Before the service the steward read Ena'a note sending her love and saying she is settled in her new home. She has come regularly to Trinity and turned 101 in September.
Deacon Selina saw a rainbow on Faringdon Road on the way to church. What better way to start a Covenant Service! A pigeon was cooing from the roof as we said the Covenant words.
Revd Ian introduced the Covenant with a sermon. He also said that saying 'I am no longer my own but yours. Your will, not mine, be done in all things,' seems a sign of giving up our independence and self control to God. But what is the Christian life if not that, and doing that in love. He also said we could be doing a lot of the things already and so the covenant reinforces that resolve. He also said that sometimes we just reflect on one or two difficult lines rather than considering the covenant as a whole.
'Christ has many services to be done:
some are easy, others are difficult;
some bring honour, others bring reproach;
some are suitable to our natural inclinations and material
interests,
others are contrary to both;
in some we may please Christ and please ourselves;
in others we cannot please Christ except by denying
ourselves.
Yet the power to do all these things is given to us in Christ,
who strengthens us.'
Deacon Selina saw a rainbow on Faringdon Road on the way to church. What better way to start a Covenant Service! A pigeon was cooing from the roof as we said the Covenant words.
Revd Ian introduced the Covenant with a sermon. He also said that saying 'I am no longer my own but yours. Your will, not mine, be done in all things,' seems a sign of giving up our independence and self control to God. But what is the Christian life if not that, and doing that in love. He also said we could be doing a lot of the things already and so the covenant reinforces that resolve. He also said that sometimes we just reflect on one or two difficult lines rather than considering the covenant as a whole.
'Christ has many services to be done:
some are easy, others are difficult;
some bring honour, others bring reproach;
some are suitable to our natural inclinations and material
interests,
others are contrary to both;
in some we may please Christ and please ourselves;
in others we cannot please Christ except by denying
ourselves.
Yet the power to do all these things is given to us in Christ,
who strengthens us.'