This week is the first week of Advent, the beginning of the church year. So why, in what should be a time of expectant waiting, do we have a reading about he end of the world? (sorry there was no sermon up for November 24, I had a Sunday off!)

The reading is parts of Luke's apocalypse. How did the people of Jesus time have hope after the destruction of Jerusalem? How do we have hope in the face of the existential threat of climate change?

Seven brides for seven brothers? Try one bride for seven brothers. Jesus deals with a hypothetical about what happens after death. It's not clear what Jesus thinks happens but there might be a few clues in his response... 

A life of grace and the story of Zacchaeus

I wasn't preaching on the 27th so here's one I prepared earlier. Its from about this time last year and looks at the story of Bartimaeus

Another reading from Luke, the upside down gospel. What does an upside down reading of the parable of the widows and the unjust judge offer us?

I wasn't preaching on Sunday, so here's one I prepared earlier. it's from about this time last year and it's about Jesus and his comments on divorce.

Who would invite a slave to sit and be served? No one? Except we are reading Luke, the gospel that turns the world upside down...

The cracking story of the rich man and Lazarus and what it means to really live!

Looking at the first letter to Timothy and what it means to pray for everyone