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A British preacher went to visit the United States. She’d prepared a careful three-point sermon on the subject of the word ‘But.’

When you sit down to try think about what to get your friends, family and colleagues for Christmas you realise there’s one person it’s impossible to buy a present for, because they don’t really have interests or their interests are so obscure you have no idea what will please them.

I wonder how you feel about your body.

God of grace and truth,
in Jesus you embody your choice of us.

The words ‘Lighten our darkness’ begin one of the best-known prayers in the English language.

Black Friday, (in America the day after Thanksgiving), has become the feast of shopping. This year it it falls just a couple of weeks before this country goes to the polls.

I want tonight to explain and explore the vision statement that the PCC has chosen for the life of our congregation. The statement is Being with God on the edge. Just six words. I’m going to take it in three stages, beginning with on the edge.