the language all of being under subjection to Jesus the King. But Jesus was a king who was different: he doesn’t conform to the pictures usually associated with kingship, with earthly glory and power. Rather, the King we follow is a servant king.
Notices for Sunday 24th November, with details of our upcoming services – and details of events through December!
Christ the King announces the start of Advent, and what better way to celebrate than with a feast? One for the kids – but how about a tea-time fare?
If you were starting a business that only produced one out of four viable products at the end of a complex and costly factory process, you’d be lucky to find investors to back you. However, although Jesus – through the parable of the sower – suggests three out of four won’t hear the message, with the Gospel always being freely available to all, success can easily come from failure.