What does being pure in heart mean? What does that look like? And how will we see God if we are pure in heart? My sermon on Jesus’ promise from the Sermon on the Mount. This sermon is another on our sermon series on the Beatitudes. We are following the book Living differently to make a ..read more

What does forgiveness look like? What does it mean for us? What challenges does Jesus leave with us? This was my sermon from last year on a well known passage, early on in the sermon series on Mark. It’s also a passage with a lot going on, and where an understanding of what ‘Son of ..read more

What does the prophet Ezekiel have to say to someone newly ordained and us all in 2020? This was my sermon as Dawn led us in celebrating Communion for the first time. This has been, for many, a very hard year, and a very disrupted year for pretty much everyone in many parts of the ..read more

Jesus promises “blessed are those who mourn” but what does that mean? This talk looks at this beatitude. At Christ Church our current sermon series is on the Beatitudes. We are following the book Living differently to make a difference by Will Donaldson, which was helpful when preparing this sermon. Mourning; Readings: Psalm 23; Matthew ..read more

Hannah Khalil’s new play A Museum in Baghad is an ambitious mix of fact, fiction, debate, and magical realism, which tells a fascinating story about individuals and the country of Iraq. A Museum in Baghad juxtaposes the original opening of The Iraq Museum in 1926 with its reopening in 2006 after the looting during the ..read more

What is our identity? What difference does that make to our lives? And how does a change in our understanding of our identity make a difference? This sermon tries to answer these questions, reflecting on Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. It was preached at our joint Swadlincote Minster service, where the four Anglican churches that ..read more