Sermons
Our weekly sermons
Maundy Thursday. The Passover points us to the Lord’s Supper
Maundy Thursday. Southport 2021 Passover meal: protection from the angel of death passing through the land. Egyptians were focused on their afterlife. Their whole economy was pushed into that. One of the things they needed to get to their afterlife was to not lose...
Palm Sunday The journey down and the journey up.
Christ humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross. Traditional part of the Lent liturgy, sung as a response to the second reading. Simple words, but full of a different sort of power to what we are usually attracted to. Philippians talks...
Lent 5B Dying to be fruitful
Lent 5B 2021 John 12: 20-33 We want to see Jesus. Hopefully that happens every time you come here to worship. Hopefully you see, hear and nourish yourself on something of Jesus. In our text this request comes from Greek speakers, representing the others, the...
Reading the Bible One to One
Jesus cleanses the temple
Three things today: we recognise and act on catastrophes, we don’t recognise and act on the things that change slowly. Prophetic actions. Wait and see. Our brains are wired to recognise and deal with catastrophes, better than with slow, incremental change. Something...
Lent 2 Year B Mark 8:31-38
Banias - a turning point for Jesus As a 26 year old, to my surprise (but it was after 21 years of non-stop formal education) I took the year off from my pastoral studies, picked fruit to earn enough money, then spent 6 months in Europe including 7 weeks in Israel. The...
Transfiguration Sunday – power for the long haul.
Metamorphosis – that is the Greek word that is translated as transfiguration. Change. Let’s explore both transfiguration and metamorphosis. When Leanne was putting together the service order and powerpoint slides (as she does each week) she had a quick question about...
Ash Wednesday.
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will return. Lent is the 40 day period set apart by Christians to remember that Jesus resolutely chose to go to Jerusalem and gave up his life willingly on the cross. It made him look like a total loser. Those who were the...
First Sunday of Lent. Looking for the God patterns of growth.
If you look at the cross section of a tree, you can see the rings of growth, and if you know what you are looking for, you can tell when the tree had good growing seasons or drought. Think of the teams you have been part of at work or sport. One of the models of team...
