Bible reading: Genesis 22:1-14. Message. There are a number of Bible stories which, when one starts to think about them seriously, are deeply unpleasant. Just last week Ruth told us that Junior Church had been learning about Cain and Abel – a story which ends with murder. That tale still gets told to children, but

Bible reading: Matthew 10:26-39. Message. I’d guess that most of us would think of Jesus as a peace-loving person, and the Gospels seem to bear this out. For instance, in the Sermon on the Mount, he commends peace-makers, saying that they will be known as God’s children. In the same sermon he tells his followers

Bible reading: Matthew 9:35-38. Message. “For a few days or a week or a fortnight, the fields stood ‘ripe unto harvest’. It was the one perfect period in the hamlet year. The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of the heather, miles of green

Bible reading: Hebrews 10:19-25. Message. Scrooby is a small village in the north of Nottinghamshire, about 10 miles south of Doncaster. At one time it was on the Great North Road; Cardinal Wolsey and Queen Elizabeth I both spent the night at the Manor House. It also sits next to the main railway line to