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Lenten Service Sermon for 1 March 2015

Questioned For Christ – A Question of Conviction As I mentioned last week, each Sunday afternoon, during this Lenten season, I’ll start the Homily out by asking the same question. If you were arrested today for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? With an ever increasing emphasis toward Humanism and … [Read more…]

Sermon for 1 March 2015

FIRST READING Genesis 17:1–7, 15–16 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face; … [Read more…]

Sermon for 22 February 2015

FIRST READING Genesis 22:1–18 1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains … [Read more…]

Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday 15 February 2015

FIRST READING Exodus 34:29–35 29 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, … [Read more…]

Sermon for 8 February 2014

FIRST READING Deuteronomy 18:15–20 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If I hear the … [Read more…]

Sermon for 1 February 2015

FIRST READING Deuteronomy 18:15–20 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If I hear the … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 25 January 2015

FIRST READING Jonah 3:1–5, 10 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you. 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh … [Read more…]

Funeral Meditation for John Carpenter

FIRST LESSON Isaiah 25:6–9 6 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. 7 And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 18 January 2015

FIRST READING 1 Samuel 3:1–20 1 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. The word of the LORD was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. 2 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room; … [Read more…]

Sermon for Sunday 11 January 2015

FIRST READING Genesis 1:1–5 1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. … [Read more…]