Sermons

This scripture tells of Jesus letting go his safe place in heaven, to become one of us, and to continue the journey downwards, into being a servant, and suffering death for us. Then he was lifted up, out of death, and into the highest place of all, with everyone, in...

Will you trust me? Genesis 22:1-19. God asks Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son. After many long years, the promised son has been born. The promises that God gave Abraham and Sarah are becoming more real: land, their own child, and a blessing to all humankind...

Sarah, Abraham, Hagar, and Laughing Boy. Genesis 15-21. Looking at a lot of complicated hurts, plus a happy ending (of sorts). Abraham and Sarah received three great promises from God: land, their own child and that the whole earth would be blessed through them. All...

Abraham and Sarah – Immigrants who learn to live with their neighbours. Abraham and Sarah are promised that they will possess the land of Canaan, but that doesn’t happen in their lifetimes. They take it on trust. Thye are constantly on the move as they seek good...

Following on from the confusion of languages after the Tower of Babel, people were on the move, seeking out places to settle down. Abraham are part of that general movement when God unexpectedly chooses them to be part of his big rescue plan for the world, to reverse...

In Genesis 11, when everyone still spoke a common language, we hear of a people who wanted to be secure and stay together, by building a city featuring a tower up to the heavens. We have been calling the ‘Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’ that Adam and Eve ate...

This is not just a children’s story. From Genesis chapters 3 – 6 , the effects of sin reach up even into the heavens, with the ‘sons of God’ (some sort of angels?) coming down to human women. God sees that violence is multiplying, and that human hearts are set on evil...

In Genesis 4 we glimpse life after Adam and Eve have eaten the fruit from the one tree they were told not to. Thinking of this as the Tree of Entitlement, rather than the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, makes more and more sense the more I reflect on it. ‘I...

Genesis 3 includes so much: a tricky snake who lies about God; Eve who adds extra words to what God has said; Adam who stands there saying and doing nothing. Then, when it has gone wrong, there is hiding, blaming, avoiding, covering up. Life-giving connections are...