Mark Whittall

This is a great day! All Saints. Baptisms. It doesn’t get much better than this. There is nothing better than being here with all you saints! Yes you. Don’t be looking over your shoulder, I’m talking about you. We are the saints, we are the holy ones, we are the people who have been made holy by God and set apart by God as sacred. You will never encounter anything more sacred than the person sitting right beside you. Today we will celebrate the gift of baptism, God’s gif

Some parables should come with warning labels: Watch out, this parable is a trap. At first glance the parable we just heard has a straightforward message. Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. They went to where God was thought to be, the Temple in Jerusalem. At the centre of the temple was the place called the holy of holies, which was understood to be filled with the presence of God. Because the Pharisee was a righteous man,

I love Thanksgiving Sunday. I love the music, I love the decorations, I love this time of year with its colours and crisp temperatures. I do however have a problem with Thanksgiving Sunday. And it is this: having a Thanksgiving Sunday can make the practice of thanksgiving seem like an add-on, like something we do once a year. And that would be a huge mistake. Because thanksgiving is not an add-on. It’s not a “nice to have”. Thanksgiving is profound practice which is absolut