Sermons

When Jesus cleared out the animals from the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables, he was angry (John 2:13-22). The same Jesus is also the Lamb of God, who quietly chose to go to the cross, in order to take away the sin of the world. There’s that contrast:...

Jesus then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again…. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. (Mark...

Baptism joins us to Jesus. The washing clean with water (or being immersed in water) is not just symbolic of removing sins, it actually does that. It joins us to Christ, so that his dying on the cross removes our sin, and his resurrection becomes our new life. Baptism...

I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. ! Corinthians 9:22,23. Trying to please everybody all the time is a recipe for rapid burnout, crippling...

At the time of St Paul, you bought your meat from the market place, but it had all been slaughtered at a nearby temple by a priest who had dedicated that meat to his god. For most Christians in Corinth, they knew that those ‘gods’ were not real like the Christian God...

‘All things are lawful for me’, but I won’t be enslaved by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12. Some of the Corinthains, who had the Greek view that the body was not important, took the message about freedom in Christ in the wrong way. They used Christian freedom as an...

How do you feel about your body? God very carefully designed us to have bodies, rather than have us just some sort of disembodied spiritual being.  Some of the pagans who became Christians at Corinth took the message of Christian freedom the wrong way. They were using...

“Where is the child who was born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.’ Matthew 2:2 This Epiphany account of the wise men faithfully seeking out the Christ child is rich with contradictions. The powerful and supposedly...

John the Baptist is one of the great Advent people from Scripture. In the Gospel of John 1:6-8 and 19-28 John the Baptist comes across as having a very strong sense of self, and his life calling. He is to point the way to Jesus. When the religious leaders grilled him...