Palm Sunday  The journey down and the journey up.

Palm Sunday The journey down and the journey up.

Christ humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross.  Traditional part of the Lent liturgy, sung as a response to the second reading. Simple words, but full of a different sort of power to what we are usually attracted to. Philippians talks...
Lent 5B  Dying to be fruitful

Lent 5B Dying to be fruitful

Lent 5B 2021  John 12: 20-33 We want to see Jesus. Hopefully that happens every time you come here to worship. Hopefully you see, hear and nourish yourself on something of Jesus. In our text this request comes from Greek speakers, representing the others, the...
Jesus cleanses the temple

Jesus cleanses the temple

Three things today:  we recognise and act on catastrophes, we don’t recognise and act on the things that change slowly. Prophetic actions. Wait and see. Our brains are wired to recognise and deal with catastrophes, better than with slow, incremental change. Something...
We are Trinity – Strong Together

We are Trinity – Strong Together

Strong: None of us like coming across as weak, no matter whatever age we are. And you know how some people latch on to any sign of weakness in another. Perhaps part of your story has been learning to deal with such people and such situations much better than you once...
Epiphany 2 B

Epiphany 2 B

This year is mainly from the Gospel of Mark, but in a 3 year cycle of gospel reading, with 4 gospels readings from John get inserted, as we have today. On Christmas Day we went for the big view, as read the start of the Gospel of John. In the beginning was the Word,...
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