by Samuel Smithson | Sep 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Role of the Collects in the Life of the Church The role of the collects in the life of the Church is to help establish in the hearts and minds of worshippers that which is essential for sound belief. Now in the Christian understanding of that word ‘belief’...
by Samuel Smithson | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Luke 6; 46 to 49 In the run up to today’s gospel reading Luke tells us that Jesus has spent the night on a mountainside praying and then he’s selected the 12 apostles. On his way down from the mountain, Jesus comes to a level place where a great multitude of people...
by Samuel Smithson | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happiness has been in the news recently with the government publishing its happiness index. Most people are motivated by a desire to be happy in life and accordingly they try and do and achieve things which they think will make them happy. Many seek happiness in...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m a harvest worker and I remember that day so well. It was hot and dry and dusty. The teacher had been in a strange mood the past couple of days. He’d spent the whole night in prayer and he seemed sombre and quiet. Not full of joy like he usually was. Now of...
by Samuel Smithson | Jun 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was talking with a clergy friend who asked me what I had been preaching about recently on Sundays at Brenchley. I replied that we were doing a short series on the letters of John. ‘Oh’, he said, ‘some tough lessons there! Are they still coming?’ Well I have to...
