Category: Sermon

We don’t know the significance of interruptions. But we need to allow them to happen. For our story to be intertwined with someone else’s.

Maybe the lesson of the mustard seed is that the kingdom of heaven is present around us whenever humanity and nature work together.

So, back to that question. If you hear God walking nearby today and God asks you: “Where are you?” what will your answer be?

You’ve probably heard the old joke about the Vicar who was convinced one of his parishioners had stolen his bicycle….

Do we live according to that boiled down verse: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that each of us might have eternal life?

‘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.