Pastor’s Thoughts

Are you ready?  It’s been a long time coming but we are nearly there. Nearly where? Nearly at the start of some things that, we pray, will transform Bishop’s Stortford…

A message from John Walford at the start of Spring, reflecting on the conflict in Ukraine, and looking ahead to having The Bridge as a place of fellowship and prayer.

A message from John Walford at the start of the Christmas season. It’s a time when we celebrate the light that comes into the world – Jesus, the hope of all humanity.

John reflects on the significance of September and draws our attention back to our verse of the year from Philippians. It’s time to look forward with creativity as we grow our mission.

‘Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.’ Simon Curran shares his thoughts and reflects on Psalm 90:4 as we enter June.

Simon Curran reflects on the picture of the early church in Acts 2 and how we can continue to live out our calling in the context of lockdown.

Dear friends,  One of the themes that we felt it was important to develop this year is remembering to count our blessings. We’ll be starting March with a special Sunday…

Dear friends,  For our Bicentenary we felt that the Lord had given us a verse to focus on for the year. This was really helpful and so we thought that…

Dear friends,  So 2019 – our Bicentenary year – draws to a close, and what do we have to look forward to? Well, Christmas and the New Year, and they aren’t bad…

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike…

John reflects on his recent trip to Bethlehem, and what peace really means.

Dear friends,  I seem to be writing a lot about change at the moment. One of the reasons that change is difficult is because it touches us in many different…