Easter Sunday – The Dawn of New Life

Matthew 28:1-10 (NIV) After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a […]

Holy Saturday – Waiting in the Silence

04/04/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone, Uncategorized / No Comments

Matthew 27:62-66 (NIV) The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still […]

Good Friday – The Weight of the Cross

03/04/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

Matthew 27:45-54 (NIV) From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, […]

Maundy Thursday – Love That Serves

02/04/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

John 13:1-17 (NIV) It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved […]

Tuesday of Holy Week – Teaching in the Tension

31/03/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth / No Comments

Matthew 21:14-17 (NIV) The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw […]

Monday of Holy Week – Cleansing the Temple

30/03/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

Matthew 21:12-13 (NIV) Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of […]

Palm Sunday – The Unexpected King

29/03/2026 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

Matthew 21:6-10 (NIV) The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit […]

Lent Reflection – Fourth Sunday

10/03/2024 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog

In the dark of night…a light.In the quiet time…a word of wisdom.In the midst of doubt…a truth.In a broken world…a saviour. Come, Son of God,lead us into light.Come, Lamb of […]

Lent Reflection – Third Sunday

03/03/2024 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild…as if.He loved the unlovable.He welcomed the untouchable.He challenged the unquestionable.He subverted and overturned assumptions.Come Jesus, upset the altars of my false godsand make my heart […]

Lent Reflection – Second Sunday

25/02/2024 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog / No Comments

We are the legacy.We are the gift.We are the covenant.For Jesus has no body but ours,no hands, no feet on earth but ours.Ours are the eyes through which he sees […]