Starting the conversation from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 5 March 2021 What do you think we can learn from the pandemic? That’s a question worth asking. I’m not pretending to give a full answer to it here. I don’t have enough space, and I’m not qualified to do so. What I want
Read moreHumble in the face of nature from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 26 February 2021 In his speech on Monday, the Prime Minister laid out a road map for coming out of lockdown. He wisely admitted that many people feel that “it is arrogant to impose any kind of plan upon a virus.”
Read moreCommon grace from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 19 February 2021 Is the world beautiful, or is it broken? Surely the answer is ‘both’. And the present pandemic illustrates both. The virus is evidence of the brokenness, while the efforts of medics, care workers and scientists are beautiful. As Christians, we...
Read moreIs the pandemic God’s judgment from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 12 February 2021 Is the pandemic God’s judgment? That’s what some people are thinking, while others are asking if that’s what we think as Christians. Meanwhile, others think such talk is ridiculous, and they don’t want anything to do with...
Read moreHands Face Space Grace from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 5 February 2021 Hands Face Space. We’re now very familiar with what we need to do to help protect the NHS and to save lives. We’re to wash our hands regularly, wear a face covering and maintain social distancing. And someone has suggested
Read moreGovernment is good from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 29 January 2021 Government is good. That’s not to say that everything every government does is good. Of course not. We know that. But government itself is good. It’s a gift from God. That seems pretty clear from Romans chapter 13. Three times we’re
Read moreMark of the beast from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 22 January 2021 Is the Covid-19 vaccine the mark of the beast? That is what some have suggested. You may be disappointed with what I’m going to say about this. I’ve realised there are too many questions to address them all in a
Read moreLeave it to God from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 15th January 2021 John Grisham’s novel A Time to Kill tells the story of a man put on trial for the murder of the two men who raped his daughter. She was ten years old. There’s no doubt that the men assaulted his
Read moreIs your God too small from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 8 January 2021 JB Phillips is famous for translating the New Testament into modern English. In 1952 he wrote a book with the title Your God is Too Small. He says, “The trouble with many people today is that they have not
Read moreHave you seen God from St Stephen’s & St Wulstan’s on Vimeo. 18 December 2020 Yuri Gagarin is famous for being the first human being to journey into outer space – in 1961, as a Russian cosmonaut. Some time later, the Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev declared at a conference: “Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t
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