Sermon: life by love, not by numbers

St Paul's Woldingham 4th October 2015 Evensong Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Luke 17:11-19 Have you ever wished life could be simple? I certainly have. Sometimes there are so many options it's hard to know which is best. What will bring abundance? What will bring blessing and fruitfulness and success? The reading from Deuteronomy this evening seems to offer an answer: worship God and no other gods, follow...

There is just one flesh we can wound

I am discouraged that it seems necessary to say "don't kill Palestinians" or "don't kill Christians in Iraq" or that there is outcry over the plight of the Yazidi. How about "Don't kill people"? It isn't the Palestinian identity, the Christian faith, the Yazidi culture that makes it important not to kill people: it is their humanity. I struggle to understand why this isn't obvious, but apparently...