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…
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Anglican worship in Geneva Sermons on Missions
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…
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…
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…
I have to confess that I was very surprised when Canon Alan asked me whether I would agree to prepare a homily for today, since I never thought I would ever receive such a request. After praying about it for a day or two, I agreed to share a few words with you, because, although St Vincent de Paul, and the Sisters…