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.
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.
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’ (John the Baptist)
When we learn to follow the first follower of Jesus we discover that the Christian life is about learning to grow smaller.
Suka uSatan! Sermon for 16th Sunday after Trinity – 15 September 2024 – St John the Baptist, Felixstowe Text: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. (Mark 8v35) God give you peace my… Continue reading A Sermon: Suka uSatan!
Sometimes, even though we think we have all the answers, it is the foreigners and the despised and rejected who show us how to believe and behave.
Communion is not about bread and wine but about being transformed into the Body of Christ
‘QUENCH not the smoking flax’ – to which I add, ‘Never give unnecessary pain.’ The cricket is not the nightingale; why tell him so?
A MAN who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
There are germs of moral health or disease continually passing from us and infecting for good or ill those about us.
Character and Conduct – 28 July – Manners THERE are many tests by which a gentleman may be known:- but there is one that never fails – How does he exercise power over those subordinate to him? How does he conduct himself towards women and children?… He who bullies those who are not in a position to resist,… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 28 July – Manners