Stick or Twist (aka Turn or Burn) – A Sermon
How to Repent:
1. Stop doing the bad stuff.
2. Start doing the good stuff.
3. Give away the fruit of our penitence.
(We do not join the ‘God Squad’ for our benefit alone.)
Category: Growing in God
Wonder Working Waiters – A Sermon
Jesus… doesn’t choose the powerful and capable to manifest his glory. He chooses corrupt tax collectors, penitent publicans, simple soldiers who are ‘only following orders’, women about whom your mother warned you, failed fisherfolk, and even us to be the workers of miracles that will transform a worn-out world into a feast overflowing with the finest of wine.
A Sermon for Christmas Night: The Year in Review
May we, having witnessed the birth of the Babe of Bethlehem in our carols and our worship this night, become proclaimers of those same words to all those we meet this Christmas.
‘Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you;
he is the Messiah, the Lord.
Fear Not!’
A Sermon: Apocalypse When?
if we knew ‘the hour and the day’ of our Lord’s return we might be tempted to behave a little more like Christ as the Day approaches. And what kind of fair-weather (or more correctly Apocalyptic-weather) disciples would that prove us to be?
A Sermon: Dying to Live
The only power struggle in the Church of Christ should be that of competing for the last place!
True greatness is not found in ruling.
True greatness consists in serving!
A Sermon: Suka uSatan!
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!
A Sermon: Good Moaning! Jesus Goes to Nouvion
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.
A Sermon: Eat Me – Feasting with Jesus
Communion is not about bread and wine but about being transformed into the Body of Christ
Character and Conduct – 5 August – Friendship
If I could choose a young man’s companions, some should be weaker than himself, that he might learn patience and charity; many should be as nearly as possible his equals, that he might have the full freedom of friendship; but most should be stronger than he was, that he might for ever be thinking humbly of himself and be tempted to higher things.
Character and Conduct – 4 August – Friendship
Note what the great men admired – they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Suffolk Vicar 