A Pentecost Sermon
This is my sermon from today, Pentecost 2013, preached at Dunfermline United Reformed Church. The readings the sermon is based on are Acts2:1-21 and John 14:8-17. As always, your comments and thoughts are very welcome.
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A Christmas Sermon
Incarnation. Taking on flesh. God slipping into skin. Or that wonderful image from John’s Gospel of the Word moving into the neighbourhood. What a amazing image. Isn’t it? It’s hard to get your head around it though, that God would bother. That God would be so vulnerable, so tiny, so frail, so dependant. There are Read More …
What does growth look like?
On Sunday I was wondering about that little conversation Jesus has with Peter where he ask him three times “Do you love me?”. Each time Peter says “yes, of course I do!” and after each reply Jesus says something odd. Feed my lambs. Look after my sheep. Feed my sheep. Odd. I wondered aloud about Read More …
Inspiration towards Sundays
Whether you are a creator or curator of worship there are always times when the blank screen seems to stay blank longer than you would like. Words don’t come. I find that those weeks are the ones where I haven’t had the time to read enough, to talk enough or to think and pray enough. Read More …
Advent Sermon
Last year I preached a sermon on ‘waiting’. It’s one of the most listened to and so I thought, given it’s Advent, I’d make it easier to find. Let me know what you think…
Courageous Community
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a sermon for lots of reasons, mostly not being around much over the summer but today I preached at Lanark Greyfriars on the theme of ‘Courage for Community’ from today’s lectionary reading from Esther. As usual, your thoughts, comments and suggestions (constructive please).
A Question of Faith – a sermon about Thomas
I feel sorry for Thomas. He gets some bad press, mostly so John can make a point to his readers I think. I’m not even sure Thomas had doubts. I think he had questions, so that’s where this week’s sermon focuses… on questions. I was at Lanark Greyfriars and the readings were John 20: 19-31, Read More …