Sermons
Our weekly sermons
Extreme hospitality. An example from country France in World War 2.
Luke 14:13-14 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. Hospitality is about being welcomed as you are. It’s about...
Sr Lucy’s 2 and 5 Daily Practice for a Deeper Life.
Sr Lucy Tierney, author of Inner Invitations 2023, has been a great blessing to me over the last 25 years. At a recent training day I attended on-line, she repeated the blessings of her daily practice of 2 + 5. Two minutes in the morning. How am I? This is simply...
Asking good questions – and then letting the God answers reveal themselves.
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. Hebrews 12:1-2. Jesus has done the long race of life before us. Through the shame of the cross, he has turned everything upside down. In losing, we...
When you might have to let go ‘being a servant’.
Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them...
Ecclesiastes: cynical, jaded lifestyle, from too much of everything.
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 2:14 It’s fascinating that this book is part of our sacred scripture. It’s the bored dissatisfaction of a rich, successful king who has a...
Prayer – as natural as breathing.
Prayer – as natural as breathing. We are God’s children, so talking with God and being with God is just the way we live. Do you find that you naturally are talking to God about some things, or asking for help at times during the day? Jesus is a prayer word, not a...
Keeping your roots in good soil – daily contact with God’s life-giving Word.
At the big service on Sunday (baptisms, first communions, lots of visiting families with younger children) we had a run-away plant that wanted to go and have lots of wonderful experiences, rather than be stuck in the same, boring ground. Of course the children could...
Good Samaritan -a Killer Story
…when he saw him, the Samaritan took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. Luke 10:33-34 Jesus could have made the victim a despised Samaritan,...
Getting a new perspective that helps you do better. Stalingrad Madonna.
For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.” Isaiah 66:12 The people were shattered after the destruction of the temple...
