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Temple Cowley United Reformed Church

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Articles & Sermons

6-part series on ‘Life in the Christian Community’

Dealing with Disagreement
Our needs can build community
Dealing with Money (the god Mammon)
The Ministry of all God’s people

‘A Theology of Food’ (Harvest Sermon). Adobe Acrobat file 398Kb) World hunger &c is a confessional issue : it’s about ‘faith’ not ‘works’, it’s about our ‘salvation’.

The Problem of Evil and a good God : the parable of the wheat and the weeds, July ’05. Adobe Acrobat file (21Kb)

Crime & (Unjust) Punishment. A sermon from Ephesians 2 looking at a twisted view of Atonement. (Adobe Acrobat file 56Kb)

The Homing Spirit (address for Collinwood Road URC. Adobe Acrobat, 441Kb)

(For a booklet-printing version of this please request by email)

‘Faith-based schools should form no part of a State education system’. Dick Wolff’s speech in favour of this motion at a high-profile public debate in November ‘05 (Acrobat 114Kb)

Christian Priorities : a short sermon on Matthew 6 : 24 - 34, May 25th 2008 (Acrobat file)

a Review of Richard Dawkins’ recent bestselling book The God Delusion

click here to view or download the review for reading on-screen (it’s 24 pages long . .)

click here to download it in a form you can print as a booklet

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture on ‘Religion & Law’ and the hostile reaction to it

Sermon given at Temple Cowley, Feb 17th 2008

A link to the Revd Dick Wolff’s blog, launched in February 2008 : click here

A look at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture on ‘Religion & Law’ and the hostile reaction to it. (Adobe Acrobat file) For version printing back to back as booklet, click here

A short sermon on Christian Unity for St James C of E, Cowley, 20th Jan ’08 : “Unity is forged, daily, at the foot of the Cross” Adobe Acrobat file

‘Pundits, Power & Politicians’ or ‘Jesus, President of the New World Order’ (meeting around the communion table). For a version that prints back-to-back as a booklet, click here.

Retribution versus Restoration. A response to a charge by a conservative evangelical who said that the liberal churches were poor at evangelism because they no longer believe in eternal punishment for the ‘unsaved’. June 2008, pdf