Category: Sermons

Forgiveness can help us to make sense of our past.

It enables us to release the things that hold us prisoner and lets us write a different future.

How do we invest well in the next generations?

Into our children’s lives, and the children in our church, and in grandchildren?

On Remembrance Sunday we recall those who went through the awfulness of war in years gone by, and pray for those caught up in it today.

How can we practise the wisdom of peace-making when there are so many conflicts around us?

What hope does Jesus bring?

How do we honour elderly parents at the same time as we ensure that we age well – flexible in outlook, gracious in judgment, loving to all?

We know that good friendships are not only part of an enjoyable life but are one of the factors in helping you live a longer life.

But true friendship demands vulnerability.

How do we keep developing this?

Humility is the key – it marks out God’s people as following Jesus. It can be the mark of our relationships together and can be the mark of church together.

The Christians that Peter wrote to were beginning to face the social stigma of being known as Jesus followers.

They are helped to see how to build resilience and how to resist the pressures they were facing, but also how the promise of God’s restoration could change everything.

These 3 Rs are still the way we can navigate the tough periods of our lives.

We are called to declare God’s goodness – in the darkness.

Holiness is designed to be lived out in the mess of normal relationships, not least our lives at home.

What did priests do?

What does it mean to be a priest for our families, our friends and colleagues?