Cooksmill Green Congregational Church Church Anniversary 2020 This is a new and novel experience for me! Sitting down to write to a church that I was planning to attend. Facing a computer screen rather than the lovely fields around Cooksmill Green. I feel a little bit like St John must have felt in writing theRead more
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Do Not Be Afraid 21st June 2020 From the moment we are born we are immersed into a world of fear, we experience it as part of our survival, we are taught authority and respect through it, we are often controlled by it, which means we cannot hide from it orRead more
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Protest 14th June 2020 Our thoughts this week start I’m afraid on a rather serious note. They’ve been prompted by the events in America that have spilled over into the UK and other places. I don’t, however, want to consider those specific events, but rather the wider issues of violenceRead more
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Trinity Sunday 7th June 2020 The Trinity, what a mine field of opinion! This Three in One nature of God (Father Son and Holy Spirit) that we celebrate in the Christian faith is often hotly debated, and I fear it will continue to be so for some considerable time!Read more
A Penny for your Thoughts. 7th June 2020 “And the people stayed home, read books, listened, rested, and exercised. They made art, played games, learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. People began to think differently. And theRead more
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Pentecost? 31st May 2020 What is Pentecost and how did it start? There’s only limited space here, so a truncated version. The original Day of Pentecost is a Jewish festival, coming fifty days after Passover (when the Jews made their great escape from Pharaoh in Egypt). Jews in Jesus’ timeRead more
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – We Are One 24th May 2020 When reading the lectionary for today I could not help but find comparisons between our upturned world and the one those original disciples found themselves in and the difficult journey that they have also endured in recent weeks. What wild swings of emotion theyRead more
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – The Unknown God 17th May 2020 Our thoughts this week are again based on the reading from Acts set for the week (Acts 17: 22-31). This is the account of the apostle Paul debating with the thinkers and philosophers of Athens in the Areopagus – an important place for debateRead more
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Rainbows 10th May 2020 Did anyone see the beautiful double rainbow last week? I don’t know about you but when I see a rainbow I always think of Noah and how God sent his rainbow as a covenant to his people, a sign of hope. Then I thought, like us,Read more
A presentation from Sunday’s Cool. The Cooksmill Sunday’s Cool kids have created their own ‘lockdown’ presentation, please take a look. Sunday’s Cool is suspended at the moment, we will let you know when it restarts. Click any image to enlarge. Hope you enjoy our Sunday’s Cool Presentation, we look forward to seeing you all when the Church re-opens at CooksmillView the presentation