New Rules – a sermon
This is a sermon preached on Sunday 8 March on Mark 8: 31-38 (Lent 2B). As always, I’d be glad to hear your thoughts.
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Getting Ready
Tomorrow at Together@MCT we’ll walk a labyrinth to help prepare us for Lent. Come and join us if you’re in Edinburgh for 5.30pm-7pm at Saughtonhall United Reformed Church.
Still Speaking – A sermon
1 Samuel 3:1-10 is one of my favourite passages in the Bible. I love the story of Eli and Samuel and all its imagery and drama. Let me know what you think of the sermon. Thoughts, comment and criticism (constructive preferred) all welcome.
Exile
It’s almost Christmas. For many churches that means nativity plays and carol services. For Dunfermline URC those will come later so this morning presented a bit of a challenge. How to preach on Christmas… before it’s Christmas. This is what I came up with. Your thoughts and comments are very welcome. Sermon Text (for those Read More …
Ending an Exile?
Christmas is coming. The end of the exile is near. Rob Bell says that: Exile is when you forget your story. Exile isn’t just about location; exile is about the state of your soul. Exile is when you fail to convert your blessings into blessings for others. Exile is when you find yourself a stranger Read More …
Almost
This Sunday is the 4th in Advent. We’re almost there. The waiting is almost over… And yet the lectionary has us at Gabriel telling Mary she’s going to have a child. It’s as though they don’t want us to get to the birth. Perhaps all this waiting is important. Perhaps we’re meant to hang around Read More …
goosebumps and justice
I ended the service at Drumchapel Essenside URC with these brilliant words from Roddy Hamilton: let us go out with quiet boldness, tender daring, simmering anger, impatient justice. let us go out with provocative peacemaking into advent, enough to crack open the moribund and dry faith of the world in it’s spent and necrotic cravings. Read More …