Where should we go looking for God? Advent means the “coming” or arrival of God. It’s a season of fasting … More
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In over our heads
Speaking at St Polycarp’s, February 23 2025. Acts 14:1-20 – Paul and Barnabas in Iconium and Lystra
Surrender
“One of the special things about knowing death is close is that is easier to re-centre life on things other … More
(Week 6) Sword of the Spirit
A way not to lose sight of the sweet, fierce pleasure of knowing Jesus
“It was not done in a corner!”
“In nature I see a transiency, the withering of plants and the changing seasons, but also a constancy, the indifference of all that will stay when I am gone. This is particularly acute when I gaze at the stars with the awareness that when the light of the stars as they are now has reached Earth, I won’t be here to view them.”
Joy is made complete
The truth that the gospel proclaims is the truth by which my joy is made complete
Wash One Another’s Feet
From John 13.
He was both King and servant – and neither of those titles are reserved to working hours. Love is a full-time occupation, after all. Love in the big things, God on the Earth and God on the cross, but also love in the washing of feet in the basin.
Disciples Make Decisions
From John 6. In which Jesus’ teaching sounds an awful lot like an invitation to cannibalism as far as his disciples are concerned.
Duty + Self Forgetfulness
From Luke 17. May we serve in such a way that we reach the evening and delight in being a part of our master’s household, however menial and tiring the work, rather than bemoaning the aching of our feet after a long day.
Prayer + Self Forgetfulness
From Luke 18. Prayer is about becoming nothing so that God may be everything. That when we decrease, Jesus may increase in our place. We are to be able to say, to use a phrase Miriam Swaffield once used, ‘when you see me, see the one who made me’.
Jesus the Feminist
The Gospels show that Jesus invites, restores and saves women. The only qualification to be a disciple, or one who teaches, leads, heals, serves or prophecies in the name of Jesus is a love of God. And gender could never disqualify anyone from that.
Growing Better not Bitter
A reflection on the story behind the hymn ‘It is Well with my Soul’ and Luke 8. Learning to grow in faith and be transformed by God.
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