Sermons

Are you willing to look beyond ‘people like me’ and befriend your neighbour, whomever they may be?

James puts it like this: do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

The gift of God’s own Son takes a lifetime to unwrap, but it’s never too early to start.

Instead of repeating the Old Testament’s laws about tithing, Paul replaces the entire system with one word: generosity.

It wasn’t the act of going that demonstrated the Samaritan leper’s faith, it was the act of coming back - coming back to Jesus to say thank you.

Martin Luther King said the question is not, ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ but, ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

Baptism is all about God saying, ‘Welcome, welcome home.’ It’s a symbol for the turning back to God that we all have to do, every day.

Those angelic words are a rather good summary of the message of Christmas: Glory to God and on earth peace. And if I were forced to distil it even further, I would say the message of Christmas is this: peace on earth.

Never judge others, and never judge yourself: the job of judging belongs to Jesus. He frees us of that terrible responsibility.

Being Jesus’ witness means being filled with the Holy Spirit to be bold, inspired, relevant and interesting.