Messages (Sermons)

190317 – Hide and Seek

Yr C ~ Lent 2 ~ Psalm 27 [monologue paraphrasing Psalm 27] This is so great! I never could have imagined it – it’s better than I’d ever hoped! I have sensed God’s Presence. I am savouring God’s Presence. This…

190310 – Mind Your Toes

Yr C ~ Lent 1 ~ Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Back in the 1970s when the television show Saturday Night Live was in its infancy there was a hilarious character created by Gilda Radner named Miss Emily Litella. The joke was…

190303 – A Little Knee-Time

Yr C ~ Transfiguration Sunday ~ Luke 9:28-36 Imagine you are Peter, or James, or John. Here’s what’s happened to you in Luke chapter 9. You and the rest of the 12 main disciples were sent out to preach about…

190217 – Blessings and Whoa’s

Yr C ~ Epiphany 6 ~ Luke 6:17-26 (This was our Annual Meeting Sunday, so the sermon needed to be shortened to accommodate the extra meeting time. A fuller version was preached at the Sunday Night Worship service. Both are…

190210 – Go Anyway

Yr C ~ Epiphany 5 ~ Luke 5:1-11 Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at the inauguration of Jesus’ public ministry according to the Gospel of Luke, and we’ve learned that Jesus began his ministry by laying…

190203 – Present Company Excepted

Present Company Excepted Yr C ~ Epiphany 4 ~ Luke 4:21-30 This sermon may be uncomfortable. It might be uncomfortable for you to hear, and parts of it are definitely uncomfortable for me to preach. Are you nervous? You shouldn’t…

190127 – Toothpaste

Yr C ~ Epiphany 3 ~ Luke 4:14-21 Let me set the stage for you. A couple of weeks ago we looked at Jesus’ baptism in Luke 3. Right after that Luke 4 begins with the Holy Spirit leading Jesus…

190120 – The Holy Shoulder Tap

Year C ~ Epiphany 2 ~ 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “What I want to talk about now is the various ways God’s Spirit gets worked into our lives.” That’s how The Message Bible translates the first verse of 1 Corinthians 12,…

190113 – SS Winnow

Yr C ~ Epiphany 1 ~ Luke 3:2-3, 7-17, 21-22 Ok, so this is supposed to be Baptism of Jesus Sunday, but I’m not really going to talk about that at all. Well, his baptism serves as a backdrop, but…

190106 – By Another Road

Yr C ~ Epiphany 1 ~ Matthew 2:1-12 Here are the broad strokes of this very famous story – a story that we usually mess up the details about and probably miss the big message of. It’s the story of…