We have just sung, “God be in my head, and in my understanding…”   It is a prayer we could do well to pray each day as we are faced with decisions, with living out our more»

It was a fashionable Presbyterian inner suburban ‘old money’ congregation in the United States.  It was time for serving communion which, in traditional Presbyterian fashion, meant more»

 There was a prayer that used to be recited daily by Jewish men.  I don’t know whether it still is, or if it happens in every Jewish community, but it apparently was a pretty more»

When I realised late last week that today, 15th August, that Mary the mother of Jesus was being celebrated by the world’s Roman Catholics in the Feast of the Assumption, and by all the more»

I was going to begin this sermon by saying, “As I was saying the last time I preached in this chapel...”  But then I realised that the last time was in 1972 and none of you were more»

From the written word and the spoken word, reveal to us your true and everlasting Word, O God, our strength forever. Amen. “If I get the full-time job, I’m going to visit more»

“It doesn’t matter how old they are, they are always your children.”  Many of you will recognise that sentiment which came from a woman in her late sixties, commenting on the more»

I once nearly met Desmond Tutu.  It was in Christchurch, in 1988, I think.  I was walking along a mid-city street at lunchtime when I noticed a short black figure striding towards me.  more»

 From the written word and the spoken word, reveal to us your true and everlasting Word, O God, our strength and our redeemer. Amen. My grandmother, for most of her nearly 93 years, has more»

 On this equivalent weekend in 1998, I had a choice to make.  On one hand I could choose to spend Saturday night in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.  The church, built on more»