The Lord's Prayer is a standard part of Christian liturgies - but is that how we're meant to use it? Is it even meant as a public prayer? Do we recite it without much thought? How can Grace use it, when our services have no fixed form? Come to Grace on 12th May to help us investigate.

The second in our series of services on the Lords Prayer

The first of a series reflecting on the Lords Prayer. How this prayer sets out our relationship with God as defined by Jesus – reliance on God – how is this more than just repeating a familiar phrase


Thanks to Ralph Liebenau for use of the image

Join us for February's Grace service where we will be exploring the presentation of Christ in the temple. 11th Feb, 8pm.

We invite you to join us for the first Grace service of 2012, wherein we will be unpacking different approaches to prayer based on the poem 'Prayer' by George Herbert:

Prayer, the Church's banquet, Angels' age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;
Engine against th' Almighty, sinner's tower,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days'-world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well dressed,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
The land of spices, something understood.

The above image is of the Earl of Carlisle's 17th century 'ambigu' at Naworth Castle, recreated 2006 by Ivan Day. For more astonishing recreations of historic food by Ivan Day see historicfood.com

What was it like for Zechariah, Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary as they waited for what God had promised? Come and join us as we sit with their stories this advent and wait for God’s intervention in our world. Everyone welcome. Mulled wine and mince pies afterwards! Illustrations by Si Smith.