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• Six Reasons to Fast

  

  Christ in the Wilderness. Ivan Kramskoy1. Natural fasting: when we are emotionally so full or empty that we do not want to eat. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Some Reflections on AI

  

  Last week I attended a day organised by the Norfolk Gospel Partnership exploring AI and its blessings and curses. The day was titled Artificial Intelligence -... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Transfiguration: The Son of God, the Word of God and Glory

  

  Luke 9:28-36Today, on this last Sunday before Lent, we read of how Peter, James and John see the transfigured Jesus. They have been taken up a mountain by... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Preach 'blessed Are the Poor' to Those Who Are Rich?

  Luke 6:17-26Mark Twain famously said that it was not the bits of the Bible that he couldn't understand that caused him problems, but the bits that he did.... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Encounter. The Icon of the Presentation

  

  Luke 2:22-38 If you go into an Orthodox church, often in front of you, where the sanctuary rail would be, is a large panel on which rows of icons are placed –... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath

  

  Mark 3:1-16I wonder what the man with the withered hand expected when he went to the synagogue that Saturday?He would, at least technically, have not been... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Psalm 96: The Glory of God

  

  Psalm 96:3,7,8'Declare his glory among the nations ..Ascribe to the Lord .. glory and strength; ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name'. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Icon of the Baptism: Identification

  

  Luke 03'15-17,21-22From 1993 to 1995 Alison and myself were sent by CMS to build bridges with Orthodox believers in Russia. We lived in the Orthodox seminary... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Grace and Glory. Two Words for 2025

  

  John 1:10-18Beginning of New Year: Opportunity to revisit John 1 and look at these verses in a little more detail. Two words for 2025. Glory and Grace!1.... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The In-between Night. A Talk for Christmas Midnight Communion 2024

  

  There is something very special about this night. It is a moment in time – filled with memory and with anticipation. If this building could speak, I wonder... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The God Who Empties Himself to Fill Us. Carol Service 2024

  

  I’ve been watching again the film Nativity. It is very funny, but also poignant. At one point children pour out their hearts to Santa – about what they want... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Orthodox Evening Prayer

  s In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Glory to You, our God, glory to You. Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of truth, present... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Lord of Mercy is Coming. Advent 2

  

  Luke 3:1-6 Our reading from the gospel today is a bit of a fraud! Half of it is a reading from the Old Testament. Luke quotes from Isaiah 40 verses 3-5. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Crossing the Road. Remembrance Sunday 2024

  

  Luke 10:25-37Two years ago, nine months after the invasion of Ukraine, I was about to conduct a Remembrance Day service in St Andrew’s Anglican Church in... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Overcoming the Devastation of Death

  

  John 11:32-44 In John 11:32 we are told that Jesus, seeing Mary weeping and the people with her weeping, is deeply disturbed. Why? Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Meeting with Jesus

  Mark 10:46-52I love this story. It comes at a very significant point in Mark’s gospel. Mark has put this story here as the climax of the first half of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Holding on to Our Hope That Jesus Will Return

  Luke 12:35-4835“Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; 36be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Do I Have to Sell Everything That I Have to Follow Jesus?

  

  Mark 10.25-31 [Note to congregation on why I hand out the text. I would love you to take it home with you. To reread it, to think it through for yourself.... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Four Outrageous Claims of Jesus

  

  John 6.35,41-51 “Our hungers are so deep. We are dying of thirst. We are bundles of seemingly insatiable need, rushing here and there in a vain attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Baptism as a Door into Another World

  

  John 6:24-35 Baptism is a door into another world. Like the wardrobe in CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It takes us from this world into... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2024 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY