This is a reflection which begins with the idea of belonging to someone or some body. What differences does that belonging actually make to you personally? If you think you belong to the God we see in Jesus, and learn about from the Bible, then what are the differences that this makes? … [Read more...]
St Thomas
– “Do Not Doubt-Believe”
The sermon on St Thomas looks at the way doubts are part of life and part of faith. But in both cases we have ways to find the support we need to get through, and actually find life in deeper richness. … [Read more...]
Easter Day Fire and Water
What does lighting a fire remind you of as the flame takes and the the wood crackles? What do you think of if you remember being rolled over and tumbled by a wave in clear cool water? If you understand the Resurrection, that is what might well spring to mind. This sermon helps join the dots for you. … [Read more...]
Good Friday Sermon
Who Killed Jesus? … [Read more...]
Maundy Thursday sermon
Maundy Thursday is the day of the Lord's Supper, and a moment of teaching about what being a member of his community requires. This is a hard teaching, but also easy. … [Read more...]
Palm Sunday Sermon
Palm Sunday's memories are always of Jesus on a donkey entering Jerusalem in triumph. But what about the men who got the donkey? Why is this odd story there? Is it a distraction or is it a teaching on being a disciple of the king who arrives on a scooter? … [Read more...]
Treasures in broken vessels
Apart from being the patron saint of green beer Patrick was wonderfully unlikely as a saint, and specially for the Irish. Behind his story is the crucial Christian teaching on the nature of greatness in a person. It is that being great is to do with realising what has been given to you, and then passing that gift on to those for whom it is next intended. It is not you that is great, but the treasure you carry. When you carry it well, like Patrick, you become a great carrier, and hence, in God's … [Read more...]
The Prodigal Father
Jesus tells a story about God, "The Prodigal Father". In the Centring Prayer Course we had a look at Ignatian Meditation. It is a way of reading the Bible, especially the Gospel stories, "as if you were there". Here is an well known parable of Jesus, and this is how I think it might have happened, with a lot of the details added back in. This is how I imagine it in my prayer, "as if I had been there". … [Read more...]
A challenge to get going
Lent is a time when we are supposed to let ourselves be uncomfortable. This teaching is all about discomfort and false comfortableness. It is a challenge to us as Church to do the same; getting up and getting going. Whatever you are working with in your life, I hope this helps you face the challenge, and invitation, to exchange deadening safety for the risk and the promise of abundant life. … [Read more...]
Setting your course of life.
Sometimes when things go wrong and life comes to a shuddering stop you have to re-think what you are doing. But in Lent the Church actually invites you to do this without a catastrophe to push you there.A life well lived is a life that you reflect on. A spiritual life well lived is reflected on, fine tuned and re-set annually. Getting ready for the New Birth of Easter, which is what you could call the weeks of Lent, is our time to do this. … [Read more...]
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