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Bread of Eternal Life: Sermon Preached on 18th August 2024 (Twelfth Sunday After Trinity)

Those who eat Jesus’ flesh will have eternal life? Christianity is a weird faith. That’s what’s so good about it. Continue reading

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Wilderness and the Garden: Sermon Preached on 31st March 2024 (Easter Day)

Since the invasion of Ukraine, we have entered a geopolitical wilderness. Resurrection only follows the wilderness in the story of Jesus. Continue reading

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Reflection on ‘New Life’ for Holy Week: Tuesday 26th March 2024

When we die, much dies with us. Some will inevitably be good, but much that hinders us from entering eternal life will also die. Continue reading

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Reflection on ‘Suffering’ for Holy Week: Monday 25th March 2024

A universe without suffering means God controlling us like robots. We are rightly horrified by earthly fathers who control their children like that. Continue reading

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The Glory to be Revealed: Sermon Preached on 23nd July 2023 (7th Sunday After Trinity)

The beauty of nature and art can overwhelm us: does this indicate we’re made for more than this world? Continue reading

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Christianity is Strange (Easter Day 2023)

The Resurrection could be a fiction by people in denial: but then we’d expect more consistency, not the Gospels’ authenticity of roughness Continue reading

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Heaven in Our Hearts: Sermon Preached at St John’s Devizes, Sunday 30th October 2022 (Commemoration of the Departed for All Souls’)

Resurrection is not nostalgia nor wishful thinking but an awareness that our lives are but one element of a reality that stretches beyond sensory perception Continue reading

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Accepting Our Limits: Sermon Preached on 23rd October 2022 (The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity)

In Autumn’s transience, beauties emerge and vanish again in a few days. Our life is thus. The present moment is all we have. Death is part of life. Continue reading

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Worthless Slaves?: Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Worton, Sunday 2nd October 2022 (Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity)

Sometimes the Church can lose you faith; but even the tiniest bit of it can change the world Continue reading

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A Queen and A Poor Sinner: Sermon Preached in St Peter’s, Poulshot, Sunday 11th September 2022 (The Period of Mourning for the Death of Queen Elizabeth II)

Much is being said about Elizabeth the Queen, but little about Elizabeth the Christian. She believed in Christ’s promises of eternal life. Continue reading

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