Video Sermons
“In the name of religion”
"... you may as well have been having a ham sandwich in the synagogue ..."
“Faith and Function”
"All of us will continue through all eternity, whether we like it or not."
“Puzzle of Saint Peter”
"He’s weak and fallible, just like the rest of us, He can get overenthusiastic and talk too much, just like some of us..."
“Bishops”
"...what actually is a Bishop and why should we have them..."
“Changing Us”
"...we don’t want to be told that we’re not as good as we think we are..."
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The Holy Cross
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No other Name
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According to Plan
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The Three Kings
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Baptism
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Animal Hopes
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Uncovering the kingdom
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Last Words
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God’s Mother
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Full of Grace
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The Church Year
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According to Plan
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Going Home
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Bible Believing
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Saving Fido
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Dives and Lazarus
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The Bronze Serpent
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Book Burning
"...what he means by that is that human beings get their religion seriously wrong ..." |
Unpopular Religion
"...He was just the sort of feller that we would want to make sure that our churches are filled...but, things go wrong!" |
Petrine Privilege
"...the Bishops are just not sort of elected functionaries, they are..." |
The Truth about Us
"...that the purpose of human life is the world beyond this one..." |
Persons and Passions
"...you might ask yourself, " Well then, why isn’t the Gospel of Judas in the New Testament? " and the answer..." |
God’s Foolishness
"...God has had and always has had absolutely everything God could possibly want from all eternity, and yet..." |
God and Nature
"...not that awful sort of gratitude that you’re required to feel at Christmas time ..." |
Finding the Answer
"Now that’s not the sort of thing that modern churchmen want to hear. They want to hear that the world is somehow a good place and that..." |
Asking the Shepherd
"Now, a lot of people think that prayer is about asking for things, especially if nobody else has been able to give them to you..." |
Believe and Live
"...why would the author of this Gospel - St John’s Gospel - make this outrageous claim? A claim which has been made ever since, I might say..." |
Being Real
"...He was exceptionally human, and He wasn’t much liked by the ecclesiastical establishment for it..." |
Christ is Risen
"...God is our Saviour because only God can do this for us. You’ve got to live when you’re dead...’" |
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Following Abraham
"...and it’s not going to make any sense to anybody whatsoever..." |
Sin and Repentance
"... sin is a very important part of our lives, it’s something which by and large we’re rather fond of..." |
All Change
"I was an innocent young man, and..." |
A bigger God
"...it’s become odder and odder ... and it’s become rather overwhelming..." |
Family Life
"But obviously this is a story which has a very special kind of meaning and it’s also a meaning which is clearly not easy to find." |
Christian Initiation
"...in recent years, Anglicans in particular have become a little bit concerned about the relationship between these two great Sacraments." |
God on the Wire
"I sometimes wonder why the universe is as big as it is." |
The Word Written and Unwritten
"...words, however wonderful they might be, cannot in any way encapsulate the whole of God’s nature..." |
Knowing how to know
"...that’s why we have so many churches and denominations in the world..." |
At Midnight Mass
"The original Christmas took place in darkness...it was utterly and absolutely obscure and for 300 years it was persecuted..." |
Theory and Reality
"...to a certain extent we seem to have lost the plot a bit, which is why the Chrisitan religion is a wonderful thing..." |
Waiting in purple
"...how could it be superficial when the Almighty God becomes a suffering human being..." |
Here comes the Judge
"...and this is a happy hunting ground for all the weirdo sects that you could possibly imagine..." |
For All Souls
