From Nativity to Pietà – A Sermon
Jesus is our Midwife and like a mother looks on us every day with love.
Jesus, with His own body, defeats the power of death and sin and bears us all into the promise of the Life after Life.
Category: Religious Life
A Sermon: Empty Handed Helpers
We cannot hold on to the blessings of Christ if our hands are wrapped around something, anything, else.
We will not enter into the joy of our Father if we continue to seek fulfilment in the things of this world.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 8
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!
‘Sine Proprio’ – A Sermon
To live ‘Sine Proprio’ without possessions is about more than the ‘stuff’ withe which we surround our lives. It is a call to ‘Let Go and Let God’. Only as we do this can life be re-born.
Full of Emptiness – A Sermon
If we hold on to what we have we find we are holding on to emptiness….
But if we let go of our emptiness God works miracles!
God works best and God’s love is shown at its best when God has nothing at all to with which to work.
Always
The point of prayer is not the sort or type of prayer.
The point of prayer is the fact of prayer. God does not measure our prayers by their wordiness, orthodoxy or chance of success but simply by them being made
With a Song in my Heart – Day 30
If we are not careful our journey of faith can be about routine instead of following the call of God, ritual instead of action. Each of us needs to learn that we are called by God not so that we might be comfortable but so that we may go and proclaim the love shown to us by God in word and deed to others
With a Song in my Heart – Day 14
Because faith is such a personal and intimate experience and we cherish our own ways of worship it is all to easy to belittle the worship of others. We are required to be humble and diligent in prayer rather than ‘holier than thou’
Do I Aftu?
Do I Aftu? Words for the Sixth Sunday of Easter – 9 May 2021 – A cyber sermon from the Vicarage Text: ‘If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11I have said these things to you so that my… Continue reading Do I Aftu?
Keeping Schtum
Sometimes we need to keep quiet so that we can hear better and act louder
Suffolk Vicar 