“The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into his harvest’. (Matthew 9.31) One of the saddest sights is to see fruit and vegetables go to waste because they are not harvested at all or are damaged before they can be picked. I remember witnessing this on a trip to the…
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Anglican worship in Geneva Sermons on Faith
“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.…
‘Do not invite death by the error of your life, Or bring on destruction by the works on your hands. Because God did not make death, And he does not delight in the death of the living (Wisdom 1.12-13) These are timely words for us from the Wisdom of Solomon for we live in a world which often feels characterised by a…
If you just had more faith …… Our Bible reading from Job and the story of the calming of the storm in Mark’s Gospel today can leave us with the feeling that if we just had rather more faith, everything would be fine. We’d be better Christians, freed from anxieties and costly emotions, and set free to serve God in the kind…
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…
Today it’s not the clergy preaching to the choir, but the choir preaching to you…. But even though I’m wearing my choir robes, the metaphorical hat I’m wearing as I speak to you this morning is that of a diplomat. (At this point I should issue the standard declaimer: the reflections that follow are made very much in my personal, not my…
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…
‘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…
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…