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Yr C ~ Palm Sunday ~ Luke 19:28-40 To begin, did anyone notice that in Luke’s version of Palm Sunday there are a couple of things missing – like palms? If we only had Luke’s version we’d have to call…
Yr C ~ Lent 5 ~ Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 This is the fifth sermon in a Lenten series called War of the Worlds. We’ve been looking at the culture clash and conflict that happens when the ‘ways of the world’…
Yr C ~ Lent 3 ~ Luke 13:1-9 In the 1992 Clint Eastwood movie “Unforgiven” a young man who has just killed a man says, “Well, I reckon he had it coming.” To this the grizzled old gun slinger played…
Yr C ~ Lent 3 ~ Philippians 3:17-4:1 I’m calling this Lenten sermon series the War of the Worlds – borrowing from H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel – a novel about what happens when a powerful, hostile ‘world’ wages war…
Yr C ~ Lent 2 ~ Philippians 3:4b-14 This is going to be uncomfortable for a while. Oh, we’ll land in a good place, but first we’re going to wade through some nasty business. We’re looking at Paul’s letter to…
Yr C ~ Lent 1 ~ Luke 4:1-13 It’s a story that we’ve heard so many times, and that’s inspired so much art, and literature, and yes, sermons over the years that we may think it doesn’t have much more…
Scripture: Psalm 51:10-17 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 51:11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. 51:12…
Yr C ~ Epiphany 6 ~ Luke 6:27-31 Sometimes Jesus really ticks me off. How’s that for a sermon opener?! I mean, I don’t know about you, but I’ve been in a state lately, and it’s not been happy. There…
Yr C ~ Epiphany 5 ~ Luke 5:1-11 One of my favourite metaphors for God is the concept of ocean. An ocean is vast, powerful, mysterious, dangerous, deep, has waves and currents, is known yet unknowable, represents a voyage, is…
Yr C ~ Epiphany 4 ~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 It obviously is, but it really isn’t, but in the end it actually is. People who have never attended a Sunday worship service probably still have some resonance with 1 Corinthians…