We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
Jesus’ parables reminds us that God is indeed ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
There is no place too small or insignificant to be home to God’s reign.
Neither is there anywhere where the influence of the Gospel of love and inclusion cannot spread.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a place where people who seek truth and love will find great treasure.
At Epiphany we cannot all make offerings of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh but we can give our hearts and with them our treasure, our worship and our failings.
With a Song in my Heart – 40 Days of Sacred Songs Day 7 – Wednesday after 1st Sunday of Lent To Listen: Go Forth With God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWqdfp9uy50 Go forth with God! The day is now that thou must meet the test of youth, Salvation’s helm upon thy brow, Go girded with the living truth.… Continue reading With a Song in my Heart – Day 7
Don’t Look Up! God might be Working (Sermon at St John the Baptist, Felixstowe – 9 January 2022 -Epiphany 1) Text: 16I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and… Continue reading Don’t Look Up! (God might be Working)
To Infinity and Beyond Sermon at the wedding of Sara Wright and Johnathan Dotchin 15 May 2021 – St John the Baptist, Felixstowe Text: If you love someone you will be loyal to them no matter what the cost. You will always believe in them, always see the best in them; always stand your ground… Continue reading To Infinity and Beyond
Bitcoin Believers Words for the Third Sunday of Lent – 7 March 2021 – A cyber sermon from the Vicarage Text: Stop making my Father’s house a market-place! (John 2v16) God give you peace my Sisters and Brothers. When we first returned to England at the end of the year 2000 we lived in the… Continue reading Bitcoin Believers
Dawn seems to be approaching in this time of pandemic but we are left worn out and ‘thin’ full of nothingness. How are we to ever find fulfilment again?
Suffolk Vicar 