Sermon, Pentecost 23A Wed Nov 4/Sun Nov 8, 2020 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe [...]
Sermon, All Saints Day, November 1, 2020, St Petri Revelation 7:9-17 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their [...]
Sermon, Reformation. Wed Oct 21/Sun Oct 25, 2020 Romans 3:19-28 19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being[a] will be justified in his sight, since through the [...]
Sermon, 20th A Pentecost, Wed October 14/Sun October 18, 2020 Exodus 33:1-3, 12-23 Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, “I will give it to your descendants.” 2 I will send an [...]
Sermon , Pentecost 19th A, Sunday Wednesday October 7/Sunday October 11, 2020 Exodus 32:1-14 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered round Aaron and said, ‘Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t [...]
Sermon, Wednesday October 2/Sunday October 4, 2020 Pentecost 18th A. Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 And God spoke all these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Go to Scenic Valley Podcast to listen..... Lots of people seem to be pondering what COVID has done to us and what shape it will leave us in. I read something this week that got me thinking about it in a 'big picture' way. Greg Sheridan wrote a piece in the [...]
I been given cause to reflect on Fathers this Father's Day from a different angle. It was from within the Black Lives Matter movement that has been renewed since the death of George Floyd. John Anderson, the former deputy Prime Minister, now social commentator and author, pointed to a problem that he and [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 11thA, Wed/Sun August 16, 2020 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 I ask then: did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah – how he [...]
