Category Archives: Sermons
February 13, 2013 – Ash Wednesday
No recording is available for this sermon. Shakespeare wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.” And in the gospel reading today from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is using that same …
February 10, 2013 – Transfiguration – 2013
To listen to the recording, click here: Transfiguration 2013 Yesterday morning, I was sitting by the woodstove, looking out into the back yard at the new snow. The sun was shining down on all that pure, dazzling whiteness, and it was reflected in thousands of little points of light as the snow caught its rays. …
February 3, 2013 – Epiphany 4 Enraged by Grace
To listen to this sermon, click here: Enraged by Grace There is an expression that is sometimes used about large groups of people. We say that a crowd is “getting ugly”. What we mean is that the collective mood of the crowd is growing into something frightening and dangerous. Sometimes you might have felt it …
January 20, 2013 – Epiphany 2, Treasure in Jars of Stone
To listen to the sermon, click here: Treasure in Jars of Stone One thing that happens as we grow older is that we gain a new perspective on things. If you had written the story of your life in your 20’s or 30’s, when you were still in the thick of raising a family and …
January 13, 2013 – Epiphany 1 The First Baptism
To listen to this sermon, click here: The First Baptism The Hebrew way of thinking about time, which is what we meet in the Bible, wasn’t about a linear progression the way that we tend to view time: this happened, and then this, and then this. It was a much more organic way of thinking, …
January 6, 2013 – Epiphany, The Mystery of the Magi
To listen to this sermon, click here: The Mystery of the Magi Today is the very last day of the Christmas season. All the Christmas stories are so familiar to us; that’s one thing that makes them special to us – they’re like old friends, the stories of Mary and Joseph, the angels and the …
December 30, 2012 – Christmas 1 – Words for Children
There is no text available for this sermon, but to listen to it click here: The Word for Children
December 23, 2012 – Advent 4, He is our Peace
To listen to the recorded version, click here: He is our Peace When you’re young, it’s really hard sometimes to wait for good things like Christmas. There are all these things you have to put up with in the meantime. In our household the approach of Christmas often meant that I went on what my …
December 16, 2012 – Advent 3 Can He Restore What the Darkness Has Taken?
For the recorded version, click here: Can He Restore What the Darkness Has Taken? This week the darkness of the world around us has come particularly close to us. We know that we live in a world where innocent people suffer violence every day, even every moment. We know that right now there is warfare …
December 9, 2012 – Advent 2, Out, Damned Spot!
To listen to the recording, click here: Out Damned Spot! “Who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap…and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver…Then the offering of Judah and …
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