‘Midnight Mass’
The service for ‘midnight mass’ is now available:
The service for ‘midnight mass’ is now available:
Joel 2:1-2,12-17 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s met people who’ve been damaged by low self-esteem. Sometimes we don’t need a lot of help to see ourselves was worthless and bad, and sometimes, regrettably, the church hasn’t always helped that. On Ash Wednesday, of all days, it’s not unreasonable for…
There’s an episode of Open All Hours, where Arkwright looks up to the sky, and remarks in a philosophical tone, “93 million miles from here to the sun”, and Granville, sweeping with a worn out brush, replies, “aye, and that’s about how many miles this brush has done”. I don’t know about you, but my…
Deuteronomy 15:7–11 Matthew 14:13–21 2 Corinthians 9:6–15 I didn’t get to where I am by not enjoying many good dinners. I once enjoyed a very good meal on the high table at Mansfield College Oxford, after preaching in the college chapel, but then I am biased in favour of Oxford. In an episode of Inspector…
Matthew 2:1-12 There will be no camels, because we’re going on horseback, at least for some of the way. And we won’t arrive there a few hours after everyone else. It will be weeks, perhaps, or months. We aren’t in a hurry. That isn’t the way we work; we are not Europeans. We will discuss…
I am taking as my text, Hebrews 10 v 23 and 24: “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds.” The lectionary reading for today includes our gospel reading from…
John 3:1-8 Michael Faraday had just invented the dynamo – the first means of generating electricity – and showed it to a distinctly unimpressed Queen Victoria, who asked him what use it was. He’s reputed to have replied, ‘what use is a baby?. Today we see why that was so wrong, as we’ve been enraptured…