It crossed my mind that it might not be the wisest thing to think I have anything good to say about the whole “faith vs works” thing, after all it started the Reformation and I am most certainly not a Martin Luther, not even a Martin Luther-Lite (may I be forgiven the execrable “Lite” . […]
Religion or true religion?
This Sunday I made a superficial attempt to rehabilitate the words “religion” and “religious” from their negative connotations. I say superficial because what I actually wanted to do is to remind all of us what “true” religion actually is. James has some very explicit instructions about how we are to behave and a counter-cultural definition […]
How should we behave?
This is a week to preach about behaviour. I would have used our Old Testament lesson but the story of David and Absalom is just too depressing to look at so instead we dove into Ephesians. This portion of Ephesians is one of the places that St. Paul tells us some of the behavioural characteristics […]