Christine Housel – AI Ethics Adviser The disciples were all together in one place, we learn that it was early in the morning. Unlike several weeks earlier, in the Upper Room, where they were mourning, grieving, disappointed, fearful, and discombobulated, today they are full of anticipation for what’s next. Why? Because they have seen the risen Lord. They have seen the marks…
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Anglican worship in Geneva Sermons on John
Safeguarding Sunday Some of you may have wondered why safeguarding is important and why we are putting such a focus on ensuring that those involved in leadership and helping roles in the church have received appropriate safeguarding training. If that was the case, then I hope what Carol and Rawsette have said today will have shown you just why it is so…
‘And I appointed you to go out and bear fruit, fruit that will last’ (John 15.16) In our reading from St John’s Gospel this morning, Jesus gives his disciples three clear commands: to abide in his love; to love one another and to go out and bear fruit that will last. Moreover, he makes it plain to them that they can do…
‘Perfect love cast out fear’ (1 John 4. 18) There is a lovely story in St Matthew’s Gospel when Jesus, after the miracle of feeding the five thousand, sends the disciples ahead by boat on the lake whilst he goes up the mountain to pray all night. The disciples are buffeted in the boat by the wind all night and no doubt…
Becoming Children of God ‘See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are’. (1 John 3.1). It may be quite a shock to think of ourselves as children of God. A shock for as adults to think of ourselves in any sense as children again and a shock also…
Christ is risen – we are set free! Christ is risen – we are set free! Today is our liberation day when God raises Jesus to life and in so doing, calls us to new life in Him. But from what and how are we set free? What does it mean? Each of us here will have had some experience of being…
‘Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will be my servant also”. Whoever serves me, the Father will honour’ (John 12.26) Today is Passion Sunday, the start of Passiontide which is the two-week period in the Church’s year which leads up to Easter. It marks a significant change in the tempo of Lent as we now anticipate in…
Sermon John 3:15-21 Snakes get a rum deal in our society. They slither along on their bellies, flickering their tongues and very often scare ladies. I was in a zoo once and they got out this big boa constrictor, and the keeper stood, holding the snake, and we could all touch it. Obviously, as a brave man, I was not scared… but…
Title: The mission to follow Christ without unwilling prejudices. Today we are celebrating the second Sunday of Epiphany after we remembered last Sunday the visit of the wise men to the Christ Child and the importance of Jesus’s physical manifestation to the Gentiles. In different ways, we are regularly following people, leaders, creators of public opinion. When I was a child, I…
Transformations One of the joys in England which takes place in the long, dark period between Christmas and early February is the pantomime. It is a quintessentially English style of play, usually based on one of the classic fairy stores such as Little Red Riding Hood or Jack and the Beanstalk, and characterised with its own very particular style of humour which…