Author Archives: Parish Church of St Mark, Chadderton

  During the time that I was thinking about offering myself for ordination, the diocese of Blackburn, under whose jurisdiction and care I was then under, were running an educational course called God our Rock, subtitled, Foundations for Christian Living. It was a course that anyone could enrol on and take but it was especiallyContinue reading “Sermon for the 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 15) 12th September, 2021”

A few days ago, I had a visit from my daughter and her children. In many ways it was a visit that said a lot about how different generations of people like and do different things. When I used to visit my grandparents, myself and my sisters would talk to them and play board gamesContinue reading “Sermon for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 14) 5th September, 2021”

In recent years we’ve heard quite a lot of criticism of American presidents, haven’t we? It would be difficult to catalogue the number and range of criticisms that were levelled at Donald Trump during his presidency and now it seems the knives are out for President Joe Biden as his competency, trustworthiness and not toContinue reading “Sermon for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Trinity 13) 29th August, 2021”