Reflections on life and faith in a changing world.
Referencing Acts 10.34-43, Luke 24.1-12.A talk for Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025. The absence of God "is like a presence”, writes R. S. Thomas. What might this mean for us, living in an era of absence, where, with things lacking in society which we feel should be there, our world seems eerie?Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing Exodus 1.8-2.10, Luke 2.33-35.A talk for Mothering Sunday, 30 March 2025. Our remarkable scriptures privilege and celebrate the outsiders: like the subversive midwives, the defiant mother and sister, the sympathetic princess, united by their surreptitious risk-taking actions to save a baby. The pharaohs and presidents, the CEOs and chancellors, will go on doing what they have always done, drawing ever-more power and wealth to themselves and their caste at a cost to the people and the planet. But through learning to listen to the stories of those at the edges facing abandonment or drowning, those at the brink of disaster, we get to know the voice of God, and understand his worldview, for he so often speaks through and for such people. In scripture, and in life today. This people's history is a story of beauty bubbling up from beneath.Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing Psalm 91.1-11, Luke 4.1-13.A talk for The First Sunday of Lent, 9 March 2025. "...Then the devil appeared at a supermarket checkout, and said to the customers purchasing processed food, ‘If you throw yourself wholeheartedly into consuming food full of additives, fat, sugar, and calories, you have nothing to fear, for the angels of God will protect you from cancer, heart disease, obesity and tooth decay.' And they said, ‘I believe you, here's my loyalty card'.The three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness are the very same temptations which we succumb to today..."Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing 2 Corinthians 3.12-4.2, Luke 9.28-43.A talk for The Sunday Next Before Lent, 2 March 2025. Esther Ghey says that the practice of mindfulness saved her. Originally rooted in Buddhist mediation, mindfulness is now popularly attached to no religion in particular. It'd say that it's not unlike the Christian, Lenten, practice of taking oneself off for a time to quietly be in the moment, to listen for the voice of God, to lift one's face to the face of God.Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing Revelation 4, Luke 8.22-25.A talk for The Second Sunday Before Lent, 23 February 2025. With so much apocalyptic speech in our public realm stirring up agitation today, it's vital we grasp that ‘The Christian apocalypse does not indicate the end of the world in a mighty conflagration called Armageddon, nor the resettling of the land of Israel as Zionists would have it. On the contrary', Revelation shows us that all the storms of empires will pass away, brought ultimately to a state of calm by the Lamb of God who holds the world in love.Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing 1 Corinthians 15.12-20, Luke 6.17-26A talk for The Third Sunday Before Lent, 16 February 2025. Sometimes in our history dangerous, hateful, words are spoken about the poor, the homeless, and the outsider; sometimes we hear scripture being ‘weaponised and abused' to justify bigotry and hatred and violence against the most vulnerable. We hear it more and more today, and the more we hear it, the more we must challenge and oppose it.Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing Hebrews 2.14-18, Luke 2.22-40. On this stage the performers give every sign of being odious human beings, who flaunt the odiousness, knowing that it maddens their opponents and electrifies their cult. What they do as presidents and primates can cause misery for millions of people; and they seem to exult in the distaste they provoke, they revel in the spectacle in which they are the star players. Which is all the more reason for us to give thanks for those things which God does offstage. To be grateful for the almost unnoticed intrusions into our daily lives, divine interruptions, which we may realise in time, change everything. A talk for the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 2 February 2025. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Sheppard and Worlock came to be known as ‘fish and chips' because they were always found together and in the newspaper. A celebration of The Body of Christ, disabled and divine, still alive and active in the world today. Referencing 1 Corinthians 12.12-31a, Luke 4.14-21. A talk for the Church Anniversary service at the end of The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Waterloo United Free Church, The Third Sunday of Epiphany, 26 January 2025. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Drawing on the life of Jimmy Carter, Pope Francis' 2025 Jubilee of Hope declaration, and in debt to Howard Thurman's 'Jesus and the Dispossessed', a journey with those who travel in search of the light. Referencing Isaiah 60.1-6, Matthew 2.1-12. A talk for The FirEpiphany, 5 January 2025. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Luke's story of the 12-year-old Jesus in the temple: this is the story of his bar mitzvah: his becoming an adult who 'increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favour'. New Year is an opportunity for us to reflect, take stock, of everything in our lives. And to recommit to those things which sustain and help us be the best versions of ourselves. Referencing Colossians 3.12-17, Luke 2.41-52. A talk for The First Sunday of Christmas, 29 December 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
