Luke 2:39-52 – Jesus Christ: a child to be adored

You can download this sermon as a Word document here As a church, we are beginning to move out of the Christmas season and into the season of Epiphany. The word ‘Epiphany’ is from the Greek, which means: “the realisation of the true meaning of something” – and...

Luke 4:16-24 – The church: inclusion for all

The text of this sermon can be downloaded as a Word document here The reading that we’ve had from the Gospel today is a really important because it is the first moment in Jesus’ public ministry. He has just come out of the desert after 40 days of trial and temptation...

Luke 5:12-16 – The healing power of God

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here There are so many healing stories in the Gospels that sometimes we are tempted to conflate them into one big narrative about Jesus as some sort of miracle-worker who will meet our every need whenever we...

Luke 5:33-39 – Holding the new in tension with the old

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here UK Politics at the moment is fascinating, isn’t it? A bit scary to see how all the pieces will land, to be sure, but fascinating all the same. And one of the most fascinating aspects of it, for me...

Luke 6:27-36 – How to love your enemies

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here Mark Twain, the author, was once asked, “Don’t you have a problem as a Christian with all those bits of the Bible that you don’t understand?” He replied, “It’s not the bits that I don’t understand that...

Luke 6:36-42 – Making right judgments

You can download this sermon as a Word document here “Do not judge others, and God will not judge you.” Is that even possible? What on earth does Jesus mean by saying this? And when we think about that statement in the context of the rest of the Bible, we see that...