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!
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!
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.
Jesus reminds us again and again that only the little ones are welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Why do we find it so difficult to heed His call?
Suka uSatan! Sermon for 16th Sunday after Trinity – 15 September 2024 – St John the Baptist, Felixstowe Text: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. (Mark 8v35) God give you peace my… Continue reading A Sermon: Suka uSatan!
When we walk closely with Jesus we find that even the debris of our lives becomes a source of joy and hope.
John reminds us with his final few verses, in the culmination of his telling of the Good News, that the Gospel is not a case of ‘seeing is believing’ but, instead, in the words of our Beloved it is a case of ‘believing is not seeing’:
surrounded by the dead and in fear of being killed themselves that they heard the news of the hope that was born in a cave in Bethlehem and escaped from a tomb in Jerusalem.
This was not the only time since I have been in Holy Orders I have been threatened with a fire arm but it is the one when I prayed the deepest and hardest…
The church is called to be a ‘Son et Lumière’ presentation that lets the light of God’s love shine brightly and offer hope to a dark world.
Describing the gift of Christ at Christmas cannot be done by th use of one name alone.
We find in the manger a gift so large that it does indeed ‘hold the whole world in it’s hands’