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.
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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.)
Anna and the Royal Hospital School – A Sermon
Anna and the Royal Hospital School Sermon for Weekday Worship in the School Chapel – Thursday 13 March 2025 One day I was stopped by Sunday School Teacher. Sunday School Teacher asked me, no, told me, to instruct Anna to behave herself in the class. I asked what it was that Anna had done or had not… Continue reading Anna and the Royal Hospital School – A Sermon
Should I Stay or Should I Go – A Sermon
We are not called to live in some sort of Holy Huddle protected from all the woes of this wicked world but instead journey with Jesus to Gethsemane, to Calvary, and to the hope brought with the Empty Tomb of Easter Day.
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: Batman & the Quest for the Lost Children
During ‘Twixtmas, like Mary & Joseph having been busy about the Festival we may have lost the Child at the centre of it. How will we use the rest of the season to find the One who came to find us?
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: The ‘Last’ Disciple….?
When we cry out to God and God replies by using our name our healing begins. But will we continue to follow along the way?
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: 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.
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