Today it’s not the clergy preaching to the choir, but the choir preaching to you…. But even though I’m wearing my choir robes, the metaphorical hat I’m wearing as I speak to you this morning is that of a diplomat. (At this point I should issue the standard declaimer: the reflections that follow are made very much in my personal, not my…
Anglican worship in Geneva, Switzerland
Holy Trinity Church
Anglican worship in Geneva Sermons on Isaiah
Title: The message of hope to the poor. I would like to kindly invite you to forget who you are for a moment. Please, forget that you are living in Geneva! In silence, please think what you can do if you have to live with no more than CH 85 per month. Now I would like to ask you the same question…
Safeguarding Sunday Some of you may have wondered why safeguarding is important and why we are putting such a focus on ensuring that those involved in leadership and helping roles in the church have received appropriate safeguarding training. If that was the case, then I hope what Carol and Rawsette have said today will have shown you just why it is so…
Christ is risen – we are set free! Christ is risen – we are set free! Today is our liberation day when God raises Jesus to life and in so doing, calls us to new life in Him. But from what and how are we set free? What does it mean? Each of us here will have had some experience of being…
Many years ago when my children were young, we used to go for family riding lessons and hikes together. The stable in Leeds in the UK was owned by a ferocious lady who ran it extremely well but on a strictly ‘non nonsense’ basis. One Saturday, I realised that we due to go on a long hike and strong rain was forecast…
Taking another road Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany which in the Eastern Church focuses on the baptism of Christ whereas in the West, it focuses mainly but not exclusively on the visit of the Magi to Jesus and the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. It also brings the traditional twelve days of Christmas celebrations to an end…
One more day until 2024! I saw the year 2023 arrive in London, and I saw the year 2022 arrive in Moscow, and for 2024 I’m going to be in Geneva! A place I never really thought I’d ever visit. God moves in mysterious ways! On this last day of the year, I think it’s right for us to give some consideration…
One of my favourite memories of Christmas Eve when I was a child, was polishing silver. It may seem an implausible pleasure but it is true. My mother had about six silver bowls, some small and others medium-sized which were carefully stored away during the year. On Christmas Eve, they would be ceremoniously brought out of the cupboard, wrapped in last year’s…
Ready, Steady, Wait! Today marks a new beginning in many ways. It’s Advent Sunday – the first day of the Church’s new liturgical year. You’ll have noticed that the colours of the vestments that Glen and I are wearing have changed – they are now purple as is the altar frontal for the season of Advent. In our Lectionary (Bible) readings in…
Render unto Caesar ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s’ (Matthew 22.22). These words of Jesus as recorded in Matthew’s gospel, have sparked lively and often controversial debate between church and state ever since. They’re often taken to mean that Christians should observe a firm division between their life of…