Trinity High Wycombe and Cores End United Reformed Churches - Sermons 1 year ago. #AllAreWelcome

Trinity High Wycombe and Cores End United Reformed Churches - Sermons 1 year ago. #AllAreWelcome

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  • Sunday, 3rd October 2021 - Part 1 - Buildings and Birthdays
    • Introduction: ‘Buildings and Birthdays’ 
    • It's good to be in this building where worship has been offered for 171 years 
    • Buildings are special, become special to us 
    • We haven't been able to meet together over the past 18 months 
    • Rethinking how we offer worship 
    • What's the future of this building - we are thinking and praying about that  
    • What makes a good building? Foundations, a good design, a purpose 
    • Building with bananas 
    • Celebrating 49 years of worship since the foundation of the URC
    • Promotional video for the URC 50th anniversary celebrations   
    • Reading: Matthew 6. 24 – 29 (NIVUK)
      • 15 min
    • Sunday, 26th September 2021 - Part 3 - Reminiscing about our younger days, chanting in church
      • Introduction to reading: Why do we like to reminisce about things from our younger days 
      • 40 years ago we used to have a chanted Psalm every week at Trinity 
      • The history of the psalms 
      • Some bible texts requiring rewriting during the reformation 
      • Erasmus wrote he would have certain passages from Paul translated so  that "not only Scots and Irish could understand them but Turks and  Saracens might read them as well"
      • Hymn I to the hills will lift mine eyes    
      • Reading: Philippians 2. 1-11 (NIVUK)
        • 13 min
      • Sunday, 26th September 2021 - Part 2 - The power of the Psalms
        • Talk: The power of the Psalms  
        • Getting back to singing in Church has been great 
        • Psalms are the great hymn-book of the bible, prayers and poetry for believers 
        • 150 hymns or prayers 
        • Huge variety from lament to joy
        • Jesus sang psalms with his his disciples and then references Psalm 22 when on the cross, finally commending himself into his father's hands  using psalm 31 
        • At the reformation there was a desire for all to sing the psalms 
        • Psalm 23 inspired many people, George Herbert, Isaac Watts and Henry  Baker  
        • Reading: Psalm 23 (NIVUK)
          • 10 min
        • Sunday, 19th September 2021 - Part 2 - Dreams, plans and grace
          • Reading: 2 Corinthians 8.1 – 9
          • Short Address - Readings that speak for themselves 
          • Joseph responding to a situation of huge need as Ant and the Christian Aid film have challenged us to do 
          • Reflecting on 3 themes, dreams, plans, and grace 
          • More vivid dreams during lockdown 
          • The difference between shelves in supermarkets in Britain and Africa 
          • "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. 
          • Dreams are never enough though, we have to put them into action 
          • Joseph interprets the dream but also puts a plan into action 
          • Paul challenging the Corinthian church to respond and go further 
          • Grace costing Paul his life when he took the collection to Jerusalem  
          • The grace of Jesus who became poor so we could become rich in love
            • 14 min
          • Sunday, 19th September 2021 - Part 1 - Food for all, a mixed harvest, OneCan update
            • Introduction: ‘Food for all’ 
            • A mixed harvest this year, what have you managed to grow? 
            • Potatoes, tomatoes, squash, beans, courgettes 
            • The raised bed at Cores End which the nursery has been helping with 
            • No sprouts due to the caterpillars 
            • Farmers in Britain and the difficulties getting produce onto the shelves  
            • One Can Update by Ant Barnes  
            • Reading: Genesis 41. 14 – 40
              • 17 min
            • Sunday, 12th September 2021 - Part 2 - Picnics and false pretences
              • Reading: Mark 8 vv 27 – 38  
              • Address: The first announcement of the passion makes it clear that Jesus doesn't want his disciples to come under false pretences 
              • He never asked them to come on a picnic 
              • Suffering, the cross and death were in plain view 
              • Unless we see that clearly, we miss the glory of the gospel Jesus spoke plainly of the cost of discipleship 
              • Many times we do not follow his frankness, mumbling his words 
              • John Bowering puts it this way: "When the sun of bliss is beaming, light and love upon my way. From the cross the radiant streaming adds more lustre to the day"
                • 17 min
              • Sunday, 5th September 2021 - Part 2 - Food for the soul
                • Reading: Luke 15.11 – 31   
                • Prayer 
                • Short Address:
                • Food is so basic to our lives and yet so much more than just a bunch of calories 
                • It's part of our culture and history, it affects our health and mood and can be a source of joy, blessing, anxiety and injustice 
                • High Wycombe as a hotspot of food insecurity in 2021 
                • We will focus on the work of our local food bank in our harvest celebrations but today I want to look at food for the soul 
                • We have the familiar, famous story from Luke's gospel about the lost son. 
                • Food has an essential place in this story 
                • Looking at the Rembrandt painting of the scene, picturing the returning son broken and in rags, kneeling before his father.  
                • The focus though is on the father who embraces his son and welcomes him back 
                • Sharing communion together
                  • 20 min
                • Sunday, 5th September 2021 - Part 1 - Food, glorious food
                  • Did you have a good breakfast this morning? 
                  • A traditional fry up or something more healthy 
                  • Did you have more time to cook during lockdown? 
                  • We've been sharing our magazine with lockdown recipes over the past months 
                  • Who tried the lockdown crumble or the nettle and wild garlic soup? 
                  • At this time in the calendar we think about our relationship with the planet and our care for God's creation 
                  • Moving towards a more plant based diet to help  
                  • Focusing on food insecurity at our harvest service 
                  • Sharing communion to feed on the love of Christ  
                  • Reading: Isaiah 55. 1 – 7
                    • 12 min

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