...2 Thessalonians. One can understand why Paul would feel the need to write to the church in Thessalonica, to spell out what to expect before the second coming. In the...
...the cycle of the week and the completeness of the creation story. Six comes close but, ultimately, seven is better. So John is telling a story of displacement – not...
...that ‘there was no room for them in the inn’. I am told that Bethlehem would not have had inns as we understand them today. Commercial lodgings for travelers...
Sunday 25 February 2024, The Second Sunday of Lent, 10:30. Take up your cross. A Sermon preached by the Precentor, Canon Anna Macham. Genesis 17:1-7,15-16 and Mark 8:31-end https://www.youtube.com/live/zIr3uiTH2WE?si=zlnXX2sAJxXkpbJ4 If...
Preacher: Rev. Maggie Guillebaud A Summer Sermon Esther 8: 1-8 https://www.youtube.com/live/Wixt3gz0R20?si=jE77IPowEFq1ZzyT I wonder which books influenced you most when you were a child? Mine were Heidi and Little Women. Heidi,...
...community. You and I belong to the community to whom Luke’s Gospel is sacred, and we may read it confident in the Spirit’s guiding. When we first encounter the man...
...been profuse. Missing out on English daffodils and crocuses, I have particularly enjoyed the blood-red of the anemone coronaria, great carpets of which are spread around the valley. I thought...
...of God’s universal love and compassion. For in Christ, we find the one with the Power of God: Christ who commanded the wind and sea… and preached peace. Christ who...
What’s so Original about Sin? A sermon for the First Sunday of Lent by Kenneth Padley Readings: Genesis 2.15-17, 3.1-7; Romans 5.12-19 https://www.youtube.com/live/D9mh39MaE7Y?si=xWcP7PHttKK1KSwA On 30th November 1916, a grand funeral...