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This week’s reading takes us right back to the beginning – to the end of the first creation story in Genesis. God calls creation ‘good’ and then God takes a rest. What does it mean for us to be made in the image of God who rests?

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How would you sum up what it means to live well? How would you describe what the Christian gospel ‘good news’ is? In our readings this week – both well-loved gems from the bible – we get the outline of answers to these questions, and find ourselves dwelling on the idea of ‘blessing’…

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This Sunday finds us in the middle of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and we find in our reading that the desire for the Church to be united goes back as far as St Paul’s first letters to the early church

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Our reading tells of John the baptist seeing Jesus from afar and pointing him out as the Son of God: two of John’s disciples go to find out more about this Jesus…
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After the Christmas story, the gospels move quickly to the adult Jeuss’ public ministry. In Matthew’s gospel it all begins with Jesus finding John the baptist and asking to be baptised. Over John’s protests, jesus is baptised and our reading gives us the opportunity to reflect on baptism and the covenant of God’s promise which we are invited into. At the outset of a new calendar year, we take up the opportunity to reaffrim the covenant, borrowing from the tradition of the Methodist Church

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