Sermons

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...

Here are some of the things we named during the sermon time on Sunday, as we looked at the actions of God. Forming the man from the dust of the ground: potter, artist. Breathing into his nostrils the breath of life: paramedic, lifesaver. Planted a garden: landscape...

We started our journey through Genesis by looking at Chapter 1, God creating the world in 6 days and resting on the 7th. We explored a number of themes. 1. Creation is good, not evil. We are not meant to be always looking elsewhere for heaven and for God. God created...

This is a very simple account: Jesus attends a local wedding, the wine runs out during the week long celebrations, his mum tells him to help, so 600 l of water becomes superb wine, and only the servants and a few others initially know what has happened. Simple...