A Christmas morning service that starts by going round the room asking what everyone got, before turning to the gift the day is actually about.
Psalm 23, opening with thanks for a staff member protected in a car accident two days earlier — the shepherd who is present in the valley.
1 Corinthians 13 read in full, in a service given over to Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger — love that always protects, always hopes, always perseveres.
Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11 — a story the preacher openly admits he does not like, and works through rather than around.
James 4:8 — draw near to God and he will draw near to you — read alongside Mark 2. The promise is that you are as close to God as…
John 20 returns to fill in what the first account left out of Mary's morning at the tomb — a reminder of how particular the Bible is about people.