Sermon, 10th Pentecost, Sunday August 18, 2019 St Petri Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2 By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days. By faith [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 9th C, Sunday August 11, 2019. Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out [...]
Sermon, Sunday August 4, 2019. 8th Pentecost C Confirmation Day (10.30) Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life [...]
Sermon , 7th Sunday after Pentecost, July 28, 2019 Mark 10:35-45 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘we want you to do for us whatever we ask.’ 36 ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ he asked. 37 They replied, ‘Let one of us sit at your right and [...]
Sermon, Sunday July 21, 2019, 7th Sunday after Pentecost Luke 10:38–42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 4C Sunday July 7, 2019. St Petri Luke 10:1-11,16-20 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 3C, Sunday June 30, 2019. St Petri Luke 9:51–62 51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not [...]
Sermon, Pentecost 2C, June 23, 2019 Luke 8:26-39 26 They sailed to the region of the Gerasenes,[a] which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs. 28 When [...]
Sermon, Ascension Day, June 2, 2019, St Petri Acts 1:1–11 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself [...]
Sermon, Easter 5C, Sunday May 19, 2019 Revelation 21:1–6 Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed [...]