This is the special hour in our year... an hour to contemplate this child, and to offer him the hopes and fears of all our years. Referencing Isaiah 9.2-7, Luke 2.1-14. A talk for Christmas Eve, midnight, 24 December 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Luke does his Jesus family history research. It reveals that it's not, after all, Caesar Augustus who is 'Son of God'. But Jesus... and us... Referencing Malachi 3.1-4, Luke 3.1-6. A talk for The Second Sunday of Advent, 8 December 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
'There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress... ‘Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near,' he said. But how can we raise our heads with the weight of the world on our shoulders? Referencing Jeremiah 33.14-16, Luke 21.25-36 A talk for Advent Sunday 1 December 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Trouble in Bethlehem: Jesus calls it "the birth pangs of the new beginning" - and we are called to be midwives of a new kingdom in which war and its consequences - famines, disease - will be no more. Referencing Hebrews 10.11-25, Mark 13.1-8. A talk for the Second Sunday before Advent, 17 November 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Referencing Hebrews 9.24-28, Mark 1.14-20 demands: "When I think about God I think of a person who would never murder or kill anyone. But when you think about it you wonder, because wasn't it God who swept the angel of death over Egypt? It makes you think doesn't it? Is God against it or is he not? I mean what had the boys done to die? It was the Pharaoh wasn't it? Now do you realise how little we know about God? A talk for Remembrance Sunday, 10 November 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
On this All Saints Day we recall all those ghosts, saints, and souls we hold in blessed memory... from Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac to The Wesley Brothers and The Isley Brothers. A talk for All Saints Sunday, 3 November 2024. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Why call Jesus names he never used of himself? Kings, and Messiahs, and Lords, are people distant from us, with whom we have little common ground. But the Son of Man is a Human One who suffers with everyone else who suffers; his divine power works totally unlike and in opposition to the ways of Kings, Messiahs, and Lords, the worldly structures and powers of death. A talk for The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, 15 September 2024. Referencing James 3.1-12, Mark 8.27-38. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Think Veganism; or Jeremy Clarkson. When it comes to overheated debates about food, Jesus invites us to turn down the temperature. It's the way we treat each other that matters, whatever our differences. It's a concern we may share as we reflect on how poor are the quality of our public conversations these days. A talk for The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, 1 September 2024. Referencing James 1.17-27, Mark 7.1-8, 14, 15, 17-23. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
The celebrated hymn-writer The Rt Revd Timothy Dudley-Smith, died this week. A celebration of what he called the 'functional art' of hymn writing. A talk for The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 18 August 2024. Referencing Ephesians 5.15-20. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
We are ‘angelic demons': sensing that we are damaged because we've eaten too much of the fruit of the world's fears and hatreds: we are hungry for the bread of life to feed us. A talk for The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, 11 August 2024. Referencing Ephesians 4.25 - 5.2, Psalm 130, John 6.35, 41-51. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Learning from Anne Scargill's encounter with a lovely woman who had got her facts all wrong about Arthur. A talk for The Seventh Sunday after Trinity, 14 July 2024. Referencing Amos 7.7-15, Mark 6.14-29, and a story from Ian Clayton, Anne Scargill, Betty Cook, Anne & Betty: United By The Struggle. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Throughout scripture, God speaks directly to exiled and oppressed peoples in the words which Bob Marley used in his freedom anthem, ‘Get up, stand up, Stand up for your right; Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.' A talk for The Sixth Sunday after Trinity, 7 July 2024. Referencing Ezekiel 2.1-5, Mark 6.1-13. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
That the “last will be first” and the “least will be greatest” are not clumsy statements of class war. They are affirmations of God's truth that the healing of the whole body politic, the healing of us all, will come when society attends first to the needs of the poorest. Lessons in equity from Mark's gospel and Taylor Swift. A talk for The Fifth Sunday after Trinity, 30 June 2024. Referencing Psalm 30, Mark 5.21-43. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Temple, or Church: “Anger is the force that protects that which is loved.” If our anger with it expresses our deeper love for the institution, then it might just help to save it. A talk for The Third Sunday of Lent, 3 March 2024. Referencing Exodus 20.1-17, John 2.13-22. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
