Pewsheets

Pewsheet for the Week Beginning 4th December 2016

Pewsheets

With 4th December being the Patronal Festival of St Nicholas, each of our churches had a different pewsheet, only one of which is published here.  The notices are the same but not the readings.  If you wish to view the St Nicholas’ version of the pewsheet, email magazine@worthparish.org.uk and I’ll send you a copy, else click here to see the pewsheet as distributed at St Barnabas’.

Pewsheet for Week Beginning 27th November 2016

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Sorry about the slight delay in getting this pewsheet to the website.  But it’s here now!

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Pewsheet for Week Beginning 23rd October 2016

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Click here for the pewsheet for the week beginning Sunday 23rd October 2016.  Please note different readings were chosen for St Barnabas’, and are not shown on this pewsheet.

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  1. Open Adobe Reader, for example, by opening a *.pdf document you have on your computer.
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  4. Now any time you open a PDF, it will open at this zoom level.

From Roger Brown…

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From time to time you may read or hear about someone who has ‘lost their faith’. They no longer go to church or have given up their Ministry because of problems with belief.

To ‘lose one’s faith’ is a strange phrase because faith is not a substance or commodity – a thing to be lost. Faith is about a relationship with the mystery we call God.

There are those people who are full of certainty, which in my view is a very worrying position to hold. The opposite of certainly is not doubt but faith.
Our Christian journey is about learning to live with questions. We cannot, by definition, know all the answers but we keep on our journey, as we say, ‘in good faith’. I suspect that many people hide their view on belief, thinking that others have no problems.

Believing is difficult, so join the club and let us journey together. For me, one of the most important words in the Bible is ‘Hope’. I find great encouragement in the words of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Chapter 11). Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen!
Hope, as they say, springs eternal and St Paul tells us ‘There are three things that last for ever.  Faith, Hope and Love.’