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For our Shepherds in the St Luke’s Gospel account of that first Christmas Eve it started as just an ordinary night watching over their flock of sheep. They had no inclination of the disturbance to their lives that was about to happen and the ‘news of great joy’ they were about to be part of.

I’ve been asked recently what the theme for Christmas this year is. Over the last few years we have knitted sheep, nativity scenes, given away angels and followed the star.

Those of you who have ever done any bible study with me will know that I often say as a first question – what jumps out at you, what makes you go hmm? For me, in this passage, it is the interesting verb in verse 24, how to provoke one another to love and good

There’s a relatively new Phenomenon on the telly in these days before Christmas. Have you noticed over the last few years, there has begun to be an informal competition for the most clever/touching/dramatic narrative Christmas advert? Two penguins competes with an extensive Christmas table from a budget supermarket and a chain stores marauding fairies and

Like an innocent child wandering by itself into the kitchen and pressing the switches that will set the house on fire, some biblical texts have been taken out of their original setting and used in ways that would have horrified the original speaker or writer. Here in this passage we have one with exactly that

Our very own Rev. David Baldwin makes an appearance on the Church of England podcast this week. “Listen to hardworking Christians working on mission and growth in rural England. To read the full rural mission and growth learning report, including helpful examples of good practice, useful ideas and approaches, resulting from the February 2018 Renewal

Hot on the heels of our Think ECO Go ECO event on July 14th in Beaminster square has come the arrival of our Silver Award. The ECO Survey was completed and updated as new targets are met are part of Beaminster’s involvement as an ECO church with A Rocha. This is a global Christian organisation

Not content with walking nearly 30 miles and getting in all the papers our very own Rev David Baldwin was on the Breakfast In Dorset Show on Radio Solent this morning. In the interview he talked about his work before becoming a man of the cloth and more recent events such as the marathon walk