My Talks
gives you a selection of my public teaching -
Past Topics 5
Living Stones
- Career, possessions and body image are today's holy trinity. Is it any wonder we obsess over our identity and feel the insecurity we don't quite match up? I wonder how you would describe yourself if someone asked?
The Propaganda Of The Deed
- The assault on death in Bethany burned itself on the imaginations of those who witnessed it and announced the revolution to come. Mary and Martha were especially close to Jesus, so when Lazarus fell ill,
The Tyranny Of Time
- Who are we to judge what constitutes a waste of time? God has a different vision. Speed is an essential component of life today and a quote of Woody Allen from one of his earlier films establishes ....
The Stranger Among You
- What God is looking for in principle in our treatment of refugees is not hard to discern. We just need to give more attention to digging it out of scripture than we do to lazy media sloganeering.
The Bible In The Life Of The Christian
- We can’t do justice to the New Testament without embracing the Old Testament. Failure to do so is like leaving the 3-D glasses on your lap in one of those museum presentations about sea-life
Nicodemus By Night
- The early communists talked of creating a new Soviet man, but Christianity got there long beforehand as those who trust in Christ become a new people in his resurrection life.
Who Do You Think You Are?
- What God achieves through ordinary people shows there are no limits to spiritual mobility other than those we place on ourselves.
Among several indicators of a retreat from Christian memory in this country is ...
Revisiting David And Goliath
- We make lazy assumptions about the giant being too big and strong for others, so what do we learn from David's tactics?
Classical stories are often re-invented in garish, modern idioms that bear little
The Waiting Game
- The Christian journey is less like the measured pace of a ramble and more like the dreaded Heathrow experience. Among the virtues which are said to define Britishness – like fair play and hearing people out ....
You Are The Light Of The World
- One of the most romantic components of our faith is that we influence others for good even without realising it. Our capacity to do the reverse is probably why we do not dwell on this much.