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Observations

The Why, What and How of Christian Growth

This is the script from the sermon that I preached at Emmanuel Church in Keighley, yesterday. It’s longer than most of my blog posts – sorry about that. It also has a number of typos and things carried over from the script, apologies if that bothers you. 2 Peter 1:5-9 Introduction It goes without saying […]

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Do Not Use

A Sermon for Easter

We can’t condone what Judas did, but we can understand it.

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Do Not Use

Love and Lust

Thoughts on love, lust and a positive vision for life, from the Sermon on the Mount.

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Sermons and Talks

Which Story Are We Living In?

There are two competing narratives which explain and describe life on earth; the problem is that Christians we forget which one they are living in!

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Observations

The Jesus Who Rose Again

Dead people stay dead. But if one person didn’t actually stay dead, then the whole world is a different place to the one we think we are living in.

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Jesus Who Was Born

Jesus wasn’t born in a nice unit in a modern hospital. He was born in a fairly primitive building, perhaps lit by smoky oil lamps. His mother was an unmarried teenage girl, in a town far away from her family and friends. I’ve no doubt that the women of the village gathered round to help the strange girl who found herself giving birth a long way from home. That’s what happens in relational societies. When Jesus came into the world, he was a funny colour and if he didn’t start screaming immediately, a woman no-doubt smacked his bum to get his lungs working and some air flowing.

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Reviews

Don’t Just Listen

Here is my sermon from Christ Church Flackwell Heath on James 1:22-25. http://docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/bb27e7ce-476d-483c-9e11-8d54267c87ad/20130224.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:12 — 2.7MB) | Embed

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Belonging to the World Church

I recently had the pleasure of preaching at Portswood Church in Southampton for their world mission Sunday. We looked at a passage to which I seem to be returning with great regularity, these days; Acts 8. For some reason, our podcast player doesn’t seem to be working, but you can download the talk here. http://www.portswood.org/downloads/Sermons/2012/11%20-%20November/18%20AM/18th%20November%202012.mp3Podcast: […]

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Christian Life

Running the Race of Faith

Here is my sermon from this morning’s service at Christ Church Flackwell Heath http://docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/bb27e7ce-476d-483c-9e11-8d54267c87ad/20120909.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:30 — 3.0MB) | Embed

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Barnabas

This is a sermon I preached at Chinnor Congregational Church at a service celebrating the work of my colleague Ann Long. Ann was the Wycliffe administrator who took care of Sue and I before we went to Africa, and years later became the head of HR while I was director in Ivory Coast and latterly, […]