Sermon for Last Sunday after the Epiphany There is a compelling line in today’s epistle reading, in the portion from St. Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi. Sometimes a reading will leave you with a sentence or a phrase that rings like a bell and won’t let go of your attention. There are actually…
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Washed, blessed, and resurrected – sermon for 12 Jan 2020
Bathing is at ancient as humanity. So it is no surprise that ritual bathing is nearly as old. In most of the world’s religions, there are ceremonies that involve water, and washing, and bathing. Cleanliness, they say, is next to godliness. So when John headed out to Jordan, people might have been surprised at how…
Listening to angels – sermon for 5 Jan 2020
Merry Christmas! We still have a little bit of time left in the twelve days of Christmas. Epiphany begins with Evening Prayer tonight, and then we enter a short season which revolves around epiphanies – discoveries of Jesus and who he is. The great story of Epiphany of course is the arrival of the magi…