Tag Archives: the devil

Losing Your Life: Sermon Preached on 25th February 2024 (Second Sunday in Lent)

The Devil promises we can have both it all if we have enough power: but most people with power abuse it. Continue reading

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Fear the Devil: Sermon Preached on 25th June 2023 (3rd Sunday After Trinity)

The Devil sometimes has the reputation of being the coolest dude in town… but we should take him seriously. Continue reading

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Christianity is Strange (Easter Day 2023)

The Resurrection could be a fiction by people in denial: but then we’d expect more consistency, not the Gospels’ authenticity of roughness Continue reading

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Why the Talking Snake Matters: Sermon Preached on Saturday 8th April 2023 (Easter Vigil)

The Garden of Eden is a myth about what humans were before we had the capacity to exterminate other forms of life at our convenience Continue reading

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War and the Devil: Sermon Preached at St John’s, Devizes, Sunday 6th March 2022 (The First Sunday in Lent)

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist: what has this to do with Kevin Spacey and Ukraine? Continue reading

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