Sermons
The stone that the builders rejected has become the most important one of all.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is probably the actual site of the crucifixion and the resurrection. In the time of Jesus it was a worked-out quarry. Part… Read more
The solitary seed has to ‘die’ to produce many seeds.
Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds…. Read more
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
Mary Maclead Bethune (1875-1955) is listed as one of the 100 most influential black American women. She actively worked in getting herself educated, then, when her hopes of becoming a… Read more
Be angry but do not sin.
When Jesus cleared out the animals from the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables, he was angry (John 2:13-22). The same Jesus is also the Lamb of God, who quietly… Read more
Take up your cross and follow me. Peter blasts Jesus.
Jesus then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law,… Read more
The Ongoing Gift of Baptism
Baptism joins us to Jesus. The washing clean with water (or being immersed in water) is not just symbolic of removing sins, it actually does that. It joins us to… Read more
Gotta be all things to all people? I Corinthians 9.
I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I… Read more
When misusing Christian freedom becomes a faith issue. Corinth, Greece, 50 CE.
At the time of St Paul, you bought your meat from the market place, but it had all been slaughtered at a nearby temple by a priest who had dedicated… Read more
False freedom vs Genuine Freedom.
‘All things are lawful for me’, but I won’t be enslaved by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12. Some of the Corinthains, who had the Greek view that the body was not… Read more
Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 6:19.
How do you feel about your body? God very carefully designed us to have bodies, rather than have us just some sort of disembodied spiritual being. Some of the pagans… Read more