Redhill URC

Read Acts 2:1-41I

I am writing this a week before you will be reading these notes, so I know I am not up to the minute with the latest on the Covid19 Coronavirus situation. I am presuming we are still in lockdown but I am sure things will have changed since I have written this. I’m not going to guess what will happen but I do belie […]

This weekend, the Church celebrates with thanksgiving the feast of Pentecost. Sadly not in its buildings but still church together. We remember the story set out in the Bible in the book of Acts, of the coming of the Spirit in a wild wind and in burning flames, resting on the heads of the believers assembled in Jerusalem. As the […]

Read Acts 1:1-26              

Last Thursday we celebrated the Ascension of Jesus, next Sunday we will look at Pentecost. Acts 1 deals with the events after Jesus rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and the events up to Pentecost. Luke wrote this book, the Act […]

Through this weekend, churches reflect over the story in Luke when Jesus ascends to heaven. As an image today, it can be confusing as we have for some decades soared into space. In earlier days, the image of a pair of feet disappearing into the clouds was the way they expressed this story; we on the other hand, find this comical and unre […]

As the world struggles to emerge from lockdown, the Church remembers the confusion of the disciples of Jesus as they facelife without him after the crucifixion. Jesus is dead yet risen; how is that? During his life Jesus promised his disciples that he would always be with him and after that first Easter, they knew his pres […]