"We have beautiful crosses on our churches, in our lapels and around our necks," preached the late evangelist Billy Graham. "And yet the Bible says the cross is a stumbling block, an offence, a scandal among men, a base and despised thing.” Graham was a fine example of how to ‘take up one's cross and follow Jesus'. A talk for The Second Sunday of Lent, 25 February 2024. Referencing Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16, Mark 8.27-38. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
The ‘bogus baptism' debate is a testing feature of the volatile world in which we live. Taking inspiration from the slaves and their Spiritual songs, can we follow Jesus out from the wilderness of this world into the dawning of a whole new age? A talk for The First Sunday of Lent, 18 February 2024. Referencing Genesis 9.8-17, Mark 1.9-15. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
What (or who) are you following at the moment? We are all followers. An exploration of discipleship and where it might take us. A talk for The Second Sunday before Lent, 4 February 2024. Referencing Proverbs 8, John 1.1-14. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Who will bring consolation to Israel? It's an age-old question with relevance to us all. Will the answer be left solely those who use force of violence, or are there other traditions of Israel which we can draw on? A talk for The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas), with Holocaust Memorial Day, 28 January 2024. Referencing Hebrews 2.14-18, Luke 2.22-40. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
New Year is a good time for pondering. For going over what has been, and considering what is to come. It's a good time for re-setting ourselves if we think that life has bent us out of shape. It's a good time for putting life in context, and remembering the larger reality which may otherwise be crowded out. A talk for The First Sunday of Christmas, 31 December 2023. Referencing Isaiah 61.10 - 62.3, Luke 2.15-21. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Is 'Peace on earth' achievable? Christmas gives us an opportunity to hone our peacemaking skills - in those rooms and around those tables where we are placed, sometimes uncomfortably, alongside people we may see only once a year - maybe some of whom, if we were honest, we'd prefer to see even less often. If we admit to ourselves our reluctance to let old wounds heal, or our strategies of avoidance of people we disagree with, or of sidestepping uncomfortable conversations, then we are at the start of building peace on earth. For the beginning of making peace from within is to ask ourselves why we act that way, and prayerfully, carefully, begin to work out what we might be able to do to change. A talk for Christmas Eve, 24 December 2023. Referencing Titus 2.11-14, Luke 2.1-20. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
"Among you stands one whom you do not know" - said the Baptist of Jesus; and he hardly knew Jesus himself. How Jesus' mission leaves out all traces of vengeance and nationalism, though throughout history, religion has succumbed to what Ivan Illich describes as ‘the troubled legacy of Christendom ... the terrible perversion that comes of love and truth when these are underwritten by institutional power.' A talk for The Third Sunday of Advent, 17 December 2023. Referencing Isaiah 61.1-11, John 1.6-8, 19-28. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
We come to worship at Advent, and these are the first words we hear: ‘Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.' After a time of suffering and pain, the most uncomfortable of times, when the grass has withered from the earth, the world's flower has faded, God wants us to know that he is coming to create new beginnings. And, to tell the world that this good news is coming, God is commissioning his messengers. Today we hear from Isaiah and from Mark. The book of Isaiah and the Gospel of Mark were written in, and describe, deeply uncomfortable times. They are both books of prophecy, for, like Isaiah, Jesus was a great prophet of his time. A talk for The Second Sunday of Advent, 10 December 2023. Referencing Isaiah 40.1-11, Mark 1.1-8. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
When Jesus tells his disciples to ‘Keep awake', ‘Watch and pray', he's not telling us to bunker down and wait for the apocalypse. He's giving us the tools by which we can face the traumas of life with faith, the challenges of the world with hope; by which we can flourish and help others to flourish. A talk for The First Sunday of Advent, 3 December 2023. Referencing Isaiah 64.1-9, Mark 13.24-37. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
This Parable of the Man who Liked to Dig is an upside-down version of the story which usually gets called the Parable of the Talents. It invites us to ask the question, what if this parable is about being happy not to spend your life striving for wealth and prestige? A talk for The Second Sunday before Advent, 19 November 2023. Referencing Zephaniah 1.7,12-18, Psalm 90.1-12, Matthew 25.14-30. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Any person determined to live in peace in this world must work out how to be ready in mind and body to act peaceably in every situation: to be prepared to develop the self-discipline to obey peaceful instincts over aggressive ones, to be ready to do the thing which unites, not divides; to be able to do the thing which generates love, not fear. All this requires a firmness of mind and heart, an absolute commitment of time and effort and energy: a strength of character which challenges the lazy criticism that pacifism is a form of weakness. Far from it. A talk for Remembrance Sunday, 12 November 2023. Referencing Wisdom of Solomon 6.12-20, Matthew 25.1-13. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
