Sunday 12th July 2026
Join us in person or online for a streaming service via Zoom at 10.30 am – check your email or contact us for the details.
A recording of the service is available here.
Sunday 5th July 2026
Join us in person or online for a streaming service via Zoom at 10.30 am – check your email or contact us for the details.
Our service this Sunday is one of Believer’s Baptism and Communion; our good friend Phil will declare his love of and faith in Jesus.
A recording of the service is available here.
1st July 2026 – Taking a break
Thought for the Day is taking a short break, but we’ll be back on August 5th.
Sunday 28th June 2026
Join us in person or online for a streaming service via Zoom at 10.30 am – check your email or contact us for the details.
This morning’s worship is led by the Revd Dr Ken Stewart.
A recording of the service is available here (note that the lyrics to ‘Alleluia! Raise the gospel’ are blank, due to an error).
26th June 2026
Merry and I can now report achieving our ambition to spend a night on the beautiful island of Iona – in fact, we had three. The weather was mixed, but this is the Scottish West Highlands after all! We heard corncrakes, exchanged ‘hellos’ with countless passers-by, enjoyed wonderful skies and the sea in a variety of moods and shades of blue. It was so good that we hope to do it again!
I can’t claim any special, mystical experiences while visiting this sacred place, but I was struck by a contrast and a connection. Some of you may recall that I recently led a brief act of worship for those members of the Tyndale congregation who couldn’t make the combined service we’d been invited to at St Mark’s Baptist Church on Trinity Sunday. We used a liturgy from the Iona Community, adapted slightly to reflect our urban context. Exactly one week later, Merry and I attended worship in Iona Abbey when the very same liturgy was used, a liturgy originally created to reflect life and faith in God in a context far more rugged and dramatic than Whiteladies Road.
In the familiar surroundings of Tyndale, we knew one another pretty well; in the Abbey, we were a one-off gathering of strangers, speaking with a variety of accents and coming from many different lands and Christian traditions. Same words and responses, same focus on God’s grace to us through the gift of his Son, Jesus Christ, same desire to share God’s love with a needy world. Suddenly, for me, those two distinct Sundays, congregations and settings revealed their true oneness in Christ.
Ken Stewart
Sunday 21st June 2026
Join us in person or online for a streaming service via Zoom at 10.30 am – check your email or contact us for the details.
The service will be led by members of Tyndale’s congregation.
A recording of the service is available here.
19th June 2026
Sarah Dodds, good friend and former member (and organist) of Tyndale, has kindly given me permission to share a prayer she wrote for Music Sunday (14th June):
Dear Lord, we thank You for the gift of music; for all the ways it enriches our humanity, touches the deepest parts of our being and brings us closer to You. For pulse and rhythm, connecting us with the heartbeat of life, energising us and putting us in sync with each other; for melody, adding grace to the lines of our lives; for harmony – dissonance and consonance – revealing to us new dimensions in our experience; for timbre and texture, reflecting the infinite colours of life.
Help us, Lord, to weave our part in the music of creation.
Just as our instruments have to be tuned and repaired, tune us up to the tones of Your love. Just as musicians have to practise and rehearse, give us patience and diligence in following You and faith that we, too, can produce something of beauty. Just as we have to learn to listen to make music, help us to listen better to others. Just as we have to move past the wrong notes and mistakes in live performance, give us grace, humour, compassion and playfulness to dance on in life and be accepting of our failings.
May our music-making proclaim Your glory. May our souls sing of Your love. And may our sounds serve to reveal the wonder of Your silence in the mystery of time.
A big thank you to Sarah – and to all those in Tyndale and beyond – whose music making enriches our lives.
Ruth Allen
17th June 2026
Some of you will know that I have become evangelical about hearing aids since I took the plunge and got a pair at the end of last year. My life has been transformed by them: I knew that I was not hearing very well but I had no idea just how many high-frequency sounds I was missing. I am still being surprised not just by how many things I can hear but also by what familiar things sound like. I have spent the past months boring people with news of things that, presumably, they have been hearing all the time.
I am starting to calm down a bit now as I get used to my new superpower; I don’t think that I am bothering people with my news quite so much. However, each night I take them out and get reminded of what a difference they make to my life. So I’m ready to tell my story to anyone who wants to know.
Now, about this life-transforming Jesus…
Nick Parsons
Sunday 14th June 2026
Join us in person or online for a streaming service via Zoom at 10.30 am – check your email or contact us for the details.
A recording of the service is available here.
12th June 2026
I have been reading two psalms over the past couple of days. The first, Psalm 33, is from the lectionary for this week; the second, Psalm 88, is from Guidelines Bible reading notes. You may want to read them in full – they are quite short – but here is a selection of verses that capture their sense:
Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
Psalm 33: 1-3, 22 (NIV)
it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
Praise the Lord with the harp;
make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully, and shout for joy.
…
May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.
I am overwhelmed with troubles
Psalm 88: 3-4, 18 (NIV)
and my life draws near to death.
I am counted among those who go down to the grave;
I am like one without strength.
…
You have taken from me friend and neighbour–
darkness is my closest friend.
The Psalms are probably the most personal of all the Biblical literature, the most emotionally engaging. Elsewhere we find adventure stories, pearls of wisdom, history, complex theology… all worth a read, but when we encounter the Psalms it feels like we are sat listening to folk like ourselves, questioning the difficult times, praising the good times, sometimes just going through the rituals of life.
Perhaps you identify with the writer of Psalm 88, struggling with events and questioning if God is still around. Or maybe you are full of joy, singing praises to God throughout the day. I suspect most of us find ourselves moving between the two.
Ian Waddington