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on February 14, 2012

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Newlands Corner to St Martha's Church

A beautiful walk with Carol today. Found a walk on AllTrails going from Newlands Corner to St Martha’s Church. St Martha’s Church is also known as St Martha’s church-on-the-hill. And it really does sit on a hill, no access roads just trails through the woods up to where the church sits. It has Holy Communion or Matins every other week and the graveyard is still in use with evidence of a fresh internment. Our first visit to Newlands Corner and we were blown away by the views. It was a beautiful day, not too hot, with a little breeze. When you get to a place like this you realise just how beautiful England, and the United Kingdom can be, and how privileged we are to live here. View from the car park Down the initial slope and away across the fields. Through some pretty narrow footpaths. After what seemed a long climb through woods with a lot of sandy soil this was the fantastic view of the church. In some ways it’s beautiful yet in other ways it’s somewhat sad and melancholic, thinking a...

The Upper Rooms

We often think of the 'upper room' as being the place where Jesus and the Disciples held the Last Supper but the Bible has many more 'upper rooms'.

Sound familiar?

Watching the BBC interview of Adele by Graham Norton tonight and Adele sang one of the new tracks off her forthcoming album. The track was called A Million Years Ago. Listening to it reminded me of a different song by someone else. You know where you almost recognise a tune but get lost with the words, yet it's the words which are the key! Eventually it came to me, El Shaddai by Michael Card, famously sung by Amy Grant. It's a song that I occasionally play during worship. Have a listen. What do you think?

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