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Lectionary Sermon, January 26 2020 on Matthew 4:12-23 (Epiphany 3)
DANGER AHEAD! Although there is no shortage of examples of potential danger in the modern world, there are some situations where unnecessary risk is just plain daft. When we read of a teenager stepping over the warning barrier to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Caperaum, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist, Kierkegaard, Risk for others, self-promotion
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Lectionary sermon for 15 December 2019 (Advent 3 A) on Matthew 11:2-11
One significant contrast between many modern Christians and what we know of New Testament stories of followers of Jesus is that all too often these days the emphasis has become centred on what happens in acts of Church worship? The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonhoeffer, Christan response, Gaudete Sunday, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist
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Alternative Good Friday Sermon for 19 April 2019 on Luke 23: 32 – 46
Dorothy Sayers once raised the question as to why so many of us react with horror when a cat catches a bird, yet we seem quite unmoved when the infinitely worse horror of the crucifixion is paraded before us in … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Sayers, forgiveness, Herod Antipas, symbolism, the Temple curtain
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Lectionary Sermon for 15 July 2018 on Mark 6: 14 – 29
Don’t Talk of Love…Show Me! Recently I was reading through some back issues of the Listener and I came across a quote that went something like: “I always load up with carbs each day just is case I have to … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Ford, Herod, Herod Antipas, Herodias, Jeshimon, John the Baptist, Machaerus
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Lectionary Sermon for 22 January 2017 on Matthew 4:12-23
Knowingly putting yourself at risk is not a typical response to known danger. But that is only half one point at issue in today’s reading. Putting the issue another way, there is considerable difference in the actions of the young … Continue reading
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Tagged Capernaum, Herod Antipas, Kiekegaard, lions den
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Lectionary sermon 11 December 2016 (Advent 3 A) on Matthew 11:2-11
To me the biggest contrast between modern Christians and the earliest stories of followers of Jesus is that all too often these days the emphasis has become centred on what happens in acts of Church worship. This seems far removed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonhoeffer, Gaudete Sunday, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist, Machaerus, Tiberius
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Lectionary Sermon for 22 January 2017 on Matthew 4:12-23
Knowingly putting yourself at risk is not a typical response to known danger. But that is only half one point at issue in today’s reading. Putting the issue another way, there is considerable difference in the actions of the young … Continue reading
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Tagged anachoresin, call to mission, Capernaum, Herod Antipas, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Kierkegaard, the Lions’ den
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Lectionary sermon for 11 December 2016 (Advent 3 A) on Matthew 11:2-11
To me the biggest contrast between modern Christians and the earliest stories of followers of Jesus is that all too often these days the emphasis has become centred on what happens in acts of Church worship. This seems far removed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Cosby, Caesar Augustus, Gaudete Sunday, Herod Antipas, Herodias, Jim Jones, John the Baptist, Machaerus, Poverty line, Tiberius
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Lectionary Sermon for 24 February 2013 (Lent 2) on Luke 13: 31 – 35
Let’s see. Here we have the living example of wisdom and kindness, Jesus, going around helping the poor and the rejected and sick and the lame and the blind and yet we are being in effect told that, far from … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Herod Antipas, Owen Glenn, Tetrarch, the fox, the mother hen, the Salvation Army, Tiberius
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A Lectionary Sermon for December 9 2012 Advent 2 C based on Luke 3: 1-6
Our understanding of the emerging story of Jesus and the early Church is greatly enhanced by the scholarship of the author of the gospel of Luke, who many also understand to be the author of the Book of Acts. Yet … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist, Repentance, Russell Pregeant, the Messiah, Tiberius
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