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The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Stef
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Stef
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Stef When I first came to this church I didn’t believe in God but sometime, over nearly two decades here, I started calling myself a Christian. I grew up in a working-class and atheist household in Clerkenwell. We never went to the big church over the road…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Dean
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Dean
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Dean I started cycling on New Year’s Day 1994, at Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, where the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans meet. First I cycled up the west coast of South Africa, before reaching the long, dry roads of Namibia, then briefly in…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Julia
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Julia
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Julia Was it operation three or operation four? Sometimes I lose track, there’s been a few. Strange as it may seem it was an operation that cleared a path back to faith for me. A particularly difficult operation when it looked as if I was going to die and …
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sissy
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sissy
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Sissy Everyone knows me as Sis or Sissy but actually my name is Florence. That’s what I sign to at the bank. My brothers thought there were too many Florence’s in the family so, being their sister, they called me Sis and it stuck. There’s another thing ver…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Hilary
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Hilary
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Hilary I was born and raised in Muswell Hill where my family was dysfunctional. My dad imported metals from Africa. My mother bought lots of bottles of gin. Dad was ‘away quite a lot’ - that’s a euphemism - and high up in the Freemasons, dressing up and th…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Doreen
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Doreen
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Doreen Whenever I hear of someone getting married at St Luke’s my mind goes back over fifty years to a freezing cold Boxing Day morning in 1958. It seems like yesterday and I can see myself in my wedding dress walking through those same big old oak doors a…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Ezekiel
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Ezekiel
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Ezekiel Not many people at St Luke’s can say they used to work at Salisbury Cathedral. I did. I was an ordained preacher there…. Just kidding! But I did work there. I’ll tell you about it. I was born in Finsbury Park in 1961 and grew up in Surr Street, whe…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Agnes
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Agnes
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Agnes I think of the polo mint when I think of my lowest moments. For several months a few years back I was so poor that some days all I had to eat was a polo mint. This was after my husband had left me. Our marriage had gone wrong, he had started hitting …
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Everyone - Ivy
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Everyone - Ivy
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Ivy Ethel, my sister, was born in 1927 and I was born in 1920. We lived at number 29 Ashburton Grove, where the Arsenal Stadium is now, that’s where we grew up. Dad was a brass turner, working in Holborn. He was strict but loving. Mum was marvellous. We pl…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to John
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to John
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to John Once, a few years ago, completely by accident, I met my granddaughter. I should never have met her and it never happened again but just for a moment we looked at each other for the first and only time. We were completely speechless. I’ve never met any…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Judi
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Judi
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According To Judi My son will be 35 this year and it will be 35 years since I’ve seen him. After he was born in November 1976 I gave him up for adoption. His loss is one of many losses in my life and I’ve come to understand that loss doesn’t go away. Loss is always wit…
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sam
The Gosepl according to everyone - The Gospel According to Sam
by Martin Wroe
The Gospel According to Sam I‘d say I’ve been part of this church since about 1980, so that would be near enough thirty years. I started coming along after I moved to the Clocktower Estate and never really stopped. It was nearly 20 years before that, in 1962, when I came across t…
Gospel According to Everyone - Ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony reader
Gospel According to Everyone - Ipad/iphone/itouch - Sony reader
by Martin Wroe
How come in Church we only ever hear the gospels of four men in Palestine 2,000 years ago What if we heard a reading from a Fifth Gospel, from the stories of the people sitting next to us The woman who gave up her child for adoption. The gardener who notices God in the roses. The…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus Calls the Disciples
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - Jesus Calls the Disciples
by SPCK - N T Wright
Jesus Calls the Disciples Matthew 4.18-25 If you go to Galilee today they will show you a boat that might have belonged to Andrew and Peter, or perhaps the Zebedee family. In one of the most remarkable archaeological finds anywhere in the Holy Land (which is full of them), a boat…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Commending Phoebe, Greeting Friends
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Commending Phoebe, Greeting Friends
by SPCK - N T Wright
Commending Phoebe, Greeting Friends ROMANS 16.1-16 A farmer in the English Midlands was ploughing a field when the plough struck a solid object. Thinking it was a large rock, he stopped to move it. But it wasn’t a rock. It was an ancient chest, dating (so the museum told him when…
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - On Following Jesus
Matthew for Everyone Part 1 - On Following Jesus
by SPCK - N T Wright
On Following Jesus Matthew 8.14-22 What do you always do first thing in the morning? For some, it will be shaving. For others, it will be making a cup of tea. For some, it will be vigorous exercise. For others, it will be reading the newspaper. Put it the other way: if someone fo…
Matthew for Everyone Part 2 - The First and the Last