“Son of man!”. “Child of humans!”. “Daughter of woman”. “I am sending you to my stubborn people”. In the Hebrew, Son of Man basically means “human” in this passage. And so Ezekiel is commissioned to his job and calling. Go to stubborn people. What a job – being sent to the people of God who long ago stopped living as God’s people.…
Anglican worship in Geneva, Switzerland
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Anglican worship in Geneva Sermons by Revd Glen Ruffle
Mark 4:26-34 Well the good news today is that this sermon is really short. (if I hear anyone cheer, you are excommunicated!)! Because we just heard Jesus say “the Kingdom of God is like a tiny seed; it is scattered and it goes into the ground, and it sprouts by itself, and grows by itself, and we don’t do anything, and then…
I’m not fond of Mars Bars, but I remember a TV advert from when I was little, which had the catchy tune “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”. Our readings today are about the Sabbath – and a Sabbath a week, helps you work, rest and play! The idea of a day of rest is rooted in the…
Welcome to Vocations Sunday! Yes, by the end of my sermon, you will be signing yourselves up to become a priest! Well, actually no, we are not all called to be priests. Indeed, the idea of being “called” is itself a stumbling block for most people. If you honestly want to know, I largely pursued the priesthood thing because I rather liked…
A few weeks ago I started a Thursday morning service with this terrible joke: “Did anyone know Communism would fail? Well, there were just so many red flags…” And yet in our reading today from the book of Acts, we had a story of the early church living as, it would seem, like communists! Private property was no more! The people of…
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…
Wow, those were some heavy passages today! Lent is not an easy time! But let me get straight to the overall key message I would love us to take away today: it’s trust God so much that you let yourself die. Trust God enough to die. Now let me make it clear: I’m not calling us to suicide or to actively seek…
Sermon: Dedication! 2 Kings 2:1-12; 2 Cor 4:3-6; Mark 9:2-9 People of a certain age, who grew up in England, might remember a children’s TV show called Record Breakers. In this show, Roy Castle, an actor, went around finding people who were breaking Guiness World Records, and sometimes, Roy and his team would join in or break the records themselves. But the…
Talk for young people and adults So today we had a tree that does not know what it is. It is confused, it gives all kinds of fruit, but we don’t know if it is an apple tree, a banana tree, or an orange tree. And then Mr Sheepy….well he seemed very suspicious. We all think he was actually a wolf! And…
As much as a sermon on Revelation, dragons, stars being swept away and the eating of a male son is fascinating, today we are going to look at the Deuteronomy and Mark passages – but I hope a good series on Revelation could be enjoyed by us all one day! Well, the OT reading in Deuteronomy is talking of God raising up…