Tristan Sherwin

ONE | TAPESTRY (EPH. 3:1-13) 'The church is, and is supposed to be, God's declaration over every power that delights in division.'

DEDICATION SERVICE | FOLLOW ME

UTTER ... HOPE (MARANA THA, REV. 22:20) 'Some people walk about with their head in the clouds. Others walk about with their head in the sand. The church is called to be neither. Not the fanaticism of those who have mentally left the planet, nor the complacency of those buried in the present age. But a people who live fully and faithfully in the present—with hearts genuinely oriented toward the future.'

EASTER | SO WHAT? 'The same road they had walked in sorrow, was the very same road they now hot footed back down with hope.'

UTTER ... ARROGANCE? (THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX COLLECTOR, LK. 18:9-14) "Prayer was never meant to be a place where we bring our comparisons to God. Prayer is where our comparisons are meant to die."

BAPTISM | JELLY MOULDS (1 PET. 3:18-22) 'The question beneath this moment is: ‘Whose are we?’ Whose verdict defines us? Whose applause do we live for? Whose image do we carry? Which mould is shaping our life?'

THE OLD WOMAN & THE NIGHT WIND 'There once lived an old woman in a cave high up on a mountainside, overlooking a valley floor where a small village lay.'

UTTER ... PAIN (JABEZ) 'Jabez wants God’s presence to be with him in such a way that, whenever people encounter him, they encounter the handprint of God’s way, not the fist-print of human ambition.'

Advent Week 4: Light

CHRISTMAS 2025 | EMPTY WRAPPERS 'Each year at Christmas, a mysterious visitor comes to our house—always arriving at the exact moment the tub of Christmas chocolates is opened.'

CHRISTMAS 2025 | THE CHILD AND THE DRAGON 'The quiet, unimpressive scenes of the Nativity (and up to the Resurrection) are what the cosmic battle of Revelation 12 looked like in history.'

Advent Week 3: Joy

Advent Week 2: Peace

Advent Week 1: Hope

UTTER ... DESPAIR (PS. 77) 'Lament, complaint, and even argument are not taboo. Venting to God is not sin — it is faith. Scripture doesn’t rebuke this. It records it. It honours it. It’s still the sound of prayer.'

UTTER . . . (ROM. 8:26-27) 'Prayer, then, is not the achievement of perfect expression but the surrender to divine presence.'

FREE TO GOD | THE CROSS IN A FRACTURED WORLD (GAL. 6:11-18) 'Jesus does not use the cross as a weapon of supremacy, a marker of dominance, but as a monument of sacrificial love, not a weapon of coercion, but a tree of communion with all those who have fallen short of the standard.'