Sermons by Jo Vickery

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Reimaging power

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Bible reading John 18:33-19:6 33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?” 35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. […]

The life of service and suffering

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Bible reading Mark 10:35-45 The Request of James and John 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” 36 “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. 37 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right […]

The harvest yet to come

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Bible reading (interactive – no recording) Mark 4:1-20 The parable of the sower 4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s […]

‘Ephphatha!’ Jesus opens up new possibilities

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Bible reading Mark 7:31-37 Jesus heals a deaf and mute man 31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32 There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to […]

The Holy one of God

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Bible reading John 6:56-69 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your […]

Bread from heaven

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Bible reading John 6:35, 41-51 35 Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ 42 They said, […]

The work of God

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  Bible reading John 6:24-35 24 Once the crowd realised that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. Jesus the bread of life 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, ‘Rabbi, when did you get here?’ […]

Building a Eucharistic community

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Bible reading John 6:1-21 Jesus feeds the five thousand 6 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing those who were ill. 3 Then Jesus went […]

Be longing

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Bible reading 1 Peter 2:4-12 The living Stone and a chosen people 4 As you come to him, the living Stone – rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him – 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through […]

Where are you?

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Bible readings Genesis 3:1-13; Mark 3:31-35 The fall 3 Now the snake was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden”?’ 2 The woman said to the snake, ‘We may eat fruit from […]