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Disciplined Worship

I wonder if you have house rules? And if you do, I wonder how they came to be decided. Let me give you some examples. In our house it’s my job to load the dishwasher and put it on before I go to bed. We didn’t need this rule before we had a dishwasher, and […]

What do you see in the world around you?

Preached on August 13th 2008. Almost one hundred years ago two women died. On this day, in 1910, Florence Nightingale’s life ended. On this day, in 1912, Octavia Hill gave up the ghost. Both of these women had looked at the world as it was in their day, found it lacking, and set about changing […]

God is a Womble

Today is Trinity Sunday, when the church takes a deep breath and engages with one of its most exciting ideas, that of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This falls at a really good time for me, coming as it does at following the week when I have been studying the way in which […]

Christmas 2 – Epiphany

Tonight, getting towards the end of the Christmas season, we’re thinking about Epiphany. On Christmas day we celebrated what is called the Incarnation, that is when God became human. But in some senses today’s celebration is more important . That’s because it’s only through Epiphany that we know what God is up to. A baby […]