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…
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
Helping God Help us Sermon for Easter 6 – Sunday 25 May 2025 – All Saints, Kesgrave Text: When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, ‘Do you want to get well?’ (John 5v6) God give you peace my sisters and brothers. The Drowning… Continue reading Helping God Help us – A Sermon
Can we care even for those who have been to us as Judas was to Jesus…
…But if I can’t forgive those who betray me how can I expect forgiveness from God?
I’ve never understood the saying ‘as miserable as sin’. Personally I find sin, for the most part, quite enjoyable, else why would we persist in it. It’s what happens after sin, after hearing but not listening, that brings the pain.
There are a great many people in the world whose first and last thought in life is of what is due to them…..
Within, in the secret soul, carefully hidden from men – what do you keep which weigh down your activity for God, which checks your feet when you wish to help mankind as Jesus helped them? Small and petty jealousies which gnaw away your high endeavour, which eat the heart out of your ideals and make mean your imagination; dog-faced memories of injuries done to you… Fling them off the shoulders of your life; fling them off your heart.
Believing is not about seeing things…
Believing is about us, you and I, kneeling in front of the risen wounded Christ. It is about being brave enough to know that the next words we will say, and the words by which we will lead our lives, are these and these alone. ‘My Lord and my God!’
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.
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.)
