Precept and Practice – JULY 5 – Unconscious Influence
Human beings are unceasingly exerting unconscious influence upon one another. Insensibly to themselves, they are moulding one another’s character, conduct and destiny.
Category: Sermon
Precept and Practice – JULY 4 – Personal Influence
You drop a pebble into a still pool, and you see it form a circle, which gradually extends till it fades from your vision, but from your vision only. It still goes on widening, though you no longer see it.
Precept and Practice – JULY 3 – Influence
No act or thought of ours stands by itself. It is always related to something else.
Precept and Practice – JULY 2 – Atmosphere
None of us can live to himself. For evil or good, for condemnation or blessing, we must exercise a necessary influence over others.
Precept and Practice – JULY 1 – Silence
Bees will not work except in darkness, thought will not work except in silence, neither will virtue work except in secrecy
Hill Climbing for Beginners – A Sermon
The road ahead is rough not smooth.
But that is not what we are promised. There lie many trials, tribulations and fears ahead of us.
As Julian of Norwich recorded the words of Jesus in her Shewings, ‘He said not “Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased”; but he said, “Thou shalt not be overcome.”’
Swine-Fever – A Sermon
…having had the demoniac run towards him Jesus now sends him away with a new mission. No longer is he to be the one of whom his friends and family are frightened and perhaps even ashamed, but instead he is to:
‘Return home and tell how much God has done for you’.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 16 – Self-pity
Pity may rightfully be exercised in any direction save one: toward self.
The Mystery of the Fatherless Father’s Day – A Sermon
Proclaiming that the Holy Trinity is ‘Equal and Diverse’ demands that we be an equal and diverse church. This is as much a Creed as the lengthy doctrinal statement composed by St Athanasius which, as faithful members of this Church of England, we will (of course) read before we lay ourselves to rest this night on this Fatherless Father’s Day…
Terabithia or Bust! – A Sermon
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
