Song of Solomon 2. 8-13 The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: ‘Arise, […]
During the final days of August the Church of England’s calendar of commemorations of saints has a fine cross section of characters, most of which we share with other churches but one of them is English and generally regarded as a Baptist. They are a varied bunch making up our Christian heritage, inspiring us on […]
Joshua 24. 1-2a and 14-18 Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said to all the people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his […]
Proverbs 9. 1-6 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table. She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town, ‘You that are simple, turn in here!’ To those without […]
1 Kings 19. 4-8 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom […]
We take the safeguarding and care of children and vulnerable adults very seriously at St Stephen’s.
