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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Jun 12, 20194 min read
A new heaven and a new earth
We've had a few guest speakers recently, while our minister has been away, and they have kindly provided us with some of their notes....
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Jun 10, 201912 min read
From Babel to Pentecost
Yesterday was Pentecost, when the church celebrates the giving of the Spirit to the disciples and the beginning of the the global church....
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
May 26, 20193 min read
High and Wild and Holy
Between holidays and conferences, these few weeks have been a little higgedly piggedly and the blog has gone a little quiet. Things...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
May 13, 20195 min read
Where the Wayward Children Are
On Sunday we listened again for the voice of God in popular culture, exploring another story that points to the bigger story. This time...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
May 8, 20199 min read
Kubo and the New Creation
We’re doing something a little different at SBC over the next couple of weeks. Something I am really interested in is story, how the...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Apr 21, 20196 min read
The Big Story: Resurrection (Easter Sunday)
What can I say possibly say this morning that hasn’t already been said in two thousand years? Probably nothing. But perhaps I don’t need...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Apr 19, 201911 min read
The Big Story: Crucifixion (Good Friday)
Here you will find the text from our Good Friday service, based around the seven words from the cross, the last sayings of Jesus as...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Apr 15, 20198 min read
The Big Story: Confusion (Palm Sunday)
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and our theme was confusion. I realise that may seem an odd choice. Surely celebration would seem more...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Apr 8, 20197 min read
The Big Story: Incarnation
On Sunday we thought about the incarnation, and it was the sermon I had been most looking forward to but also most dreading, because for...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Apr 1, 20197 min read
The Big Story: Annunciation
So far this Lent, we’ve thought about creation and disconnection and anticipation, and on Sunday we thought about annunciation. After...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Mar 25, 20197 min read
The Big Story: Anticipation
We started Lent by thinking about creation, about how God made the world and saw that it was good. Then last week we thought about...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Mar 18, 20195 min read
The Big Story: Disconnection
Throughout Lent, we are looking at the big story from creation to resurrection. We started last week by thinking about the wonder of...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Mar 11, 20193 min read
The Big Story: Creation
On Sunday we started a new series for Lent, looking at the sweep of the story from creation to resurrection. Our service was cafe church...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Mar 4, 20196 min read
Working for justice...fairtrade
We are now into the second week of Fairtrade Fortnight, and so on Sunday we took Fairtrade as the focus for our service. We have been a...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Feb 18, 20197 min read
Ephesians 6: "Be strong in the Lord"
On Sunday we finished our study of Ephesians with chapter six, which picks up where chater five left off. There we heard that wives must...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Feb 11, 201910 min read
Ephesians 5: "Walk in the way of love"
We reached the penultimate chapter of Ephesians on Sunday, and we tackled it in two halves, starting with Ephesians 5:1-20. We are called...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Feb 4, 20198 min read
Ephesians 4: "Live a life worthy of the calling"
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve taken an image or a phrase from our reading and explored that, but on Sunday we took a bit more of a...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Jan 28, 20193 min read
Ephesians 3: "Rooted and established in love"
We covered two chapters on Sunday, so if you've not done so already, you might like to go back and catch Ephesians 2: "No longer...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Jan 28, 20197 min read
Ephesians 2: "No longer strangers and aliens"
Yesterday we continued our journey through Ephesians. I’m keen for us to hear the whole of this letter as we go through it, so we began...
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Rev Leigh Greenwood
Jan 23, 201910 min read
Ephesians 1: "A spirit of wisdom and revelation"
Over the next five weeks at SBC, we will be reading through the letter to the Ephesians together. That’s basically one chapter a week,...
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