Rodney Shotter was our preacher this Sunday and his theme was ‘Battling Mistrust and Unbelief’. Despite being let down by King Hezekiah, Isaiah wanted to reassure the people of Israel that God was trustworthy and that they needed to...
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A wonderful thing happened in church on 19th October. We were looking at Isaiah 24 which is a pretty dark chapter all about, doom, doom and more doom. The children had been set the challenge of creating a gloomy image on grey paper to go along...
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Six of the top fifteen films at the UK box office in 2014 featured a version of the apocalypse or a dystopian world saved by a superhero of some kind. There is an interesting discussion to be had about the 21st century obsession with this kind...
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Lay Reader Mike Hudson spoke to us about Isaiah 11 and the kind of writing that Isaiah produced. He told us of his own love of the metaphysical poets and how it’s important to read poetry in a different way to other forms of writing...
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This was also our Harvest Thanksgiving service. We sang a new harvest songs which you can sing along to here. Chapter 9 of Isaiah introduces some hope to the doom and woe which features so heavily in previous chapters. ‘The people who...
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This Sunday we focussed on what it means to be Holy. We’ve set some historical context to Isaiah in the previous talks but these writings also sit in a wider theological context which spans the whole Bible. The first utterance of the the...
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Vanessa Vollebregt guided us through the six woes in chapter 5 of Isaiah in her sermon on the 21st September. It is a pretty interesting list pointing the finger at all the immoral practices that had crept into the lives of the people of Israel...
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In November 2013 the Church of England published The Pilling Report on human sexuality which contained a number of recommendations for the church – you can read the report itself here. The report recognised that there are a range of views...
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Having looked at the background to Isaiah last week, we discover that chapter 2 begins in pretty much the same way as chapter 1 but the emphasis of the rest of the chapter is very different. Chapter 1 focusses on the sin of the people of Israel...
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At the beginning of a new season we are beginning a study of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah begins at a turbulent time in the history of Israel when the northern part of the country has been occupied by the Assyrians and the southern part is being...
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Adam and the Ape Professor Sam Berry from University College London came to St. Luke’s to speak about Creation and Evolution and the debate between science and religion that this often provokes and how we need to think differently about the...
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Pentecost Pentecost is often described as the birth of the church as it was the moment the disciples became fired up about the message of love that Jesus had passed on them and when they were given the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to tell...
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