'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow ... I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground'. The parable is so well-known, and so often interpreted in particular ways. Janet Morley encourages us to see another meaning in it.

‘We want communion, a world renewed, we hope against hope. With the God of history we want to make all things new’. We are beginning to look forward to Advent: Maranatha, come Lord, come. The service began with this expression of yearning from Brazilian young people. That links, however, to the theme of we live out our faith, questioning and searching, and Janet Morley picks up on that, continuing our series on stewardship.

The first sermon from our series on the reading the Bible.