When I was a teenager (and before I had come to a personal faith), I recognised that there was something different in the faces of those that I knew that believed. Before I understood that it was the Holy Spirit shining out of them, I used to describe this phenomenon as them having “ITV” faces which drew its analogy from the sparkly radiance that make up and lights achieved in a TV studio … More Transfiguration
Matthew 15:10–28
Isn’t that an embarrassing story about Jesus? OK, the woman’s daughter is healed by the end – but it doesn’t sound like the Jesus we know and love. It seems to include a couple of the hard sayings of Jesus. Things we wish he hadn’t said … More US and THEM
Can you imagine turning up to a church service and the person preaching announces “There are things that are really essential for us to understand and believe for our faith but I’m not going to talk about them because you wouldn’t understand me and they’d be way above your head” … More Human Understanding
In her sermon this morning, Rev Deborah imagined what it might have been like for the two disciples that didn’t realise they had met Jesus on the road to Emmaus … More The Road to Emmaus
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 