When we feel we are inadequate for God's call, that is a good sign, because depending on God will become our only option.

The crowd sought to cancel Jesus.Eventually, they thought they’d cancelled him forever when they hung him upon the Cross, but he gloriously rose again and walked away.

But Jesus is in the ‘forgiving business’, and has the habit off seeking the lost and only walking away, when necessary - always with a forgiving and patient heart.

As disciples and servants of God, perhaps Jesus is asking us to fill the empty jars in our lives right up to the brim with love…. fill it with his word, fill it with the Holy Spirit…a symbol of water.……fill it with the right attitude towards one another……and set the stage for a miracle.

‘We don’t have the same experience as Jesus…but those words of God are for us too. Hear them today, you are God’s child, loved and with you God is well pleased. You are called by name, God is with you, you are precious in God’s sight.’

The Covenant Service at the beginning of a new year,

is set in the context of Holy Communion.

Remember God’s grace and forgiveness in Christ,

Remember he will sustain you for the journey ahead.

Remember his faithfulness to you, which can inspire our faithfulness in return.

A live broadcast recording of our Jazz Carols service from Sunday, 19th December 2021. The service was led by Dan Forshaw and the Jazz Vespers group with the London Jazz Choir led by Rachel Maby. The readings were from the MCHW team and the preacher was Revd Dr Jongikaya Zihle, Chair of the London District.

'We don’t just magnify the Lord through our worship in Church, but through coming alongside those who need us most! The compassionate rolling up our sleeves is also a sacrifice of praise!'

Deacon Ali McMillan - ‘Prepare the way’ by Methodist Central Hall, Westminster

'If we read the New Testament seriously, we can’t avoid the message that God will have the final word in human history.'

May we not think of those who have died as ‘lost’. Lost to us, maybe. But may we recall Jesus’s words, ‘No one has greater love than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.’ Such sacrifice, I believe, is not lost to God