Uncommon Prayers

At forty-seven years old I am no longer young. The 'warrior phase' is well and truly behind me. The future stretches out far more bl...

Texts:  Isaiah 60.1-6; Psalm 72. 1-7; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2. 1-12  . . .  were we led all that way for Birth or Death?  There was a...

Ephesians 6.10-20; John 6.56-69 ‘Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against th...

Ephesians 1.3-14; Mark 6.14-29 In the story we heard this morning from Mark’s gospel, we learn that John the Baptist was imprisoned an...

Texts:   1 John 3.16-24; John 10.11-18 How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country: Death pursues the man who flees,...

Texts: Acts 3.12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3.1-7; Luke 24.36-48  When, in Luke’s version of the story, the risen Jesus first appears to his c...

Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22.23-31; Romans 4. 13-25; Mark 8.31-38  In the land of Israel and of Palestine there is a war. Despite the...