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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…
We have now lit the final advent candle, and I believe we can say “we are now enlightened!” This final candle is the one for Mary. So who can remember the meaning of the first candle? First candle for the Patriarchs – people like Abraham who heard the call of God and followed him, not knowing where God would lead them or…
One more week to go! And so we have the third Sunday in Advent, when we remember John the Baptist by lighting the third candle. John the Baptist does three things: he puts himself down to raise Jesus up. He gives us evidence. He cautions us to not get lazy. He raises Jesus up. He gives us evidence. He cautions us to…
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…
Energy One of our most enduring hymns which has survived and indeed flourished since it was first written by Isaac Watts in the early 18th century is ‘Jesus shall reign where’er the sun’. The first verse goes as follows: ‘Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and…
Today we are in the first stages of our Lenten journey which began with Ash Wednesday last week and the challenges begin in earnest. For as we encounter the temptations faced first by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and then by Jesus in the desert, we too are called today to think about the choices that we make. How…
Glimpsing Glory We are about to start the holy season of Lent which begins with Ash Wednesday next week. It is a solemn time and one which we are encouraged by the church to observe faithfully and with rigour. I’ll be speaking later in this sermon about ways in which we may prepare to do this. But today, just before Lent begins,…
The Wedding at Cana January can be a grim month, particularly here in Northern Europe. All the joys and excitements of Christmas are over; the festive food and wine finished and in some cases, the penitential diets begun; we realise we’ve probably overspent in our desire to celebrate well and offer gifts to loved ones; and to cap it all, the sky…