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In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone. How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?

In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified. Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?

John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…

A joint Pentecost service with St James, as we celebrated this important event and prayed together that the Spirit will re-fill us all again.

A chance to get some updates and insights from Luke Sharp into all that Compassion are doing at the moment.

The most famous storm was a long one – 40 days of rain. And one man and his family lived with the hope that one day it would cease. His hope was not disappointed, the rains stopped and Noah and his family and the zoo he saved could live again. But they had important lessons to learn when the sun came out again.

Jesus’ teaching about the wisdom we need to build into our lives offers us the only chance of surviving the storms that we cannot predict. But if we build well, the houses of our lives will survive.

The story of Jonah is famous because of the whale. But it’s actually about a man being brought face to face with his own religious and racial bigotry. Sometimes only a crisis can make you realise what you need to face up to.

Matthew retells the story of Jesus stilling the storm as part of a group of stories about how Jesus confronts all manner of hell-bent evil. He did it because we need to hold onto the core truth of Jesus’ authority over everything - especially when things seem to be going wrong.

Storms come to all of us. Without the storm Peter would have never had the chance to walk on water…

Jesus' story is that death didn't get the final word. Life did. Resurrection life. And his promise was that this new life is ours to share. Life always trumps death!

Jesus said just a cup of cold water would make all the difference. What is the equivalent for us today? What is the small action that shows a heart of kindness in action?