Well hello! Merry Christmas. Welcome to Trinity, or welcome back. I’m delighted that you’ve come this evening, and I hope and pray that this evening’s worship brings God’s blessing. Ah, I need Christmas. Don’t you? I need this season and this holiday. I love Jesus, of course, and I love celebrating his birthday. I love…
Are you the one? – sermon for 15 Dec 2019 (Advent 3)
While John the Baptist was in prison, he sent his followers to ask Jesus: Are you the one, or are we to wait for another? Now this is peculiar. John knew that Jesus was special. In Luke’s Gospel, we are told about the time that Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth. Both women were pregnant, Mary…
One Mission – sermon for 8 Dec 2019 (Advent 2)
John the Baptist had one mission. It was a strange mission. He was a strange man. He ate weird food. Wore weird clothes. Did weird stuff. Say weird things. John the Baptist didn’t care. He was a man on the mission. I bet he actually relished all the weirdness. They helped the cause. They filtered…
Novena in Preparation for Christmas
A Novena is a form of Christian prayer that takes place over, traditionally, 9 days. You are invited to pray this Novena in Preparation for Christmas beginning on December 16th. There is an opening prayer, followed by a one of the O Antiphons for each of the days, concluded by the Our Father, the Hail…
Judge of the World – sermon for 17 Nov 2019
Advent is coming, and Advent has two simultaneous themes. We prepare of course for the celebration of Christmas. We prepare also for the second coming of Jesus Christ, for the day we speak of in the Creed, when he shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. Today’s Gospel {see all…