Sermons And Gubbins

  Social Media Influenza   Reality is virtual. The physical is cursed. I want my money back, can I please be reimbursed? Humanity’s a mess and it cannot get much worse;  Everything is  better  in the  meta verse. Put it up on Facebook for  likes  and  shares; Solving all our problems with ten thousand thoughts and prayers. X is a dumpster-fire but no one  really  cares; Gotta get a retweet from some nazi billionaires. Tagging you all here as my 54 best mates. If you each tag 20 friends then our reach now will be  great! A ‘like’ is pretty good, but what’s better is the hate; this is gonna make the most fucking  A  click-bait! Oh wow, I love your image it's so totally my vibe!  I’ve got to take a photo, as my words could not describe. I’ll share it to my Insta and I’ll hashtag it #mytribe. I hope you love mine too?  Like  and  subscribe ! Have you seen this? It's so  hawt , it’s the newest, lat...

  This sermon was given at our Sunday morning service on 15th February 2026. The readings were Exodus 24:12-18 and Matthew 17:1-9 . I hope you enjoy reading it!   I’ve been thinking a lot – for various reasons recently – about Change. I swear I saw some of you almost shudder there. I think, deep down, none of us really like change. The American journalist, Sydney J Harris, once wrote: “ our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better ”. I can very much relate to that, can you? Wouldn’t it be excellent if things were different? Not the things I like, though…   The master of self-change and reinvention, David Bowie This morning’s readings are all about change. They’re probably the readings about change in the New Testament. This morning, we heard the story of the Transfiguration . And the story of the Transfiguration is a pivotal point in God’s story of how the world changes. ...

This poem was written for our February monthly church poetry group. The theme was solitude. A Moment to Myself  A moment to myself  To improve my mental health  And focus on immaterial wealth  And concentrate on breathing. A moment on my own  To contemplate how much I've grown  And get myself into the zone  And feel distractions leaving. A moment spent in prayer  In calm and in self-care  To heal and to repair  And remind me of believing.

This sermon was written for our Sunday morning service on 28th December; the festival of the Holy Innocents . The Gospel was Matthew 2:13-18 . I hope you enjoy reading it! May I start this morning by wishing you all a very happy Christmas!   After this morning’s Gospel reading, that sounds a bit incongruous, doesn’t it? Herod learnt that he had been tricked by the wise men, and so set out and killed all the infants in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or younger. Happy Christmas everyone! What a way to begin our Christmas season – mass murder and infanticide.   This part of the Christmas story is one we often gloss over. It does not – for obvious reasons – make it into our nativity plays. It does not feature in our crib scenes. It does not align with the message of peace and joy and hope that comes with the birth of the Christ child. As such, it may not be one that you’re that familiar with. Let me provide a synopsis:   The magi have visited He...