Welcome to our Lent Course

Last week Chris was helping us pray using the Psalms and I think this leads us nicely on to this week’s topic music. You see I can remember as a child being in services where psalms were sung and we on occasion still do that in our services. During lockdown I have...

In a sense, all Psalms are public psalms in that they are available to all but some are more suitable for corporate worship and corporate prayer as they look at issues of general interest and are not focused so much on the individual. Psalm 104 the great song to the...

We will concentrate on two psalms today Psalm 145 and Psalm 8 Psalm 145 tells of the memory of God passed from one generation to another, verse 4 ‘One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts...’ Think of all the people who have...

George Santayana, the American thinker and poet is famous for his statement “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Essentially, we need to learn from what has gone before. This needn’t be a negative thing concerning learning from our...

At the age of 8, I joined the parish church choir in my home town which met for 1½ hours each Tuesday and Thursday and then sang at the 11.15 am and 6.30 pm services on Sundays. We even deputised occasionally for the Guildford Cathedral choir during August when the...

There may be times when we have become so overcome with anguish that we feel utterly overwhelmed with sorrow and completely and soul-despairingly alone. In times like these, it helps to remember that God is there, and He is ready and able to bear our burdens and to...

Augustine of Hippo said, “If the psalm prays, you pray. If the psalm laments, you lament. If the psalm exalts, you rejoice. If it hopes, you hope. If it fears, you fear. Everything written here is a mirror for us.”  Here I believe he is saying ‘make the psalms your...

Faith that does not make a difference to others is a self-indulgence. The first Commandment is to love God and the second is of similar importance, to love our neighbour. Our lives are spent working out what this means and how. Facing Outwards is the third movement in...

Traditionally heaven is “up there”; God is “up there”. While this is not true geographically, there is psychological and spiritual truth in this. When we ‘look up’ we raise our spirits; when we are cast down, we are ‘down’. When our heads droop it is often from...

Ash Wednesday    Looking within For these first three days, we are going to reflect on how our Team Logo can help us pray. The logo describes three movements for us in our life of faith, facing up – connecting with God (and it is so easy in a busy or anxious life to...

'Let us Pray' -  Lent 2021 - Turton Moorland Team Five weeks praying in different ways – learning new ways to pray – putting our roots down. Join us on a shared adventure as individuals, as families as the church family A daily task or project in prayer and five...

This Lent will be different from previous Lents. We cannot do all the things we would like to do. A balanced spirituality includes Worship Prayer Scripture Communion Care and concern for others Supporting the church Most of these we are used to doing together or with...