Amidst all the chaos…this week’s sermon

It’s time for another sermon…

This one was written for my interview on Thursday, or at least the basis of it was (preaching a sermon at the start of an interview is definitely a first for me, and I was more nervous than i have ever been at the start of a sermon! And during!)

I fleshed [...]

Man, there are some weirdos around

Just been reading some comments on posts at New Kid Deep Stuff, where all my sermons – or most of them – end up and its amazing how people feel the need to complicate religion by making up stuff to add to it! There’s only a few comments like that on the blog, this is [...]

A sermon for Pentecost

The sermon I will be preaching in about forty minutes! As always click on the Bible links for the full texts and on [more] for the complete sermon held at New Kid Deep Stuff

Year A Pentecost (2008) RCL Principal

John 20.19-23
1 Corinthians 12.3b-13
Acts 2.1-21
Jesus Loves the Church
I recently found myself in a [...]

This month’s editorial

I seem to have got out of the habit of posting my ‘letter from the Vicar’ on my blog. As it sometimes gives something to comment on, here’s this month’s!
There are lots of funny (both in the amusing and peculiar sense) ideas of what or who the Holy Spirit – or Holy Ghost in older [...]

Another sermon, perhaps I’m making up for lost blogging!?!

Last Sunday of the Easter Season…
Time for another sermon, this one is a rewrite of a previously preached sermon (something I rarely do, but i wanted to ground the opening in my own experience!). In its preached form is contained a fair amount of ad lib around the script – particularly around the fact [...]

Six down, none to go

Just finished my final Annual Meeting and am feeling relieved and happy – all of them have been mainly positive, and only one had me feeling a little as though some members of the church were looking more backward than forward.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it now, and I will doubtless say it [...]

Belated, but here at last

Thinking about this week’s sermon, I looked back over last week’s (so I don’t repeat myself too much!) and as I’ve not posted a sermon for a few weeks here it is….
Matthew 7.7-12John 14.8-14 Meeting God
Where do you find God?
Where in the last week, or month, have you found God? Or felt [...]

Movie watching with a point

Or without a point, as in last night.
I stayed up late to watch Die Hard 4 last night. I really enjoyed it, but it made me ask some questions as to why many people ‘buy into’ the idea that violence can offer some form of redemption or hope. But maybe more of that [...]

Church – business or pleasure?

There’s some interesting (and sometimes frustrating) discussions going on at the moment in our Team. We are a group of thirteen parishes which some months back lost our ‘Team Rector’ due to his having to resign through illness. So we are in the process of seeking to make an appointment to what is, [...]

Back to blog talkers

I’ve not done a blog talkers for far too long, though I always look over the questions I’ve not really engaged with them, but its time to get back into the swing of things, as I seem to be getting sorted generally at the moment!
So here is blog talkers number 68.
Time for another writing prompt. [...]