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The Miracle of Inclusiveness (A sermon on Act 2:1-21)
It’s Pentecost again – one of the great feast days of the Christian church! No, it’s not the resurrection of Jesus that we are celebrating (which was last month) and it’s not even the birth of Jesus (which was last … Continue reading
Dreaming and Killing! (A sermon on Acts 11:1-18)
When I was a young Christian attending an evangelical youth group, we were expected to read our Bible every day, and we were encouraged to read it as if it was a direct message from God to us. I don’t … Continue reading
The Baptism of Jesus (A sermon on Luke 3:15-22)
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful … Continue reading
Teacher, What should I do (A sermon on Luke 3:7-18)
“Teacher, what should we do?” they said. John the Baptist had appeared in the wilderness looking as though he knew something other people didn’t know. He seemed to know that something was about to happen; something to do with an … Continue reading
Epiphany 2013. (A sermon on Matthew 2:1-12)
Welcome, friends, to 2013 and to what is in all truth my favorite celebration of the ecclesiastical year – namely, the feast of the Epiphany! I appreciate, of course, that, if church numbers are anything to go by, ‘Epiphany fever’ has not … Continue reading
Mary (A sermon on Luke 1:39-55)
39In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And … Continue reading
Water is thicker than Blood (A sermon on Luke 2:41-49)
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus … Continue reading
Christmas 2012 (A sermon on John 1:1-5,14)
“In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. Through him all things were made, and apart from him was not anything made that was made. … Continue reading
Tidings of Comfort and Joy … NOT! (A sermon on Luke 3:1-9)
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2 during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, … Continue reading
