Sermon, Epiphany 6A, Sunday February 16, 2020 Matthew 5:25-37 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It [...]
Sermon, Epiphany 5A, Sunday February 9, 2020. Spicy Light Matthew 5:13-16 13 ‘You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. 14 ‘You are the light of the world. A town [...]
Sermon, February 2nd, 2020, St Petri. Epiphany 4A Micah 6:1-8 Listen to what the Lord says: ‘Stand up, plead my case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say. 2 ‘Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel. 3 ‘My [...]
Sermon , Sunday January 5th, 2020, Christmas 2A John 1: 10-18 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did [...]
Sermon, Christmas 2A, Sunday December 29, 2019 Hebrews 2:10-18 10 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the [...]
Sermon, Christmas Day, 2019, St Petri. Isaiah 62:6-12 6 I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, 7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. 8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand [...]
Christmas Eve Homily , 2019, St Petri After viewing Come Away in a Manger – Wise Man https://skitguys.com/videos/away-in-a-manger Matthew 2:1-22 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 [...]
Sermon , Advent 4A, Sunday December 22, 2019 , St Petri Isaiah 7:10-16 When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it. 2 Now the house of David was told, ‘Aram has allied itself with[a] Ephraim’; so [...]
Sermon, Advent 3A, Sunday December 15, 2019, St Petri After viewing ‘Away in a Manger’ – Joseph https://skitguys.com/videos/away-in-a-manger Matthew 11:2-11 2 When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3 to ask him, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?’ 4 Jesus replied, ‘Go back [...]
Sermon, Sunday December 8, 2019 Advent 2A Matthew 3:1-12 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: ‘A voice of one calling in the wilderness, “Prepare the way for the Lord, [...]
