Bible
Opening the Ear, Then the Mouth
By Harry T. Cook Mark 7: 31-37 You can read such a story as this one about the man who was deaf and whose speech was garbled until Jesus touched him, then exclaim, “It’s a miracle,†and consider that you have heard the word and go home contentedly to lunch. Or you can give it […]
Playing Favourites – a sermon
Playing Favourites A sermon on James 2:1-17 & Mark 7:24-30 by Nathan Nettleton, 10 September 2006 We human beings are naturally tribal. We identify ourselves with with blood-related clan groups and various other identifiable groups and we readily commit ourselves to serving the interests of our groups. In this town, our tribalism is especially obvious […]
Love and Grubbiness
A sermon on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23; James 1:17-27; Psalm 45:1-2,6-9 & Song of Songs 2:8-13 by Nathan Nettleton, 3 September 2006 © LaughingBird.net Message God’s love for us is so all-consuming that he accepts us as soon as we accept him and is happy for our behaviours to be sorted out in the transforming […]
So, what else did Jesus say?
“So, what else did Jesus say?†by Gavan O’Farrell We have for some time understood the significance of “body languageâ€â€”the small, unconscious actions that accompany our words. They are part of the small, incidental actions that form an important part of our communication and also reveal something of our character—our “mannerâ€, so to speak. Since […]
A Liturgy for Maundy Thursday
With the Consecration of Holy Oil An Informal Liturgy Following A Church Pot Luck Supper The following is an informal liturgy for use following our congregational Pot Luck Supper. It is held in our eating place and every year features communion. This year we added the consecration of Holy Oil – which, as folk coming […]
To Love And Serve Others
A Sermon in the Series on the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada by Thomas R. Henry August 6, 2006 Text: Matthew 25: 31-45 For those of you who were alive way back there in the late 1960s, you may remember that the word “community” began to replace the word “family” as […]
The Parable of the Rich Fool
Florence Spurling: Welcome to Encounter on ABC Radio National, I’m Florence Spurling. I’ve called this program ‘Soul, This Night’, and it’s the first in a three-part series on present day consumerism, which takes its bearings from the parable of the rich fool in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 12, and from other ancient and modern […]
How To Do A Whole-of-life Check-up
Psalm 25, Luke 18:9-14, Philippians 3:4-11 Prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy on us, sinners.’ Imagine you have two blank sheets of paper, and you are about to write the ‘headlines’ of your life from your earliest memories to this moment. Divide the first page into four columns. Column 1 […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Sermon on the occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Sermon on the occasion of the Service of Thanksgiving for the Eightieth Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen St Paul’s Cathedral Thursday 15th June 2006 The curse of our age has been the inhumanity of absolute ideology and of myths of racial supremacy, the great lies that have plunged our continent and […]
Easter Sermon (Rowan Williams)
Sermon for Easter Day Canterbury Cathedral Sunday 16th April 2006 One of the ways in which we now celebrate the great Christian festivals in our society is by a little flurry of newspaper articles and television programmes raking over the coals of controversies about the historical basis of faith. So it was no huge surprise […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,754 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress