1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; Psalm 20; 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 I am currently carrying a sport-related injury. Some of you know that, others are just hearing about it now. Instead of running…
1 Samuel 8:4-20; Psalm 138 I am not a parent. This news is not a surprise to you since those of you who know me know that I have never been…
1 Samuel 3:1-10; Mark 2:23-3:6 With a new season comes a new green shirt and a new emphasis. Today, and through the following months in green and ordinary time I…
Isaiah 6:1-8; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17 I don’t know about you, but for me the Doctrine of the Trinity seems like a mixed blessing. It’s one of the big-ticket items…
Looking at things in three-shape is not always helpful when thinking about God as Trinity. A clover is still a clover if it has four leaves or two, it’s just…
Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:22-27; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 At one of my previous congregations the church council and I engaged with a period of discernment: we took time at meetings and…
Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:25-31, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8 From Acts 8 we read this morning about how Philip was sent by God to a wilderness road where he met…
Acts 4:5-12; Psalm 23; 1 John 3:16-24 Our history story begins today, as it does every Sunday between Easter and Pentecost, in The Acts of The Apostles, or as J.B.…
Acts 3:12-19; 1 John 3:1-7; Luke 24:36b-48 Today’s reading from Acts puts us straight into action with the first generation of Christians. We listen along as Peter speaks to a…
Acts 4:32-35; John 20:19-31 In previous sermons and conversations around various tables with you I have told you that during my career as a teacher in England I worked with…