The Difficulty Of Accepting Forgiveness
We know it can be hard to offer forgiveness, but is it not also difficult to accept forgiveness? In some ways, that is obvious, such as when I have done something I believe to be so terrible that I...
View ArticleTwo Contrasting Perspectives On Forgiveness
(Via ChurchLeaders.com) Volf’s experience of forgiveness is formed not only in the crucible of his brother’s unfortunate death at the hands of a negligent soldier, it also comes from his upbringing as...
View ArticleSermon: On The Dashing Of Babies Against Rocks
Again, blog posting has been light recently. One reason is alluded to in this week’s sermon. See the comments early on about my mother’s health, and you will know where most of my spare time has gone....
View ArticleSermon and Prayers: How God’s Grace Heals Our Mess
This week’s reflections are based on Genesis 21:8-21:
View ArticleFourth Sunday In Lent: Worship In the Wilderness – A sacrificial Journey
I’m back from my week off. This Sunday, the fourth in Lent, is also observed as Mothering Sunday, but the theme in our series is ‘A Sacrificial Journey’ and uses Isaiah’s passage about the Suffering...
View ArticleCarol Service Talk: God’s Aspirations For Jesus, Isaiah 9:2-7 (Advent 4 Year C)
There’s no script to follow the video this week as unusually for me I prepared this talk entirely in my head and delivered it extempore. You could always watch the video a second time!
View ArticleThe Jesus Manifesto, Luke 4:14-21 (Ordinary 3, Year C)
I’m continuing my practice of recording my sermon videos using minimal notes rather than a full script. So once more there is no complete text to follow the video. Feel free to watch the video a...
View ArticleLove Your – Enemies?? Luke 6:27-38 (Ordinary 7 Year C)
Apologies, but the out of focus problem is back and I didn’t have time to re-record.
View ArticleIt’s The King, Jim, But Not As We Know It, Luke 23:33-43 (Sunday Before...
Luke 23:33-43 It has become fashionable to refer to this Last Sunday Before Advent as the Feast Of Christ The King. But once of my minister friends said recently he wasn’t going to call today the...
View ArticleDiscipleship and the New Creation, John 1:29-42 (Ordinary 2 Epiphany 2 Year A)
John 1:29-42 I once said of John’s Gospel that John won’t settle for one meaning of a word when ten will do. It’s a Gospel packed with symbolism, even in the literal stories. And that’s true in our...
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