Monthly Archives: July 2009

What Binds Us Together?

delivered 26 July 2009 by Rev Dr John Evans 2 Samuel 11:1-15 Psalm 14 Ephesians 3:14-21 John 6:1-21 Today’s reading about David and Bathsheba, and her unfortunate husband Uriah, reads like yesterday’s headlines about football celebrities with no moral compass. Or indeed it is like anyone with enormous power and status who simply does what [...]

Newness is a possiblity

delivered on 19 July  2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 A baptism is a great occasion.  It is an occasion for rejoicing and celebration for the person who is baptised and for the church which welcomes a newly baptised member. Today the baptism of young Alexander is one of those [...]

What is our story?

delivered 12 July 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans Mark 6:14-29 Last Sunday afternoon I attended a seminar conducted by the US teacher and writer Diana Butler Bass.  She has studied what makes church congregations tick, and particularly why some seem to have more life and vibrancy than others.  To do this she presented some [...]

Bulletin Sunday 5 July 2009

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Power and love

delivered 5 July 2009 by Rev. Dr John Evans 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 Psalm 48 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Mark 6:1-13 Daniel Smith-Christopher (right), the keynote speaker at the recent Wisdom’s Feast conference, and preacher here at the Church of All Nations just a two weeks ago, says in a recent book that Jesus is a [...]

Bulletin for Sunday 28 June 2009

Sunday Bulletin 28 June 2009