It’s on our heart to offer a warm, welcome, inclusive and safe space for everyone! Why not join us and see how you like it? We offer prayer during and after the service and have a designated prayer corner.
Sunday 10.30 am
This is a mixed-style service, formal and informal, with robes and candles, traditional hymns and contemporary worship led by a singer and band (approximately 75 minutes).
Children are welcome to take part in supervised craft activities and play at the back of the Church with parental supervision. Every 2nd Sunday of the month is “children’s church” incl. Bible story and action songs. We are a multi-ethnic congregation with members spanning a wide range of ages from toddlers to the elderly and lots of families. Refreshments are available after each service.
Wednesday 9.45am
A Said Eucharist with one hymn lasting approx. 40 mins. Service sheets are used, and refreshments are available afterwards.
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JOURNEYING WITH CHRIST
(please feel free to contact Revd Chris for further advise)
SPIRITUAL ROUTINE
Why not receive each day with gratefulness and as a new gift every morning, invite God’s presence and commit to him afresh.
Why not release the day at night by recalling God’s closeness and care and moments when we felt disconnected; then giving thanks, confess our failing, and then letting go and leaving in God’s hands things that we left undone and that threaten us.
Why not use the following Acronyms:
P.R.A.Y.: Praise, Repent, Ask and Yield;
A.C.T.S.: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication;
‘The Seven Ps of Prayer’: Presence, Praise, Purpose, Petition, Pardon, Protection and Persistence.
Daily Devotions – Online
Lectio 365 is a free daily devotional app that helps you pray the Bible every day. See https://www.24-7prayer.com/resource/lectio-365/
The Church of England’s Time to Pray presents everything you need for Prayer During the Day and Night Prayer. See https://www.chpublishing.co.uk/apps/time-to-pray
Read the Bible in-a-year with Read the Bible with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel @ https://bible.alpha.org/en/
Read Daily Meditations from the Centre for Action and Contemplation – Theme for 2026: ‘Good News for a Fractured World’ @ https://cac.org/daily-meditations/
Praying the Daily Office with the Northumbria Community @https://www.northumbriacommunity.org/offices/how-to-use-daily-office
Daily Devotions – Books
Brueggemann, Walter, Gift and Task. A Year of Daily Readings and Reflections (Louisville, Kentucky, 2017)
Chambers, Oswald, My Utmost for His Highest (Grand Rapids, MI, 1992)
Foster, Richard J. and Julia L. Roller, A Year With God. Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines (New York, 2009)
Keller, Timothy, My Rock My Refuge. A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms (London, 2018)
McLaren, Brian D., Seeking Aliveness: Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practice the Christian Faith (London, 2017)
Newell, J. Philip, Celtic Benediction. Morning and Night Prayer (Norwich, 2000)
Rohr, Richard, A Spring Within Us. A Year of Daily Meditations (London, 2018)
Rohr, Richard, Yes, And … Daily Meditations (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1997)
Willard, Dallas, Hearing God Throughout the Year. A 365 Devotional (Downers, Grove, Illinois, 2004)
The Bible
Access numerous Bible translations online via BibleGateway (also available as mobile phone app) @: https://www.biblegateway.com/
Arguably the most accessible translation is the New International Version (NIV), and the most authentic translation is the New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
Bible Commentaries & Sermons
For the most accessible book series, see Tom Wright, For Everyone Bible Study Guides, published by SPCK (London)
For accessible and insightful Videos and Guides about each Book in the Bible and specific Themes in the Bible, see the BibleProject: https://bibleproject.com/
Preachers find the following two series insightful:
Charles B Cousar et al (eds.), Texts for Preaching. Year A. Year B. Year C. (Louisville, Kentucky, 1993ff)
David L. Barlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (eds.), Feasting on the Word (Louisville, Kentucky, 2010)
For insightful sermons, see the following preachers (books / YouTube / audio): Walter Brueggemann, Stanley Hauerwas, Timothy Keller, Martin Luther King, Richard Rohr, Samuel Wells, and Rowan Williams.
LITERATURE
Wanting to go deeper on how to read the Bible, or what it means being a Christian?
