I want to make you question when we are taught to expect a Mighty King, suddenly returning in Power with Armies. Please, no more Jihad on my behalf! Nor on Jesus' either. Think more about what we expect to come, and how he looked the last time, and since. … [Read more...]
the Parable of the Investor
What is the House of the Lord?
Why do you matter in the life of this Church? Why do we need each other and we all need you? This teaching is about the way God actually needs YOU and ME. God has put himself in our hands. … [Read more...]
Reconciliation; the doorway to peace
This is a reflection, as part of our course on The Church seen through the teaching of Ephesians, on how I have experienced reconciliation as a gift from God, a life-changing, life giving moment, (and other moments too). From that I look at how the church service actually leads you into this and challenges you to take the theology at heart and head level. … [Read more...]
Baptism and a Parable
Children being brought for Baptism today coincide with the story of workers all getting just enough even though each one gave differently to the work.Being a person of faith leads you not to "abundant Blessings" or "outpourings of rewards" as some TV Evangelists teach. … [Read more...]
Teaching on Heaven and Hell
A Teaching on Staying in the Kingdom of Heaven, and slipping into the other place. Heaven and hell are mythologically vital ideas that teach you about negotiating the spiritual life now. This is not about life after death, but about life now. Jesus teaches on forgiveness as the practice which allows you to remain in a state of Grace. … [Read more...]
Holiness and the need to be unprotected
Why did Moses take his shoes off? Why do people of many faiths go barefoot in their places of worship? This is a teaching about being open and unguarded in order to be touched by holiness of the divine. … [Read more...]
Things done in love…
Love and faith are not things which feel constantly the same. Sometimes love gets very empty feeling. So does faith. … [Read more...]
Can you step out of the boat?
This is the teaching about stepping beyond your comfort, your safe zone. It is going where you think you might well sink, in the trust that, instead of falling downwards into disaster, God will have you fall upwards into Grace. … [Read more...]
Pentecost Sermon: Thirst!
The idea of the Holy Spirit as a Spring of Living Water, thirst-quenching, life-giving, is at the heart of the Bible teaching for Pentecost. For me, a quiet anglican, it is a deep quenching of real thirst that is the gift of the Holy Spirit. … [Read more...]
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