Sunday Worship In The Coronavirus Period
02 Apr 2020
Right now, we are in uncharted territory as the church. I am not an excessively emotional person, but the evening before the first Sunday we didn’t gather I was overcome by the thought of churches closed - not just across the UK, but across much of Europe and the USA. There are obviously good reasons...
Read More
Update 20/3
21 Mar 2020
I realise that for all of us, social distancing and isolation raises all kinds of new difficulties. They will be different for each of us. Some of us are adjusting to a new level of noise around us. Others are struggling with the quietness. Some of us are attempting to work, getting half as much done for twice the amount of effort. Others are struggling to find ways to fill the time...
Read More
Update (18/3)
18 Mar 2020
As you may have been expecting, EVERY PHYSICAL GATHERING OF THE CHURCH IS CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. This includes home groups, and Sunday services, as well as all youth and children's activities. This is in line with government guidance about restricting our socialising, for our own good and for the good of others. However, we wi...
Read More
Coronavirus Update (16/3)
16 Mar 2020
Dear Latimer Church, I'm sure, like me, you heard or watched the Prime Ministers' press conference with concern this evening. The growing spread of the Coronavirus is an unprecedented time in living memory. Please take this situation and the government guidance seriously. We can give thanks that the Lord has given us medica...
Read More
Discoverers and Toddlers
16 Mar 2020
15th March 2020 Dear Parents and Carers Discoverers at Latimer Church on Monday nights will continue unless the guidance from the government changes. If schools do close and we have to cancel Discoverers, we will let you know by text, email or on the church website. ...
Read More
Coronavirus update (12/3)
13 Mar 2020
I am sure you are aware that there is a very real concern about the spread of the Coronavirus. The government have today moved the country from the contain phase to the delay phase. I appreciate that in Beverley at the moment it appears like life is continuing as normal, and as Christians we do not live in fear, rather in faith in the Lor...
Read More
God Is Simple
21 Feb 2020
On Sunday mornings I have been preaching a doctrinal series exploring who God is, and in particular how he is different to us. He is the creator, we are created by him. He is self existent and self sufficient - he is the giver of life having “life in himself”, we receive everything from him. In the third sermon I preached we saw that God is s...
Read More
A Weightless God?
21 Dec 2019
As I write this we are right in the middle of the advent season, and so we are in the middle of all the preparations for the different evangelistic events and services we put on - the meal, the carol services, the various end of term celebrations in the different groups. While I am thankful for the opportunity to proclaim the wonder of the incarnation, and full of joy at the numbers...
Read More
Quotes From Recent Reading
21 Nov 2019
I once heard someone remark that although he read lots of books, it wasn’t so much the books that had shaped him as particular sentences or paragraphs. The reading of books was worth it to come across those thoughts. That is probably overstating the case for me, but I know what he means. Sometimes in reading I have come across sections that hav...
Read More