(many available as 2nd-hand books):
Bauerschmidt, Frederick C., The Love that is God (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020)
Beck, Richard, Stranger God. Meeting Jesus in Disguise (Minneapolis, 2017)
Bentley Hart, David, That All shall be Saved. Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (London, 2019)
Bentley Hart, David, Atheist Delusions. The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (London, 2009)
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, The Cost of Discipleship
Borg, Marcus J., Reading the Bible Again For the First Time (San Francisco, 2002)
Boyd, Gregory and E.K. Boyd,Letters from a Sceptic. A Son wrestles with his Father’s Questions about Christianity (Colorado Springs, 2008)
Brown, Brene, Daring Greatly. How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead (2013)
Brown Taylor, Barbara, Always A Guest. Speaking of Faith Far from Home (Norwich, 2020)
Brown Taylor, Barbara, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York, 2015)
Brueggemann, Walter, From Judgement to Hope. A Study on the Prophets (Louisville, 2019)
Brueggemann, Walter, ‘How to Read the Bible on Homosexuality’; see
https://outreach.faith/2022/09/walter-brueggemann-how-to-read-the-bible-on-homosexuality/
Brueggemann, Walter, Journey to the Common Good (Louisville, 2010)
Brueggemann, Walter, The Bible Makes Sense (London, 2016)
Campbell, Douglas A., Paul. An Apostle’s Journey (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2018)
Campbell, Douglas A., Pauline Dogmatics. The Triumph of God’s Love (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020)
Chalke, Steve, A Manifesto for Hope. Ten principles for transforming the lives of children, young people and their families (London, 2023)
Cone, James H., The Cross and the Lynching Tree (New York, 2020)
Church of England, Living in Love & Faith. Christian Teaching and Learning about Identity, Sexuality, Relationships and Marriage (London, 2020)
Foster, Richard, Celebration of Discipline. The Path to Spiritual Growth (London, 2008)
Haley Barton, Ruth, Invitation to Solitude and Silence. Experiencing God’s transforming presence (London, 2021)
Halík, Tomáš, The Afternoon Of Christianity. The Courage to Change (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2024)
Heuertz, Christopher L., The Sacred Enneagram. Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2017)
Ivereich, Austen, First Belong to God. On Retreat with Pope Francis (Dublin, 2024)
Jersak, Bradley, A More Christlike Word (New Kensington, 2021)
King, Martin Luther, A Testament of Hope. The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr (New York, 1986)
Lewis, C.S, Mere Christianity (London, 2002)
Lohfink, Gerhard, Jesus of Nazareth: What he Wanted, Who he Was (Collegeville, Minnesota, 2015)
McLaren, Brian D., Life after Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart (2024)
Nouwen, Henri J., The Road to Daybreak. A Spiritual Journey (London, 1988)
Pope Francis, On Fraternity and Social Friendship (2020) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home (2015) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Pope Francis, On The Call to Holiness in Today’s World (2013) – see https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html
Pritchett, Chris and Marjorie J. Thompson, On Retreat with Henri Nouwen. Engaging Life’s Big Questions (London, 2021)
Rohr, Richard, Falling Upwards (London)
Rohr, Richard, The Tears of Things. Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage (London, 2025)
Rohr, Richard, The Universal Christ (London, 2019)
Swamy, Muthuray, Reconciliation (London, 2018)
Thurman, Howard, Jesus and the Disinherited (Boston, 1976)
Valerio, Ruth, Saying Yes to Life (London, 2020)
Volf, Miroslav, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation (2019)
Volf, Miroslav et al., Life Worth Living. A Guide to What Matters Most (London, 2023)
Wells, Samuel, A Future that’s Bigger than the Past (London, 2019)
Wells, Samuel, Walk Humbly. Encouragement for Living, Working, and Being (London, 2019)
Williams, Rowan, Being Christian (Cambridge, 2014)
Williams, Rowan, Silence and Honey Cakes. The Wisdom of the desert (Oxford, 2003)
… and finally, for something seemingly simple, but specially profound & beautiful
Ladinsky, Daniel, Love Poems from God. Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West (London, 2002)
Mackesy, Charlie, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (London, 2019)
Tutu, Desmond, and Douglas Carlton Abrams, God’s Dream (2008)
