“Revd Derek Spears preached this sermon on Romans 14:1-12, at our zoom service on Sunday, 13th September. Definitely worth watching!

A plea for tolerance, respecting those who have different opinions and not to judge those who aren't wearing a facemask."

One my favourite films is “Forrest Gump”. The film has iconic opening and closing scenes of a single white feather blown by the wind through the air – sometimes carried on an updraft, sometimes on a downdraft. This can have many interpretations – but the most obvious is that it is a metaphor for how the course our life takes is influenced by events that happen around us.

This is certainly the message from the film. Forrest Gump is a kind-hearted man from Alabama whose life seems to be directed by all the defining historical events in the post-war years of the United States. Through various personal highs and lows the film ultimately ends with Forrest leading a fulfilled life. He exercises no conscious control over the events that appear to determine the course of his life, but his uncomplaining and accepting attitude seems to carry him through.