Loving God and our neighbour.
One of the things I remember as a child is a saying my father impressed upon me. He said, ‘Your word is your promise’. If I say I’ll do something, the [...]
The world belongs to God
I have often welcomed January as a time to plan for the coming year. It’s usually quieter with no meetings and many people away on holiday. But this y [...]
The reign of Christ
This Sunday marks the end of our Christian Year, but we don’t have parties as we do on New Year’s Eve, in fact it goes past hardly noticed. After all [...]
Love – Gift and Choice
This Sunday we will celebrate and give thanks to God for the people we are closest to in our lives, our partners. I have always been struck by that pa [...]
God seeks the lost
Luke’s story of the prodigal son, coming as it does in the very middle of the Gospel, and at the end of three stories about loss, is central to the me [...]
Life-giving Sabbath
It’s a long time since I thought of Jesus as the old children’s hymn puts it: Gentle Jesus meek and mild, look upon a little child pity my simplicity, [...]
Jesus notices people – and reaches out to help
Its so easy to miss things, and I don’t just mean missing your car keys and looking everywhere for them. I mean not noticing people, or not taking not [...]