Worship Reflections from May 2026
17 May Ascension Fellowship@10
Theme: The Goodness of Christ. Fellowship@10 Sunday 17 May,2026 Today, we heard a reading from Acts chapter 1 verses 6 to 14. It tells the story of Jesus appearing to the disciples shortly before he ascends to be with his Father in Heaven. My focus today with be on Acts 1 verse 8 where we read these words “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,…
17 May Ascension Family@10
Acts | Just look around! Family@10, 17 May 2026 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Acts 1:6-14 There he was, living and walking and eating among us. There he was, hanging on a cross. And there he was, among us once again and explaining the scriptures and breaking bread. And then he simply … disappeared. Again and again people say that God is absent. A woman dies, her children are young: where is God? A longed-for baby is stillborn: where is God?…
10 May Easter 6
John | Her mother’s voice Fellowship@10, 10 May 2026 Alison Sampson, reflecting on John 14:15-21 Last week I caught up with someone who told me a sad story. She’d been cleaning up her mother’s place when she found some old letters her mother had written. I would like to tell you how much her mother had praised her in these letters, but I can’t. Instead, the letters were venomous. ‘My daughter is so difficult. She’s so brittle, so defensive, so selfish.…
3 May Easter 5
1 Peter | A holy nation Fellowship@10, 3 May 2026 Alison Sampson, reflecting on 1 Peter 2:1-10 ‘You are a chosen race,’ writes Peter, ‘a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.’ ‘Ura!’ shouts Vlad as he orders yet another series of bombings and sends yet another bunch of Russian boys to their deaths in his drive to extend the Holy Russian Empire. ‘Yes!’ screams the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda as it abducts yet more children to be…