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Lectionary sermon 13 December 2020 (3B) on Isaiah 61:1-4,8-11 and John 1: 6-8,19-28
WHO SHARES THE LIGHT FROM YOUR DOORWAY? Like some here, I grew up in a rather simpler world where, at least in my house, we as children made most of our Christmas decorations. I guess for many in the wealthy … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaudete Sunday, Isaiah, John the Baptist, light
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Lectionary Sermon December 6 2020 (2B) on Mark 1, 1-8, Isaiah 40 1-11
Who Does the Prophet Address?Is it just me or is it that each year the process of getting ready for the coming of Christ at Christmas seems harder to discern? It is almost if the combined efforts of the world … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Progressive Sermons
Tagged Advent, Isaiah, John Spong, John the Baptist, Malachi
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Lectionary Sermon for 5 July 2020 on Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Are we Christ to the Different? A few years back the English Methodist minister and writer, Colin Morris, was delivering a broadcast talk on BBC’s Thought for the Day on Radio four. Listen and reflect on one comment he made. … Continue reading
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Tagged Colin Morris, Donald Tytler, John the Baptist, lockdown, Nimby
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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 Epiphany 2 January 19, 2020 on John 1:29-42
CHALLENGED BY THE “AHA” MOMENT I was recently asked an intriguing question by a Minister from another Church who was using his long service leave to find out the variety of ways different church congregations round New Zealand were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Guest, Epiphany, Flip Wilson, Henry Thoreau, John the Baptist, Marcus Borg
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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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Lectionary sermon for December 16 2018 Advent 3 C on Luke 3: 7 – 18
According to the story which I understand is one doing the rounds, a certain farmer was out the front of his house fixing a fence when a police car came up his drive. An officious policeman climbed out and announced … Continue reading
Lectionary Sermon for December 9 2018 Advent 2 C based on Luke 3: 1-6
I guess I am risking an argument when I say I am disappointed that Bible literalists and atheists sell the Bible short when they assume that the Bible was written with the intention of being read as all literally true. … Continue reading
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Tagged Church failure, fundamentalism, John the Baptist, Luke, myth, Russell Pregeant, Tiberius
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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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