Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

One of the core teachings of the Christian faith is that Christ died to take away the sins of the world. And that is of crucial importance to us because it gives us the assurance that we can inherit eternal life in spite of our sinfulness because, through Christ’s death on the Cross, we canContinue reading “Sermon for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (3rd Sunday before Advent: Remembrance Sunday) 10th November 2024”

I once read that the world is made up of two kinds of people; those who have read The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read it. I don’t know if that’s true or not and if it is, I’m somewhere on the journey between those two states because I’ve readContinue reading “Sermon for All Saints Sunday 3rd November 2024”

One of the things we soon realise when we start to study the Gospels rather than simply read them, is that the Gospel stories usually work on multiple levels. There’s the plain meaning of the story we read but hidden within the story there’s usually a spiritual meaning. Sometimes Jesus himself tells us what thatContinue reading “Sermon for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Last after Trinity) 27th October 2024”