Sermon Sunday November 19, 2017. Matthew 25:14-30 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A14-30&version=NIVUK 14 "For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15 to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 The one [...]
Sermon, 150th Anniversary Day Sunday November 12, 2017, St Petri 1 Peter 2:1-9 From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+2%3A1-9&version=NIVUK> John 10:22-30 From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10%3A22-30&version=NIVUK> The best of time or the Worst of Times? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, [...]
Sermon: All Saints, Sunday November 5, 2017 St Petri Psalm 34:1-10,22 1 John 3:1-3 We are God's children Matthew 5:1-12 The beatitudes Revelation 7:9-17 9 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 [...]
An Extraordinary Day of Blessing Some quite astonishing things happened today in the process of our decision re the proposal to redevelop our church building. Many people are disappointed but not at all devastated or feeling and sense of hopelessness. The Lord was at work among us. If we take him at his word, he [...]
Sermon, Sunday October 22, 2018, St Petri Matthew 22:15-22 15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance [...]
Sermon, Sunday October 15, 2017 Confirmation Rite, St Petri Philippians 4:1-9 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends! 2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. [...]
Sermon: St Matthew’s Day, Sunday September 24, 2017, St Petri Matthew 9:9-13 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. ‘Follow me,’ he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners [...]
Sermon, 15th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday September 17, 2017 Matthew 20:1-16 ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 ‘About nine in the morning [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 14A, Sunday September 10, 2017, St Petri Matthew 18:15-35 15 ‘If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 12A, Sunday September 3, 2017 St Petri. Pastor Adrian Kitson Matthew 16:21-28 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be [...]
