The Roman Road

A sermon on Romans 1 to 10 by Richard Keith on Sunday 8 January 2023. The ancient Romans are famous for a lot of things, including their monuments, their soldiers, and their roads. Their roads were built to such high engineering standards that they can still be seen...

Life in the Spirit

A sermon on Romans 8:1-17 by Richard Keith on Sunday 4 December 2022 There are three sides to every story. There’s my story. There’s your story. And there’s the truth. No single story can do justice to the whole truth. No matter how honest we are, we can only tell a...

The Continuing Struggle

A sermon on Romans 7:7-25 by Richard Keith on Sunday 27 November 2022 The marathon was a race especially invented for the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. It celebrates the legend of Pheidippides, a soldier fighting for the Greeks at the battle of Marathon, who...

Perfect Freedom

A sermon on Romans 6:15-23 by Richard Keith on Sunday 20 November 2022 The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years. In our great grandparents’ day, most people lived in a village and not in a city. Most people never travelled more than 10 kilometres from home in...

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

A sermon on Romans 6:1-14 by Richard Keith on 13 November 2022 I like to believe that there are no such things as stupid questions. We use questions to find out information, to clarify a point or to resolve a misunderstanding? What do you mean? we ask. Why did you do...

Life Through Christ

A sermon on Romans 5:12-21 by Rev Richard Keith on Sunday 6 November 2022 Part of growing up is learning that our actions and choices have consequences either for good or for bad, for ourselves and for others. If I go over the speed limit, I can be caught and forced...

The Father of us all

If I said to you that no number ending in 7 can be divided by 2, you’d have trouble proving me wrong. Seven can’t be divided by 2. Seventeen can’t be divided by 2. Twenty seven can’t be divided by 2 either. They are all odd numbers. In fact, you’ll never be able to...