As the new year begins, Fr Sam reflects on Epiphany as a story of insiders and outsiders, and God’s deliberate choice to reveal Himself beyond boundaries. Set against a world marked by fear, conflict, and division, this sermon explores how Jesus was born into political instability, poverty, and displacement, and how the first to worship Him were foreigners and immigrants.

Epiphany reveals a kingdom not built by exclusion, but by welcome. It reminds us that most Christians were once “outsiders” themselves welcomed only by grace and calls us to live that same grace today by building bridges, not walls, and making room for those the world is quick to reject.