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Kingdom 2 ’25

Every year when I come to preach on Remembrance Sunday, without fail, there is more violence, war and innocent blood shed than the previous year I had preached. So the end must be near right? Jesus is coming back soon, look at all the signs, right?
We’re in Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians again, one of Paul’s earliest letters and therefore one of the earliest texts in the New Testament. And having spoken into the suffering of the Thessalonians in chapter 1, assuring them of God’s justice and care for them, Paul now turns to the first of two issues which are troubling the church there; the question of Jesus’ return.

Feast of St Michael & All Angels ’24

Angels bear a fascination for many in our day. People have statues of them, talk of loved ones becoming them after death, ponder about guardian angels. Angels, it seems, are taken as the safest idea that there might be more to our world than what we can see. That there might be forces and powers and activities happening in a layer of reality which we cannot observe or measure, a spiritual dimension to things. And there seem to be a few different approaches to this idea that there is more to reality than what we can see.

Trinity 2 ’24

Christians often talk about forgiveness, it’s a central theme of the Gospel and yet here Jesus speaks of a sin which is unforgivable, where forgiveness, it seems, is impossible. What’s going on here, and how might even this be good news?

Trinity 7 ’23

Why does God allow bad things to happen? If he’s good, why is there evil in the world?
It’s one of the most common objections to the idea of God, a cry against organised religion. And it’s a really important question, one that comes very close to home, incredibly close for some of us.
But it’s a question that’s at the heart of this parable Jesus tells.