SOLIHULL parish

Who is God? Ask a thousand people, get a thousand answers. But people really do want to know: throughout history, people have always searched for God. It’s as though there's a God-shaped hole in all of us.

Some of us try to fill that eternal hole with material possessions, some with alcohol, some with relationships or sport. But these things, however enjoyable, can’t fill the hole—and that’s why, ultimately, they can never satisfy us. We always want more.

Some fill the hole with the right ‘peg’, God himself, and find that God fits perfectly. That’s when we discover ‘the peace… which transcends all understanding’ as the Bible puts it.

When you open your heart to God, then God himself will tell you who he is.

So who is God to those who have the right peg in the hole? He is the mighty creator. Jesus also showed us that he is our loving father. He is not distant and disconnected; he has no big stick with which to beat us. He is a patient and forgiving God, willing to give us fresh chance after fresh chance.

But who does God himself say he is? According to the Bible (book of Revelation, chapter 1) he always was, before the beginning of anything - and he always will be.

In the Hebrew scriptures, God has many names which reflect that fact that no single name can ever convey the many facets of God. But however many names we use, there is only one God.

If we are willing to draw close, God will draw even closer. He is an intimate God, who longs to walk alongside us, every step of the way; rejoicing with us, laughing with us, weeping with us.

ST ALPHEGE

Sundays

8.00am Holy Eucharist (said)

9.15am Parish Eucharist & Sunday Club (2nd Sunday : All-age Eucharist)

Plus on 4th Sunday 'easy' in OBH rejoining Parish Eucharist at communion

11.00am Sung Eucharist

(traditional language)

6.30pm (except 4th Sunday)

Choral Evensong

6.30pm (4th Sunday)

Congregational Evensong

Plus at 6.00pm (1st Sunday)

‘the space’ – informal parish worship

(in the Oliver Bird Hall)

Weekday Eucharists

Monday 9.30am

Tuesday 9.30am

Wednesday 10.15am

Thursday 10.30am

  1st in month - Healing

  3rd in month - Mothers' Union

  Corporate Eucharist

Saturday 9.30am

Daily Morning Prayer

Mon-Sat 9.00am

(Wednesday 8.30am in term time)

ST HELEN

Sundays

8.00am Eucharist (Book of Common Prayer)

10.00am Parish Eucharist and Sunday Club 3rd Sunday : All-age worship (non-eucharistic)

6.30pm Evening Worship in Chapel

6.30pm (2nd Sunday) Wholeness and Healing service in Chapel.

Weekday Eucharist

Friday 10.00am

ST MICHAEL

Sundays

10.30am Holy Eucharist and Sunday Club (Sharmans Cross School)

10.30am (2nd Sunday) All-age worship (Sharmans Cross School).

4.30pm (2nd Sunday) Holy Communion (St Michael's Chapel).

Weekday Eucharist

Wednesday 10.00am at Oak Cottage