An Advent Prayer
Ian B. For our church Advent booklet this year, members of the congregation were asked to reflect on Psalm 20.1-5, which is perhaps quite a surprising prayer, and then to offer a…
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Talk to God, not just about God
This (long) post is largely the text of my sermon yesterday at The Good Shepherd, Lee, when we were concluding a short series on the book of Job as well…
Loss, Lament & Hope
Here’s the (approximate!) text of my twin short sermons at The Good Shepherd, Lee on 30 June 2024. Or you can listen here to the Lament and the Hope. Lamentations…
The Good Shepherd
Last Sunday I was privileged to preach for the first time at the church where our family has recently settled, The Church of the Good Shepherd with St. Peter, Lee.…
Where Jake’s story leads…
Jake’s story was the introduction to this talk at Forest Hill Community Church where I talked (for about 25 minutes) about the Bible’s attitude to vulnerable children and how seeing…
Encourage One Another
We’ve come to the final chapter of 1 Thessalonians, and the subject matter of the first section looks similar to last part of chapter 4, which we looked at last…
Peter – so right but so wrong!
I was invited to speak at Forest Hill Community Church today, on an episode of my choice from the life of Peter. I chose Peter’s confession of Jesus as the…
Why this waste? What about the poor?
We’re in Holy Week, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter. It’s a busy time for some of us I expect, with the different routine of school holidays. It was…
Hearing the word of God
This week, instead of my usual podcasts, I listened to the Bible on my headphones while I was out and about. It was something new for me, and I’ll come…
St. Paul on Mothers’ Day
There are some surprising metaphors used by Paul in chapter 2 of 1 Thessalonians, which seem especially appropriate as we approach Mothers’ Day, or Mothering Sunday as it was traditionally…