"For me, the other side, the enemy, is not the Palestinian people. For me the struggle is not between Palestinians and Israelis, nor between Jews and Arabs. The fight is between those who seek peace and those who seek war. My people are those who seek peace. My sisters are the bereaved mothers, Israeli and Palestinian, who live in Israel and in Gaza and in the refugee camps. My brothers are the fathers who try to defend their children from the cruel occupation, and are, as I was, unsuccessful in doing so. Although we were born into a different history and speak different tongues there is more that unites us than that which divides us." - Nurit Peled-Elhanan, whose daughter Smadar died in a suicide bombing in 1997. A talk for the First Sunday before Advent, 5 November 2023. Referencing Micah 3.5-12, Matthew 24.1-14 Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Moses died by the kiss of God. Where our bible tells us that ‘Moses died … at the Lord's command', Hebrew scholars teach that the literal translation is that ‘Moses died by the mouth of the Lord'. His last breath was drawn while being gently kissed by a loving God. It was a peaceful transition from life to death. Moses' final moments were peaceful because he stopped fighting God's judgement. He had to let go of his dream to lead the people into the Promised Land. He had to be reconciled to his own powerlessness. Moses died by the kiss of God: meaning that he came to accept that he would find peace, with the knowledge that he had finished his life's work and that others would continue what he started. A talk for the Last Sunday after Trinity, 29 October 2023. Remembering Bill Kenwright and Bobby Charlton. Referencing Deuteronomy 34.1-12, Matthew 22.34-46 Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
We are reading Exodus at a time of elevated crisis in the Middle East; and in a conflict driven by religious ideologies of different kinds - Zionism and Islamism clashing - all these themes of Exodus are right there on the surface: Can the scared and suffering ones make it over the border? Which of the warring factions will win control of the land? And where is God to be found in this struggle? It is all taking place a long way from here; but in another sense it couldn't be closer; for the Christian Church is the ‘Israel of God'; we identify with Her closely; on some meaningful level the actions and the fate of the people of Israel are inseparable from our own. Though troubled and concerned, we may feel powerless to do anything about what's happening in the Middle East. But how we respond to it, and how we choose to live towards our neighbours in our place, in our time, we trust is part of the kingdom of God which embraces us all. A talk for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, 22 October 2023. Referencing Exodus 33.12-23, Matthew 22.15-22 Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Is this your God, O Israel: the enraged king, violent and vengeful towards those who disobey him, who will burn down whole cities in his anger; or is it the one who is expelled with the outcasts, and who bears the punishment of the world with grace? Is this your God, O Israel: the golden idol you create, expecting it to make you whole, who you trust to remove your suffering, who you think will give you the truth; or is it the one who embraces suffering with you, who helps you face up to your unknowing, and to fully accept the difficulties of existence? A talk for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, 15 October 2023. Referencing Exodus 32.1-14, Matthew 22.1-14 Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
God loves soil, says the writer Norman Wirzba. "God is the first, best, and essential gardener of the world." Humankind has long assumed that what is good for us is also good for the world; but where pride and greed are the primary measures of what is good, this assumption leads to disaster. What happens when we put soil and soul together, and live “by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ... Making the effort to know the world and to learn what is good for it. Co-operating in its processes, and yielding to its limits.” [Wendell Berry]? A talk for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, 16 July 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Stephen Barton writes that "Spirituality.... has to do with the sense of the divine presence and living in the light of that presence." A meditation on unburdening. A talk for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, 9 July 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
According to Leonard Cohen, his song called The Story of Isaac “is about those who would sacrifice one generation on behalf of another”. Is the voice he hears through the story of Abraham and Isaac the one we also hear: "You who build these altars now / to sacrifice these children, / you must not do it anymore." A talk for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity, 2 July 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Jesus distanced himself from his society's so-called family values. He would not make an idol of the family, as the rest of his society had. Time and time again in the gospels we hear him make statements like these incendiary remarks: ‘Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.' He made his point strongly in order to ensure it was heard - that whilst there will always be a place for the family in the future of God's people, we must not make an idol of it, and we must be prepared to reshape our relationship with it, in the