by Michelle Catanach | Sep 9, 2022 | sermons
This is the last talk in my summer series about using hymns for private prayer: after this we will probably go back to biblical themes. Of course many of our hymns are biblically based, and this one certainly is. Though it isn’t strictly speaking a prayer at all,...
by Michelle Catanach | Aug 19, 2022 | sermons
So far I’ve picked hymns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but today we are going right back to the early Stuart period, well before our dear Prayer Book appeared in its present form. George Herbert was born in Wales, a clever boy in a noble family – the...
by Michelle Catanach | Aug 19, 2022 | sermons
To begin with a question – who do you actually pray to? Well, God, of course, as Jesus taught us, we pray to Our Father, to God himself. But a few months ago I was invited to a group which meets regularly for friendship and coffee and to pray together for other...
by Michelle Catanach | Aug 19, 2022 | sermons
How hungry are we to grow in our faith in Christ? Colossians 2.6-7: As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving....
by Michelle Catanach | Aug 19, 2022 | sermons
May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen So firstly an apology, some of you know I have had covid this week so if I cough or am a bit quiet or not myself – that’s why. But...
by Michelle Catanach | Aug 19, 2022 | sermons
Chief Atheist Friedrich Nietzsche once said ‘The Christian faith is from the beginning sacrifice: sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of the spirit, at the same time enslavement and self mockery, self mutilation.’ Not mincing his words there. I...
