Sermon For 4th After Trinity Yr C Lerwick We know all too well many of the stories of the wanderings in the wilderness. From the dramatic exit from Egypt through the Red Sea where the pursuing armies of the Egyptians…

Sermon   7 July 2019  Luke 10; 1-11, 16-20  Imagine being told, not asked, but told that you are to go on a journey without money or a bag, and no accommodation booked in advance. You are not to greet anyone…

Sermon For Trinity 2019   There is often a ripple of a smile or even laughter when those who are preaching are asked to preach on Trinity Sunday. It seems to me quite natural why this might be the case,…

When reading Acts I remembered that tomorrow is the day in the Church year to remember the martyrs of Uganda in 1885 – 1887, and 1977, I felt I wanted  to try to find out how Christian martyrs endured their…

Sermon For Pentecost  2019   The Day of Pentecost and they were all together in one place… then suddenly! It all seems so straightforward and so amazingly sudden. There seems to be none of the doubting and questioning as we…

Sermon For Easter 5 Lerwick and yell 2019 I have just got back from my parents home (as many of you will know) It is the place where I grew up, and I guess really … yes it is still…

12th May at St Magnus’ Lerwick I might say that over the past weeks my life has been dominated by death. There have been the usual funerals where sometimes the topic is raised, though strangely when I think on it,…