Book: Matthew

A parable about unemployed day labourers becomes a case for training up ordinary people for ministry — without burning out the ones who already show up.

Twenty-five years on from 9/11, still trapped between an angry sea and old enemies, and still asked to accept a mercy that plays no favourites.

When grief and loss make no sense, scripture’s oldest protest offers not answers, but a God who weeps beside us.

Peter begged Jesus to avoid the coming disaster. Paul offers something braver: how to live with love, courage and beauty when there’s no escape.

A footballers’ scandal, a call to sober judgment, and an uncomfortable question: how much of this culture do we all help sustain?

Kindred is beautiful – and it always draws a line (usually without realising). A sermon on Joseph, Jesus, and grace beyond the boundary.

Modern slavery, a half-hearted rescue, and a sinking disciple: a sermon on what makes a response to injustice faithful, not just felt.

When grief leaves us wordless and a hard parable unsettles us, Jesus promises that nothing – not even death – can separate us from God’s love.

Sowing without sorting the soil first: reckless, generous welcome amid addiction, loss, and quiet hope.

Being “inclusive” doesn’t end the old habit of exclusion – it just relocates it. Jesus offers a different yoke instead.

Faith is not a mental exercise — it’s the reaching, grasping, hoping of beggars who trust that God’s grace will prevail.

An ancient icon of the Trinity shows us a table of radical hospitality — and calls us not just to sit at it, but to become it.