"...and he said ’ Well you may be just apes, but I am a child of God.’ " |
The Christian Sacrifice
"...it became necessary for the Church to explain that yes, they did, even if it didn’t look like it." |
Revelations
"You know the story that the Bible begins with a man and a woman in a garden and ends with Revelations. Well..." |
Holy Legalism
"...rules and regulations are something which people hold on to very often, even when they’re quite meaningless..." |
Paying the Price
"...and the answer must be, The Cross of Christ.’" |
Holy Evolution
"...evolution is a necessary part not just of this world, but of the next...’" |
For St Luke
"I still find St Luke’s Gospel in some ways ... the one that’s easiest to love...’" |
Egghead Sandwich
"...egghead knowledge is not the only knowledge that’s required...’" |
Being Reformed
"...if you were the elect, then you had to behave like the elect. Of course, behaving like the elect wouldn’t make you elect...’" |
Calvin’s Tulip
"In the 16th century, people were a bit concerned about how they were going to be saved.’" |
The Burning Bush
"We should follow the example of the Eastern Church in this as in just about everything..." |
Opening Pandora’s Box
"...I thought to myself, ’Only a very brave man or a fool would attempt to preach on the subject’ - you can guess which I am.’" |
The Assumption
"...it’s God that’s doing it to them, so who can they turn to?..." |
Rites and Prayers
"...the liturgy encapsulates the experience of centuries of worship..." |
Eucharistic Fashion
"...the fact that so much of the New Zealand church has let it happen is a very terrible and awful and wicked thing but, they’ve got all the empty churches they like to prove it." |
God with us
"...therefore the creation of the universe is an act of overwhelming generosity on His part..." |
The Bread of Truth
"...we don’t do Truth in our culture - or rather, we do a multitude of truths..." |
Mother of the Word
"...the Blessed Virgin has appeared in all sorts of guises. I’ve seen her twice as a black Virgin..." |
Church Unity
"...it’s interesting isn’t it how everything’s forbidden until it becomes compulsory..." |
Corpus Christi
"...the extraordinary thing about this service is that it is the very centre of Chrisitan life..." |
Rogationtide
"...It’s called Rogation Sunday because it’s followed by Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday..." |
Charismatic Summer
"... saying ’at last, at last, now Saint Peter’s Caversham will be converted to Christianity’ ..." |
Satan’s God
"...I don’t imagine for a moment he was thrown out of Heaven, he left!..." |
Doubt and A N Wilson
"...I was used to giving him good advice about what to believe ... and he didn’t always seem to want to listen to what I had to say ... which is rather surprising..." |
The Great Spirit
"...I found The Father and The Son a bit frightening...then I found The Great Spirit..." |
Gritting Your Teeth
"...For some 15 years or so I was a Police Chaplain..." "...God likewise has suffered and endured..." |
Trinity
"...and all those nasty clergymen made it all terribly complicated with doctrines like The Trinity, but..." |
Restoring Humpty Dumpty
"...now they say ’Huh, my opinion’s as good as the Pope’s’..." |
The Benedictine Vision
"...discretion is the mother of virtue..." |
The Lesser Brethren
"St Augustine....saw the great difficulty we have in following the will of God." |
Anglican Unity and New Ideas
"...there are more Anglicans in Japan than there are in New Zealand..." |
Fundamental and Transfigured
"...trying to understand why people are fundamentalists..." |
Surviving death naturally
"...[she] turned to me ... and said ’O Carl, you don’t really believe in that do you?’..." |
The Annunciation
"...she would have known profoundly ... that she was going to be involved in something absolutely overwhelming..." |
The Point of Repentance
"...repentance means ... that we should change our minds, change the way we think..." |
Who did He think He was
"..this is the very essence and heart of our religion, so of course there is a number of things about it which are important..." |
The Woman taken in Adultery
"...they slink away one by one because they are not able to justify themselves." |
Understanding the Sacraments : i
"The Christian religion does not believe that human beings and God are the same thing." |
Understanding the Sacraments : ii
"There are a number of theories of the way in which Christ is present in the Sacrament..." |
The Gospel without guilt
"Now I think it has to be a bit like being in love..." Background Readings: Jeremiah 1.4-5, 17-19 Corinthians 12.31-13.13 Luke 4.21-30
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Lessening the guilt
"...not only just a fantasy, but it’s actually a rather irreligious fantasy..." |
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