Playing Kiss-Chase with God
Advent is not about God being out to get us but instead God’s quest to bring us home
Category: Bible Study
Prepared Unpreparedness
Sometimes, even in the middle of expected disaster the best preparation is to be unprepared and instead wait and listen.
Everyday Saints – A Sermon
Sainthood for Dummies!
To be a saint is the everyday task of the Christian. However tradition dictates that we can only become saints once we have died. Learning to die is the key to learning to live.
Ecclesiastical Time Lords
There may be a ‘time for everything under earth. Some are ‘good’ times and some are ‘bad’ times but how do we cope when death comes to us at the ‘wrong’ time?
Fiscal Prudence in the Kingdom of God
In Public and Private life many of our ventures fail because we do not completely commit ourselves to them. Commitment to Christ enables all our other loves to be ordered correctly.
Battle Wounds
‘The salvation of my enemy is tied up in my own’ and so even when they attack, malign, or belittle me I must learn to bear their wounds so we may both become whole
The Mystery of the Fatherless Father’s Day
As Trinity Sunday falls on Fathers Day we come to see that part of the mystery of the Godhead is that, despite difference of purpose, there is no hierarchy or rank of Person
No Guts, No Glory – Turning Disaster Into Destiny
Jesus takes the disaster of his betrayal by Judas and turns it into the glory of the cross. How can we, faced with our own betrayals and the betrayals of others, turn death into resurrection and hate into love?
Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
Always hope, always ask, always help – in this way miracles happen and the Church is strengthened.
Words, words, words! Eliza Doolittle and Doubting Thomas
When St Thomas makes his annual hesitant visit to our churches we easily quote the lie ‘seeing is believing’. In fact believing can only be based on ‘not seeing’ and choosing to life a life proclaiming ‘My Lord and my God’
Suffolk Vicar 