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A sermon preached at the morning services of traditional worship at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Houston, on March 30th, 2025.

A sermon on Luke 13:1-9 that I preached on March 23rd at Riverway, St. Martin's, Houston. (The video is of the whole service, the sermon** begins at about the 18minute mark.)

A sermon on Ezra 6:19-22, given in Wycliffe Chapel on Tuesday 11th March 2025.

Every day in chapel, one of our students gives a short, 5-minute, sermon on one of the lectionary readings for the day. This reflection was inspired by a reading from John 4, that was then wonderfully preached on by a 3rd year student (though these reflections are my own!).

(To read Zechariah 6 for yourself, click here . ) Zechariah reads a bit like the OT equivalent of Revelation. But what's it all about? In ch.1-6 a series of angelic visions are given to Zechariah, a prophet of God. The situation he and the people were facing? Life after exile. They were returning to Judea at the beginning of the Persian empire (late 6th century BCE). The people were facing the challenges of rebuilding life after facing God's punishment for 70 years. The message of Zech 1-6 includes God's call on them to repent (ch.1), comfort that he would restore them post-exile as well as bring Babylon to justice for taking their imperial authority too far (e.g. ch.2). The video above is of my 30-minute talk on the last section that wraps up the series of visions: Zechariah 6. It has chariots and differently-coloured horses. It's got crowns and an enigmatic figure named "Branch". In short, it is not the easiest chapter of the Bible to understand, but it does still has something to say! ****** Cover image: Photo by Megan Watson on Unsplash

This term I'm teaching a class on Daniel. One thing we do together is read through the book together, chapter by chapter, focusing on what the text actually says and not what we think it says (as best we can, anyhow). The below are very much some thoughts "out loud" on what I noticed about what we read this week on Daniel 1.

After another round with Covid in the last year, God has been teaching me a few things about work/life balance, being realistic about my limits and trusting Him in the process of it all (which is much easier to write about than learn!).

I'm preparing a class on preaching different parts of the Bible (i.e. the Psalms vs. the prophets vs. a gospel reading... you get the idea). One thing I'm a big believer in is preaching the text as we find it in its context. So if it's an Old Testament passage: preach it so! We won't understand how Jesus fulfills the Law and the Prophets if we don't know what they say to begin with. Long story short: I came across this sermon from Advent (2021, I believe) on Micah 5:2-5. I don't know if I'd preach it this way again, but I did the best I could!

A Christmas Message for wherever you find yourself geographically or otherwise this season.