Resources

More Than Sunday

Resources to support your faith throughout the week

Spiritual growth doesn’t just happen on Sundays. Many in our St Thomas’s community use these resources to stay connected with God throughout the week. You’re warmly invited to explore anything that helps you on your journey.

🌙 Compline (Evening Prayer)

Sunday to Friday at 8:30pm (online) A peaceful way to end the day with Scripture and prayer. Each session lasts around 30 minutes. For the Zoom link or more details, please speak to John Anchor.

📱 Free Apps for iPhone & Android

Lectio 365

A daily devotional built around the P.R.A.Y. pattern:

• Pause to be still

• Rejoice & Reflect on Scripture

• Ask for God’s help

• Yield to His guidance

Pray As You Go

A reflective blend of music, Scripture, and guided prayer, inspired by the tradition of St Ignatius Loyola.

Sacred Space

A gentle, six‑step guided prayer session designed to help you slow down, reflect, and become aware of God’s presence.

The Bible App (Bible.com)

A huge library of Bible translations, reading plans, devotionals, and themed reflections—free on any device.

Bible in One Year

Daily readings from the Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms/Proverbs, with commentary from Nicky and Pippa Gumbel. An express version is available for shorter daily sessions.

📚 Print Resources

Word for Today

A free quarterly booklet offering short daily reflections on Bible verses and everyday life. Copies are available at the front of church—please take one.

New Daylight (Bible Reading Fellowship)

Four months of daily Bible readings, reflections, and prayers written by a range of contributors. Ideal for anyone wanting a structured approach to regular Bible study. Available by subscription.

👨‍👩‍👧 For Families

Explore ideas and resources to help nurture faith at home through The Kitchen Table Project: https://kitchentable.org.uk/

Ignatian Spirituality

Ignatian Spirituality by Revd. Richard Lambert

I admit to being a bit of a groupie of Ignatius of Loyola. I first came across him through the app Pray-as -you-go which I’ve been using as part of my Quiet Time for more than 12 years. What I love is the engagement with the stories about Jesus.

Ignatius of Loyola was born in 1491, the same year as Henry VIII, although their lives took them in radically different directions. After a remarkable conversion experience, Ignatius with others, including Francis Xavier, founded the Society of Jesus, an order of monks who quickly became known as the Jesuits, which was primarily a teaching order.

Fundamental to their teaching was the understanding that God can be found in all things, and that God loves us and is delighted with us, his creation.

One of the features of Ignatian Spirituality is called Imaginative Contemplation. Ignatius taught his followers to imagine the stories about Jesus in the most vivid way possible, using all the senses, in order to experience the person of Jesus and learn more about him and the implication of that knowledge for our own lives.

With my friend Betsy Jones, we have now run two courses at St Thomas’s, entitled Exploring Ignatian Spirituality. We plan to repeat the course in the near future.

Education for Ministry

Education for Ministry is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We seek to affirm, we seek to challenge and we seek to inspire people to recognise how God is calling them to respond to their learning. We are all called to “seek and serve God in all people” and so in the programme we practice theological conversation. 

Education for Ministry takes us where we are in our faith journey, young and old and helps us recognise that throughout our journey God calls us into ministries in the Kingdom. Our structured programme offers the opportunity to learn about the Bible, about our history and how to use the wealth of Christian teaching to navigate modern issues. We have the classic four year programme (although no one commits to more than one year at a time) and we have the new ‘Wide Angle' programme which offers a taste of everything in a one year course. We offer a group meeting here at St Thomas’s ona Monday afternoon and several on-line groups. 

We seek to affirm long held faith positions, we seek to challenge new ways of thinking about our faith and we sow the seeds of ways to live into our ministries in the Kingdom. 

For more information please speak to one of our Church Wardens.