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Have you ever wondered what would have happened if ‘nothing had happened’ after Jesus’ cry of “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”

The blessing from Jesus falls upon those who have not seen and yet have come to believe. In other words, you and me.

We have dozens of mental images of Christ. Passiontide is about the Cross. It is and it should be hard for us, because we love Christ. Jesus has entered our imagination

Each year is a time of salvation, a step on our journey towards the light.

Here we see a Jesus not at prayer nor at peace but in anger.

We are being justified step by step, as we follow Christ. We can ask Christ’s help for each step, and that is what the Christian life is about.

The good news, for us, is this – that God has intervened decisively in Christ to free us from fear and sin and death.

We are on the brink of Lent. 40 days of preparation for most powerful and central days of the Christian year .

“Why do we turn up week after week to do what we do in this place.”

This child – the baby who Simeon calls the light to be revealed to all people, who is the glory of Israel, who is the harbinger of salvation.

During Epiphany we are recalled to the very nature of the world, an expression of God’s loving creation.

Why is the shepherd pointing at the hole in the roof?

Why me? I’m not good enough.

We are longing for the completion of God’s will.

In Advent, we need to do some preparation to see things as they are.

I want to talk about the Cross of Migrants as a way of helping us focus our thoughts on what it means to have Christ as our King.

We have been given great gifts, and great possibilities, and it is crucial that we turn to and use them for building up the Kingdom.

This service on Remembrance Day gives us an opportunity to symbolise some things very hard to express.

I would like to suggest that each of us has encountered a saint.

How do we read the Bible in these dark and difficult times ?

Who are we and what do we really worship ?

How can we retain hope in the world in the face of darkness, cruelty and destruction?

Today’s parable forms the climax of the three and is the most challenging.

Today is our Dedication Festival when we celebrate this building, so I want to talk about being a house of prayer.

God is generous to all who come, however late they come - and we should not be envious of his generosity.

If sin is the failure to recognise and act on the humanity of other Human beings, then we are in urgent need of repentance

Living a good life is about giving and receiving love

Discipleship is hard. There are moments when the joy of God’s love and the delight of his words will flood our hearts and minds. There are times when we will have to navigate, with Peter, the stormy seas of disillusionment and fear.

She teaches us to trust in a mercy which transforms and heals. She shows us how to seek, ask, beseech God for the mercy that he longs to give.

To have faith in Jesus Christ is to live as if some fairly fundamental rules about the world, which most adults believe most of the time, simply do not apply.