Blog Author: Mr Mackley

Welcome to our final worship in the series "Follow the Star - Calm & Bright".

We have journeyed with Gabriel, Joseph & the Shepherds to consider how they felt/reacted to the message of Jesus' birth and how they remained calm and bright.

Today, we conclude by thinking of Mary, the mother of…

This week for our Thursday worship, I am sharing with you a story from Arabia about the little lambs from the hillside over 2000 years ago and how they went in search of a King who had been born in a stable . . . 

This week, in week 3 of advent, we continue to remain calm and bright as we follow the star, considering the story of the shepherds.

Ordinary men, not people others wanted to associate with and yet, God chose them to be the first ones to hear the good news!

(Apologies for the lack of sound…

As we are unable to meet for Prayer & Praise on a Thursday, I thought I would take the opportunity to share some of the traditional tales from around the world about Christmas.

For many years I have seen and bought Poinsettia plants but I had no idea why they were associated with Christmas!  In…

Advent has begun in churches all over the world and this week we are carrying on with our Follow the Star series, thinking about Calm & Bright as we consider the story of Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus.

As always, please do leave a comment for everyone to share - it was lovely to see so…

Welcome to this week's worship and (albeit a little bit early) we are beginning our journey through Advent, just like Christians all over the world will be doing in getting ready to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

In this worship we are introduced to the them of 'Calm & Bright' which comes from…

This week's worship is another of the parables of Jesus. As our school value this half term is respect, I have chosen this parable as it reflects that.

Here we learn the story of the three servants who were each given money to investand had to show the return on their investment. We are…

My worship this week is another of Jesus' parables.

As our focus this half term is respect, I have selected a parable which has that has a theme.

The Wise and Foolish Builders is a very famous parable, one I remember learning at Sunday School many, many, many yeras ago.

There are…

In this, the final Monday worship for this half term, I am returning to the book of Jesus' parables to consider another one which is linked to our school value of 'Community'.

We believe that everyone in our St Matthew's family is important and everyone belongs. The question is, "Does that…

This week's worship focuses on our ideas of perfection and compares it to God's idea of perfection.

Too often we struggle and stress about trying to be perfect and we get distracted by perceptions of perfection which are ridiculous and simply unattainable.

I hope that this worship helps to…

This week's worship looks at the old feast of St Michael, known as Michaelmas.

We learn who St Michael is and what he did to defeat evil as an encouragement to us that whatever challenges we face, with God's help, we can overcome them.

This week's worship is a special one to reflect on St Matthew as it was his feast day on the 21st September.

Who was our patron saint? Why did he follow Jesus? What can we learn from him?

Watch the worship and find out more....

(Please leave a comment to let everyone know what you learnt…