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”
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Sermon for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 20) 13th October 2024
One of the problems we can often run into when we read the Bible, and I hope we all do read the Bible, regularly, is knowing how to read it. By that I mean, how do we interpret and understand what we read. How do we know, for example, what to take literally and whatContinue reading “Sermon for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Trinity 20) 13th October 2024”
Sermon for Harvest Thanksgiving 6th October 2024
Today we’re keeping our annual Harvest Thanksgiving service, or Harvest Festival as it used to be called. I know that these services tend to be either loved or loathed and people have their own good reasons for which side of that particular fence they sit on. But I don’t want to talk about that todayContinue reading “Sermon for Harvest Thanksgiving 6th October 2024”