3rd April : 6pm Meeting on Cumberland Street, NE28 6SL (W3W voted.spare.leader) walking to St John Street, NE29 6JD, (W3W slam.depend.drill). Approx 1.2miles 30mins trip. Short walk to metros to get back to start point. JOHN 12:12-24 Journeying God of the lost things Are they all lost to death? Is it inevitable? Can death be defied? Death feeding the very earth …
Walk : 27th February : 6pm Meeting beside Sambuca on Benton Road, NE27 OP (W3W edits.prowling.combines) walking to Shiremoor, NE27 SD, (W3W obstinate.tributes.stroke). Approx 2.4 miles 50mins round trip. GENESIS 28:10-19 Journeying God, of the lost things As we look for the ‘place’ Wander with us. When we take a break, when we rest for a while, when we sleep …
I wrote this blog backwards because it got far too long. So there is the short read which should hopefully be enough to take part in the discussion on Sunday (7:30pm Platform 2, Tynemouth). There is then the questions for our conversation. After that you will find the extended addition. It is looong but will give a bit more detail …
Luke 2:16-20 Who doesn’t like to celebrate? To let your hair down, to party with friends and families or just complete strangers and have a good time. Because life is good or you got that new job or its Friday and why not. Celebrating is a good thing to do. When the shepherds found the baby they had been told …
Genesis 18:6 We don’t speak of a hearth very often now. It is an old word used for a fireplace or the place in a house where the fire was and the family would cook on it and receive the warmth from it. It was the gathering place on cold winters nights where they would sit and eat and talk …
Matthew 2:13-18 There is a lot said about immigration in this country. Words like invasion are tossed around as if millions of people are pouring on to our shores on a daily basis and that there is no land for them to live upon, no food to feed them with and that all our systems are falling to pieces because …
Luke 11:9-10 We spend a lot of our lives looking for something. Sometimes we are very aware of the thing we are searching for. The perfect job, house, partner, or holiday. Sometimes the thing that we seek is there but we can’t quite put a finger on what exactly it is we are looking for. Often these unknown searches that …
Psalm 103:13-16 Remembering is important, it is how we learn. Sometimes our remembering is personal. We experience something and this experience teaches us something that we take with us going forward. From remembering to duck when we walk through that small doorway so we don’t bang our head to the feeling we got when we first fell in love and …
Matthew 2:1-12 Where are you as you read these words? Sat at home, in a coffee shop, on a walk. Maybe you are in one of your favourite places or an unfamiliar one that feels a little strange. In the story of Jesus’ birth we hear of numerous people having to move to new places or seek very specific ones. …
John 1:1-5 The opening of the book of John is an echo of the opening words of the book of Genesis. In the beginning! In the beginning there was nothing but God and then there was all things. The universe expanding into the mass of stars and planets, galaxies forming and solar systems falling into place. There was skies and …
