Sermons from November 2018
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Jonners’ testimony during the confirmation service
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by Bishop Lee
Bible reading Luke 15:11-32 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Parable of the Prodigal and His Brother 11 Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 A few days […]
Healing service
Bible reading: Psalm 22 (NIV) For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? 2 My God, I cry out by day, but […]
Open to God’s purposes
by Nigel Stowe
Bible reading: Matthew 28:16-20 (NLT) The Great Commission 16 Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted! 18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, […]
Ordering our Lives
by Jo Vickery
Sermon readings: Psalm 1:1-3 (NIV) 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is […]
Open to Difference and Diversity
Bible reading: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (NIV) Christ Crucified Is God’s Power and Wisdom 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the […]
Attached to the Tap
by Jo Vickery
Bible readings: Isaiah 53:1-6 (NIV) 53 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we […]
Open to Creativity
Bible reading: Matthew 25:14-30 (NIV) The Parable of the Bags of Gold 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. […]
Open to Creativity
by Jo Vickery
The pictures mentioned in this sermon are on this page, below the bible reading. Bible reading Exodus 31:1-11 New International Version (NIV) Bezalel and Oholiab 31 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the […]