Sermons And Gubbins

This sermon was preached at our Sunday morning service on 27th July. The Gospel was Luke 11:1-13 . I hope you enjoy reading it!   This morning, I want to talk about prayer. In our gospel this morning, Jesus’ disciples heard him praying and they wanted in. “Teach us how to pray”, they asked, and Jesus gave them a formula; a very famous formula, but one that seems a bit different from the Lord’s Prayer we pray today. It’s the TL;DR version, if you like (“too long; didn’t read”).   <at some point during the above, Miriam, my daughter, interrupts to ask for promised sweets>   Oh, I’m sorry Miriam, I did say you could have some sweets during my talk – here you go. You go back and sit down now.   <passes Miriam a sweet>   Absolutely shameless that child!   Anyway, Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord’s Prayer (though not completely as we know it). Luke’s version goes like this:   “ Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom c...

This poem was created for our July church poetry group. The theme was 'music', and so I had the daft idea to write it as a rap... if you know my accent, you would know this isn't something necessarily in my wheel house! I hope you enjoy reading it though - if you catch me in person, you might actually be able to persuade me to read it out! Through the Music Mu sic is what I’m always thinking of. Music; they say it’s the food of love.     And love is God  from heav'n above: The  C omposer, the Song and the Holy Dove. Music is life, this is how we use it; God is creating me through the music. God is creating me through the music.     God is creating me through the music. Music.     It'll feed my soul,     So give me Rock and give me Roll.     Yeah gimme rhyme and give me rhythm;  Gimme a big bit o' bass go with 'em.     Gimme Jazz and give me Funk.     Mash me up Mozart and Punk. Give me synthesised ...

This sermon was given at our Sunday morning service on 29th June - St Peter & St Paul's Day. The Gospel was Matthew 16:13-19 . I hope you enjoy reading it.   In our gospel today, Jesus asks his disciples a question. Well, he asks them two questions actually, but I’ll stick to the first one for now. Jesus takes his disciples out of of their Jewish homeland, and into  Caesarea Philippi  – a place named after the Roman governor of the area, where the Greek god Pan was worshipped prominently, and there was a temple dedicated to Caesar himself, and Jesus asks his disciples what people are saying about him. “Who do they say I am?”, he asks, surrounded by all the trappings of empire, and pagan gods. Who does the world, scrabbling to hold onto the power it has, fighting political and religious wars, say Jesus is?     Today, the Church celebrates the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. We call today Petertide.  Two little dickie birds, sitting on a wall....