A sermon preached for a harvest festival based on Genesis 41:14-36 and Luke 12:16-34. We are here today celebrating the harvest. To quote a hymn we’re not going to sing today, “All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin”. But is it? Does anyone know how successful or otherwise this year’s harvest has been? This harvest has been a particularly bad one. The … Continue reading All is safely gathered in?
As part of Methodism’s Bible Month, today we start exploring the Letter to the Philippians. The letter was essentially a thankyou letter that Paul and Timothy wrote for a financial gift that had been sent by the community that they had founded in the city on Paul’s second missionary journey. Clearly it was written centuries before it can have occurred to anyone that human activity … Continue reading Learning from a letter
A sermon preached on the weekend of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch exploring how we, as Christians, should react to the dramatic decline in biodiversity over recent years. Continue reading Does our heavenly father really feed the birds of the air?
A sermon and prayer based on Luke 4:1-13. Continue reading Thinking about the temptations of Jesus in the context of climate change.
A sermon based on Micah 4:1-5 preached shortly after I returned from participating in the public demonstration at the CoP 26 meeting in Glasgow. Continue reading Prophecy and protest
A sermon based on Mark 14:32-46 and my experience of waiting with an XR protester for her to be arrested. Continue reading Waiting for arrest
A sermon based on Psalm 137, exploring how this psalm of lament might help with the grief that many of us feel for our planet. Continue reading Helping our community grieve for the planet
A sermon on Luke 19:37-48 exploring the relationship between the church and political protest. Continue reading The church and political protest
