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Sermon for Maundy Thursday 2020

First Reading                                    Exodus 24:3-11 3Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 5 April 2020 – Palm Sunday

PROCESSIONAL GOSPEL                                 John 12:12-19 12The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 29 March 2020

First Reading                                        Ezekiel 37:1-14 1The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 2And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 22 March 2020

First Reading                              Isaiah 42:14-21 14For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. 15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 15 March 2020

First Reading                                  Exodus 17:1-7 1All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 8 March 2020

First Reading                                   Genesis 12:1-9 1Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 1 March 2020

First Reading                                   Genesis 3:1-21 1Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 23 February 2020

First Reading                                  Exodus 24:8-18 8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.” 9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10and they … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 16 February 2020

First Reading                        Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15{Moses said,} “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 9 February 2020

First Reading                                   Isaiah 58:3-9a  3“‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.4Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with … [Read more…]