The Face that is Us
Happy and Blessed Palm Sunday to you who read this. A glorious day, despite the fact that most of us spent it at home, only with our thoughts and memories […]
Category: Sermon
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New Beginnings
“I believe, help my unbelief!” Those could be our words every day, especially in this time of daily fear and uncertainty. Is today the day that I will begin showing […]
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Where Distance Disappears
One member of our church told me the other day that she saw this time of social distancing as a time of retreat with herself. Isn’t that a wonderful way […]
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Faith for others
Indeed, which is easier to say? Your sins are forgiven? Or, Rise, take up your stretcher and walk? (Mark 2:1-12) It’s an open, rhetorical question. Jesus does not answer it. […]
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Take Lent “lentement”
In 2nd Peter chapter 3 we read: But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years […]
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No Goats Here
Here is a parable Jesus did not speak – at least not in the Gospels. But which he could have spoken. I came upon it in a book I’ve had […]
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Pre-Lenten Lessons
Jesus was frequently criticised for hanging out with prostitutes, tax collectors and other sinners. He was never criticised for going to dinner in the homes of Pharisees – which he […]
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The mission of the wounded healer
One word and one word only best describes the attitude of the Pharisee in the parable we hear today. One word: contempt. The Pharisee had nothing but contempt for the […]
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With the inner eye
February 2nd is the feast of The Meeting of the Lord – also known as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. But it was a meeting; a meeting between […]
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Jesus Looked
Do you ever feel lost? That your life is lacking in something important, maybe lacking meaning or purpose? You feel separated from God? Then today’s reading from the Gospel of […]