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• Love One Another

  

  John 13:31-35 Jesus says, “I give you a new commandment that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another”. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Victory Day!

  

  Micah 4:1-4It is wonderful to be here celebrating VE day 80.Quite a few of you will remember the actual celebrations.My mother travelled from Newcastle to... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Calling of a Pastor

  

  John 21:15-19 In our reading Jesus commissions Peter to care for his people, for his sheep.Jesus commissions Peter. Icon from the church of St. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Faith Beyond Sight: Trusting in the Risen Jesus

  

  John 20:19-31 Thomas does not believe the other disciples. Thomas and the Disciples. Ravenna. Basilica di Sant'Apollinare NuovoHe has been with them for 3 years. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jesus is Lord of All. Passing on the Message of Hope. Easter 2025

  

  Acts 10:34-43This reading is about the passing on of a message. It was a message that began in Galilee with John the Baptist. It spread through Judea to... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Good Friday Reflections on an Icon of the Crucifixion

  

  And Jesus says, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself” (John 12:32) At first glance this is a very simple icon. But it is... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Kingship.Choice.Discipleship. Palm Sunday 2025

  

  Luke 19:28-40 Our reading today is about kingship, choice and discipleship.Listen to a podcast of this talk1. Kingship Today we celebrate the triumphal entry... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Giving Jesus Our Total Attention

  

  John 12:1-9Mary was so embarrassing.And Judas speaks for us, for sensible, grown-up church. He doesn’t refer to her outrageous behaviour: wiping Jesus’ feet wit... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Reset at the Cross: Finding Family on Mothering Sunday

  

  MOTHERING SUNDAY John 19.25-27 Today we give thanks to God for mothers and for those who were mothers to us. But mothering Sunday is not just a family affair.... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Repent Or Perish.

  

  Luke 13:1-8This is a very Lenten passage. It is headed in many versions as saying ‘Repent or perish’.It is one of those passages which might be used by those... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Three Temptations of Christ

  

  Luke 4:1-12 The temptations of Christ. The Basilica of San Marco, Venice c1100-1150The story is told of the boy whose parents found out that he was swimming in... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2025 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 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