Talks, sermons and lectures
May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. Well, it’s getting busier. The deadline for Christmas cards is just around the corner for those that you’re giving out. Have you ordered the turkey? How many presents have you had to buy? Are the plans for …
Are we there yet? I expect most of us have heard that at some point from the backseat of the car on a long journey. Our journey is not a physical one. But I think we can all be excused for thinking, are we there yet? It seems like the shops have been full of …
You and I are called to follow their example. To be saints here and now. It is not the path of popularity, nor is it easy, because it goes beyond what people expect or want of a Saint so that he or she doesn’t threaten our own sense of security or comfort or challenge our …
May I speak in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Many times when we pray, we ask God to protect us, we pray that we might be spared from illness, that we may gain wisdom, to deal with a bad situation, that he may guide us out of our …
A sermon in the week when 39 people died in a refrigerated container in transit between Zeebrugee and the United Kingdom. On the dangers of keeping score in society and before God. The Pharisee was exemplary. A good Jew. The Tax Collector, however was the worst kind of crook: a legal one. The difference is …
What Christ does is to restore us to right community – the community of angels singing with such joy. Through grace, our whole lives become a restoration project – restoring our broken and damaged hearts to wholeness as individuals and as a community. It was a bit of a family joke, that my mum was …
May I speak in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit, Amen. Would you please sit. Well here we are deep in the midst of Trinity. The Trinity season, the twelfth Sunday after Trinity, a time of reflection and growth and learning hence the green in all the vestments and so forth. …
How do I find out what are God’s ways for my life and my family? What does it mean to live as members of God’s Kingdom? This past week I have been able to have a few days retreat, to spend some time in contemplation and to read. I’ve been reading three books which point …
What do you feel passionate about and how as a church can we help you with that? We need to become radical rule breakers where we see injustice and also know when to keep the rules – God’s rules.
Seeing Hebrews 11 through the filter of a film trailer. All the emotional highs, the action sequences, and unexpected outcomes in the story of God’s healing or redemption of the earth compressed into a few verses of the Bible. Writing trailers for cinema is a real art form. They are designed to be and often …
