Rob Wylie2023, Advent, bible, Sunday@thePub 1 Comment

Advent Week One – Letting Stuff Go – Mark 13:24-37 Hi folks, as we enter advent I have asked some folks to write a blog for each week, based on a passage, and a theme that the Methodist Church have put together called ‘Out of the Ordinary’. This weeks blog is written for us by Ben, to see the reading …

Celebrate : Wor Yem : Day 28

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

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 …

Expect : Wor Yem : Day 27

Rob Wylie2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Matthew 24:36-44 What do you expect out of life? What do you expect out of your spiritual journey? I was pondering on the first gig I went to post pandemic, I went to see Ferocious Dog, I was full of expectation of what it would be like, how I would feel, we stood at the back that night, just a …

Hearth : Wor Yem : Day 26

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem 1 Comment

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 …

Welcome : Wor Yem : Day 25

John Cooper2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Grab a coffee/ tea/ or other comforting beverage. A question to begin: When do you feel welcome? What elicits that warm, relaxed, weight removing felling? When do you feel you can be truly you? Picture the place, the people, the circumstances. …and sit with them for a little while. I can think of two places where I always feel welcome …

Safe : Wor Yem : Day 24

Rob Wylie2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

Psalm 91:1-4  We talk a lot in society and in the church these days about being safe, safer spaces, safer recruitment, safeguarding. Being safe is something that we all crave, and while many of us might say that we are safe I wonder what being safe means for you? Maybe that is a physical sense, or it could be about …

Flee : Wor Yem : Day 23

David Wynd2022, Advent, Sunday@thePub, Wor Yem Leave a Comment

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 …