Bringing the roof down

Luke 5.17-26 Before I start my sermon, I need to read you a letter I have just written to Mary as Clerk to the Congregational Board. I apologies to anyone who may feel offended. Dear Mary As you will remember some weeks ago, I asked a chap from Nazareth to do a Sundays’ Pulpit supply [...]

Time for change

  Romans 6.1-11 There used to be an advert on the TV of a father sitting having a healthy breakfast cereal in his jogging gear. His son is skeptical of his dad’s change of lifestyle. The father leaves the house claiming to be going running but takes the car with the comment – “Little at [...]

Deck Chair

The woman sat on the deck chair looking out to sea and imagined a far-off ship going to the tropics. There it would find the warmth she had never experienced. She enjoyed a good life in a material sense at least. In personal relationships, she had been less fortunate. And so, she could buy a gift [...]

Woman on a deck chair

The woman sat on the deck chair looking out to sea. Way out, she saw a ship and imagined it going to the tropics; to the warmth that she had never felt. Now  life had been good to her in a material sense at least. In personal relations she had been less fortunate. In truth, [...]