Category: Sermon

‘I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?’ In our Gospel from John we have the commandment to love each other.

This is vision of a future where God embraces the eunuch and the foreigner and gives them a place within his house – a place to abide.

One of the little angels at my home church in Bury came up with these questions for her Sunday School…

As one preacher puts it, the resurrection ‘is the testimony of God about Jesus Christ…it’s God’s Amen to the life of his Son Jesus Christ.’

Jeremiah has a reputation for being a miserable so-and-so. He isn’t often known for bringing for bringing hope and comfort.

Happy Mothering Sunday. Take a look around. Each of us gathered here by Jesus to see and discover others who are, or will be, family with us.

He dazzles in his white T-shirt with two mortals who are now residents of heaven. And a voice from heaven says: “This is my Son, the Beloved”

The encounter of Jesus with Simeon and Anna is one such moment. Our author is Luke, the master storyteller, and he’s setting his stall out.

The wise men also teach us that being a seeker is active not passive. It doesn’t just happen while we twiddle our thumbs doing nothing.

This Christmas may you unwrap hope and discover the presence of God. Look in the ordinary places. You’ll be surprised.

We’re all meant to be mothers of God. What good’s it to me if this eternal birth of the Son takes place unceasingly but doesn’t within myself

What sort of witness must I have been for Jesus? Not a very good one. Let’s pray, especially at Christmas time, that we are not afraid to speak and act in ways that show we believe that, in that birth in Bethlehem, the Saviour of the World was born.

Along with our friends from Strictly, what journey are you taking? What do you find along the way that helps you create the road as you go?

Let’s think too of our own lost loved ones. Some old and full of years. Others whose time was cut-short. Because we will remember them.

On this Bible Sunday, all these ancient and modern thoughts of remembering and reverence, of re-building, repair and restoration…