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Jesus Christ is the Same yesterday and Today and Forever HEBREWS 13.8 After preaching a New Year Sermon on this great verse last Sunday at Oxford Evangelical Presbyterian Church, in which I quickly addressed the need to make Hebrew tooo platonic and the importance of historical Jesus, I was reading a magnificent book book byContinue reading

“We have such a High Priest who serves (Grk.Leitourgos) in the sanctuary.” These words in Hebrews 8.2 are written of our Lord Jesus. Further, his worship/ministry/service, is said to be a superior Leitourgos (i.e. liturgy) according to verse 6. It is awesome to think that Jesus is the liturgy. It makes us cringe when weContinue reading “LITURGY ALIVE”

From my Rector’s Letter in the Parish Magazine JUNE 2009 This month sees our celebration of Trinity Sunday (7 June). The Threeness but Oneness of God is our great Christian distinctive. We regularly affirm our faith in One God, a Society of Three Persons. All who are baptised believers are baptised in the Name ofContinue reading “How then should we live?”

FROM THE PARISH NEWS SHEET for MAY 2009 Come Holy Spirit This month will see the celebration of Pentecost. Now of course the original Pentecost happened once but Acts record many other “outpourings” and throughout the history of the Church there has been a steady flow of “revivals”. The coming of the Holy Spirit inContinue reading “COME HOLY SPIRIT”

PARISH MAGAZINE EASTER 2007 Christus Victor is the title of a famous book first published in 1931 by a Swedish theologian, one Gustav Aulen. The main purpose of the book was to explore the three main understandings of the reasons why Jesus died and rose again. Jesus paid the price of our freedom, bore theContinue reading “CHRISTUS VICTOR”

Written for the Parish Magazine Easter 2004 EASTER HOPE Before and After Before the 11 Sept 2001 attack, the world may have been closing its eyes to many terrorist networks including their financial supporters. After the attack, they have been prime targets for concerted action. Before the attack we may still have been clinging toContinue reading “Before and After”

Resurgam  – from the Parish Magazine Easter  2009  In Charlotte Bronte’s wonderful novel, Jane Eyre (1847), this word is inscribed on Helen Burns’ gravestone. It is also (appropriately) the name of a very early submarine from the Victorian era and it is the word that sums up the “sure and certain hope” – Resurgam –Continue reading “Resurgam”

the notes of a sermon preached Summer 2019 in Oxford Behold and be Saved.  JOHN 1. 1-18 The person I was ordained together with had a PH.D in The numerology of the Book of Revelation!  Other amazing numbers in John include: in the Prologue (1.1-18) there are 496 syllables; in the Epilogue (21.1-25) there areContinue reading “Word Made Flesh”

A lightly revised Paper I delivered at the second Jonathan Edwards For the Church Conference, Durham UK in June 2016 (For my Paper at the First Jonathan Edwards For the Church Conference in Feb 2014 see the Book: Jonathan Edwards For The Church, ed. William M. Schweitzer, Welwyn Garden City, Evangelical Press, 2015 THE GLORYContinue reading “The Glory of God in the Transformation of Sinners”

From the Parish Newsletter Dec 2010 Christmas God by the Revd Roy Mellor I write this in the middle of November and it is positively my last Pastoral letter. I would like, again, to say a very big thank you to every one of you for all your kindnesses shown in the last few monthsContinue reading “Christmas God”