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Sermon #4 of 4 of the Summer 2024 sermon series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is: That in following Jesus, whatever we go through, we know that we can ‘trust God’s word’ - that ‘all things that God said will be fulfilled and come to be - not a single word of his speech will prove wrong’ - a...

Sermon #3 of 4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon #2 of #4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon #1 of #4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon for Sunday, June 30th 2024 (Proper 8, Year B) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News of Christianity is that where we are all born spiritually poor and homeless, God in Jesus stepped into that, and opened the way back to him to be saved from that; to be made acceptable to God again by being given Jesus’ perfect heart, and to re-mold our own hearts more an...

Manuscript available HERE Supplemental notes available HERE Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity (June 23rd, 2024 - Proper 7, Year B) The Good News is that: Jesus died in your place so that you might live forever. Not just any life, not just carrying on ‘as-is’ forever - so much more than that - life growing in perfect, selfless love with God & each other forever. That news - that simple...

Sermon for Sunday June 16th 2024. Manuscript available HERE Supplemental notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian faith is that God gives the growth - that ‘giving it to God’ is not crossing your fingers & hoping for the best, but in Jesus is a promise that he is at-work in your heart & in the world around you for his good & holy purposes of perfect love.

Sermon for Sunday, June 9th 2024 (Proper 5, Year B) Manuscript available HERE Supplemental Notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that God forgives all who come to him…and who keep coming back to him…and it is only by continually coming back to Jesus together that we can re-unite (with him and each-other) and remain united (with him and each-other).

The Good News is that Jesus only asks us to ‘put the word out there’ and let him do the rest: That Christianity is not a product to sell or have to cleverly present to people, but in lives of service to Christ lived out and shared in faith, its saving power will make itself known. Sermon for Proper 4, Year B (Sunday June 2nd, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Notes/Supplement available HERE

Sermon for Trinity Sunday, Year B (May 26th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Sermon supplementary notes available HERE "The Good News of the Christian Faith is that nothing is ‘too much’ for God; nothing can ‘beat God’ - not even Death."

Taken from the Anglican Books of Homilies & Adapted/Modernised by Fr. Luke Childs Preached on Pentecost Sunday (May 19th) 2024 Manuscript available HERE Companion notes available HERE

Manuscript available HERE Supplemental Notes available HERE Sermon for the Sunday after Ascension, Year B (May 12th, 2024)

Manuscript available HERE Sermon notes/supplement available HERE The Good News of Jesus Christ that we see during this Rogation period is that God is at-work to transform and heal and reconcile the whole world to him IN Jesus…physical and spiritual…right here, right now, where you are, with the people and places around you.

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B (April 24th, 2024). Manuscript available HERE Sermon notes/supplement available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that: God acted first - loved us first in Jesus - and invites us to respond to his love WITH love , then giving us the Holy Spirit to grow more-and-more in that love and into living the way he created us to live.

Sermon for the 4th Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday), Year B Manuscript available HERE Supplement/Notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that: We see in Jesus ‘The Shepherd’s Heart’ - the Heart of God Following Jesus GIVES US a moldable heart (heart of stone/flesh) that can BE shepherded Christian Living is then a life of BEING shepherded BY the shepherd, with OUR heart...

Sermon for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year B (April 14th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplement/Notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that God gives us a ‘New Song’ to sing in Jesus. A new and unique opportunity…that we all NEED… New & Eternal Life. A life of believing in and becoming a disciple of Jesus… a life that IS and IS BECOMING a living song of praise to Go...

Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter, Year B (April 7th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Sermon Supplement available HERE 'The Good News is that: GOD NEVER GIVES UP ON YOU. WE SEE THIS IN JESUS (God-Become-Man to SHOW US that) We can ONLY KNOW THIS by FOLLOWING JESUS & TAKING SERIOUSLY WHO HE SAYS HE IS & WHAT HE CAME TO DO. It is in Jesus [and ONLY Jesus] that we will ‘find ourselve...

Sermon for Easter Sunday, Year B, by Fr. Luke Childs

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Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday), Year B (March 17th, 2024) from Fr. Luke Childs ' Psalm 51 - the forgiveness and healing and cleansing (the Jubilee release) of the sin of David shows us that ANY and EVERY sin can be and is forgiven by Jesus’ Death on the Cross. That no sin is too big for God. That no-one is beyond redeeming.'

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B (March 10th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Sermon Supplement available HERE

Sermon preached on the Third Sunday of Lent, Year B (March 3rd, 2024) Sermon manuscript available HERE Sermon supplemental notes available HERE

Sermon manuscript available here Sermon summary (Parts I & 2) available here From the Second (Anglican) Book of Homilies. Preached on the Second Sunday of Lent, Year B (February 25th, 2024) via the North American Anglican Modernized & edited by Fr. Luke Childs

From the Second Book of Homilies as laid out by the North American Anglican and modernized by Fr. Luke Childs. Preached on the First Sunday of Lent, 2024 (February 18th). Manuscript available here

Sermon for Ash Wednesday, Year B (February 14th, 2024) from Fr. Luke Childs. Manuscript available HERE 'The WAY that God calls us all back to him to repent and be healed and saved from sin and death is through Jesus Christ. Through believing and trusting in his atonement on the Cross…so that God can look at our sins and OVERLOOK them, as they are covered in his own Blood. God stepped in where...