Isaiah 40.1-11- 'Comfort... God is coming back!'Well, the Christmas lights are on, and the enormous tree has been planted on the High Street- 'the season to be jolly' is almost here.But Christmas is more than an excuse for a posh meal. There's more ...

30 November 2008 - Stockton Parish Church

Lamentations 1.12-16The following was written as a reflection for a service of Compline.Read Mark 15.42-endFrom quite early on the church has seen the Lamentations of Jeremiah as a prophetic expression of the desolation and sorrow of the first Good F...

21 March 2008 - St Saviour's, Larkhall

Judges 4.1-15Book ContextOur passage this morning is from the book of Judges, which tells us about what happened after Joshua died. In 2.10 it says, 'After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember...

22 July 2007 - St Paul's, Whitley

Ben Green 2007Jeremiah 18.1-12-Place play-dough on the small table.-God's message to the house of Israel is simple- 'turn back to me, or be destroyed.'God sent Jeremiah to the potter's house, where he would give him a message. Jeremiah went, and wa...

02 March 2007 - Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

Ben Green 2007Isaiah 6.1-8I wonder if any of you have ever heard of phantom limb pain? It's the pain that people sometimes continue to feel after they've had a limb amputated. Doctors aren't sure why this happens, but they think it's because nerve...

04 February 2007 - St John, Hailey