Purple Words on a Grey Background

At this point in the season of Advent, the figure of John The Baptist features. The Gospel readings for Advent 2 & 3 both feature him, a...

Sermon for St James the Apostle, 25 July 2024                Matthew 20.20–28 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with...

OK - I deliberately put it that way in a recent sermon to get people's attention. We have been looking at parables recently, which are o...

This was written to be used in an all-age service as figures of the wise men are placed into the crib scene, and then the gifts are placed b...

The following is an edited down version of the section in my MA dissertation on this week's reading from Luke's gospel. I had forgot...

Today's Gospel reading was the strange and disconcerting story of the man described as troubled with a legion of demons in Luke 8:26-39 ...

  12 1 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.  2 There they gave a dinn...

Written for our weekly Diocesan reflection video. You can watch it on Vimeo here Mark 3:20-35  (click here to read passage) Most of us have...

Wednesday in Holy Week: One of You Will Betray Me John 13:21-32  [English Standard Version] 21  After saying these things, Jesus was tro...

John 12:1-11   Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.  2 There they g...