Sermon, Sunday March 16, 2016. Lent 5C Showing Promise V: Remembering to Forget Isaiah 43:16-21 Forget what happened long ago! Don’t think about the past. 19 I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams[a] in thirsty lands. 20 Every wild animal honours me, even jackals[b] and owls. I [...]
Sermon, Sunday March 6th, 2016. Lent 4C Showing Promise IV – Covenant Fellowship Joshua 5:9-12 9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[a] to this day. 10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while [...]
Sermon, Lent 3C St Petri Isaiah 55:1-10 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour on what does not satisfy? Listen, [...]
Sermon Lent 2C, Sunday February 21, 2016. Genesis 15, 1-12, 17,18. Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 Luke 13:31-35 Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have [...]
Sermon Lent 1C, February 14, 2016, St Petri SHOWING PROMISE I: Thankful and Responsive Deuteronomy 26:1-11 When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2 take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce [...]
Sermon, Sunday February 7, 2016. Transfiguration Day, St Petri Luke 9:28-36, 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing [...]
Sermon, Epiphany 4C Sunday January 31st, 2016 St Petri Jeremiah 1:4-10 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." Living this Christian life can sure seem like climbing big mountains – like that Little Red [...]
Lay Sermon, Epiphany 2C, St Petri 17 January, 2016. New Wine John 2: 1-11 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no [...]
Sermon Sunday January 10, 2016 St Petri Star Words Matthew 2:1-12 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and [...]