light of the values of God's kingdom. A talk for the Third Sunday after Trinity, 25 June 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Michael Rosen says that ‘Anxiety, surprise, absurdity and language-play all offer us a rich source for humour'. Anxiety, surprise, absurdity and language-play: we find each of these in the story of Sarah: The anxiety of being told to leave the place where you've lived your whole life, to start a journey to some unknown land, however flowing with milk and honey it was promised to be. The surprise - and that's an understatement - of being told that after a lifetime of carrying nothing but the shame of barrenness, she would bear a child. The absurdity of falling pregnant in her nineties to a husband turning 100. And the language-play: ‘God has brought laughter for me'. That's funny from Sarah, it's a beautiful joke, naming her child laughter, remembering how she first laughed cynically at God's promise, and now she found herself giggling, chortling, joyfully dancing with glee, at that absurd promise having been fulfilled. It is God's delight to bring laughter - to those least expecting it. A talk for the Second Sunday after Trinity, 18 June 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
God's people have always been missionaries; always been builders. In our area (where today we walk from St Matthew's Church Keasden to Newby Methodist Chapel in celebration of their 150th anniversaries) farmers, labourers, landed families, lords: each in their own way, and often working together, have time and again 'built their altars to the Lord'. A talk for the First Sunday after Trinity, 11 June 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Life teaches us to wait with patience; though we wait impatiently too. Life teaches us to wait with confidence; but nerves and fears can overcome us in our waiting. Life teaches us to wait in hope; but sometimes we give in to the prevailing spirit of the world which wants us to give up and give in to the lie that the way things are, are the way they always will be: this, I suggest, is waiting without the Lord. So, what does ‘waiting for the Lord' mean? If those who wait for the Lord renew their strength, and mount up with wings like eagles, if they run and not be weary, if they walk and not faint, then we should consider this question deeply and often, for it will help us in our times of waiting. A talk for Trinity Sunday, 4 June 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
If we are dreaming of a good future for God's church, then we needn't necessarily embrace Pentecostalism; but we must embrace the Spirit of Pentecost. When we call on the name of the Lord we shall be saved. When we pray, ‘Come, Holy Spirit', God will come. Each morning that we open ourselves afresh to the the Holy Spirit, begins a good day in the journey of faith we share with so many different, wonderful, others, here and across the world. A talk for Pentecost, 28 May 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
The followers of Jesus are haunted by a vision of all his earthly promises being fulfilled. The more we devote ourselves to this wonderful vision, the more it comes to life; and this awakening is enabled by One who the Church calls a 'ghost'... a Holy Ghost... A talk for the Sunday after Ascension, 21 May 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks.
Our culture ‘sacrifices' those who are deemed disposable: the sick, the lost and the lame, the unproductive, the unemployed, the foreigner. We know how these are always the first to be abandoned in a society which prioritises private gain over public well-being. Isn't it a theme of our times that those who are struggling the most, are repeatedly told that they must sacrifice even more, for the greater good of all? We hear privileged economists telling struggling workers ‘to accept that they're worse off' and to stop demanding pay rises, hypocritically preaching that ‘we all have to take our share'. And we find ourselves complicit in this system where those we undervalue are forced into punishing sacrifices for the sake of our comfort and ease - like Bangladeshi workers producing clothes in squalid factories for less than a dollar a day, so that we can buy them at bargain prices. If we accept that the economists are today's High Priests, we can see how universal was Jesus' message at the Sheep Gate. Wherever a society's victims are told by its gatekeepers, 'There is no alternative', 'There is only one way', ‘There is only one gate', here comes Jesus, saying, no, there are other ways to live. For 'I am the gate for the sheep. ... Whoever enters by me will be saved'. A talk for The Fourth Sunday of Easter, 30 April 2023. Referencing Acts 2.42-47, John 10.1-10 . Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks
The story of the two disciples on the Emmaus Road, and all the other stories of Jesus' resurrection appearances show us that our God is a God of surprises: always seeking to surprise us with joy. A talk for The Third Sunday of Easter, 23 April 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks
Nature, scripture and experience teach us that death shall have no dominion. Or in other words the power of death is too weak to overcome us; the effect of death is not enough to defeat us; there are greater and brighter powers at work in the world and in the heavens than death. Death shall not dominate us. This is the meaning of eternal life. A talk for The Second Sunday of Easter, 16 April 2023. Find the text to this and all my talks at bit.ly/johndavies-talks
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