Proper 10 – Trinity 3 – Year A Isaiah 55.10-13 Romans 8.1-end Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 In the beginning of time God pronounced his word of creation, and there came into being the heavens and the earth, light and darkness, and living creatures, the plants of the earth, the animals that inhabit land and sea, and [...]
Pentecost – Whit Sunday – Year A Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 John 20: 19-23 When the Day of Pentecost came, there were about 120 believers, according to the first chapter of Acts, including the apostles and the other men and women who had gathered together in Jerusalem to await the gift of the Holy [...]
Sunday after Ascension – Easter 7 – Year A Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 One of the remarkable things about Rapture speculation is the failure of those who make elaborate mathematical calculations of this kind to observe the very clear instruction from Jesus that such matters ought not to concern us. In [...]
Trinity 6 – Proper 10 – Year C Deuteronomy 30:9-14 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 Prosperity is not in itself iniquitous, provided it has been obtained honestly and fairly. Indeed, it is a sign of God’s blessing when it is the outcome of a life committed to the values set before us in the word of [...]
Trinity 5 – Proper 9 – Year C Isaiah 66:10-16 Galatians 6:1-16 Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 There are many attributes of God in which we rejoice, and ought to seek to emulate as creatures made in his likeness: not least the justice which characterises all his actions, and undergirds all his laws. It is at the [...]
Sunday after Ascension – Easter 7 – Year C Ezekiel 36.24-28 Acts 16.16-34 John 17.20-26 Jesus taught us to pray for the coming of God’s kingdom, which we understand to mean the transformation of this world according to the pattern of heaven itself, where the will of God is sovereign in all things. Ezekiel speaks [...]
Rogation Sunday – Easter 6 – Year C Acts 16.9-15 Revelation 21.10, 22 – 22.5 John 14.23-29 How utterly refreshing it is to read the Acts of the Apostles, where the living water of the gospel flows freely and without restraint! In the modern church it seems that any decision, no matter how trivial, can [...]
Easter 5 – Year C Baruch 3.9-15, 32-36; 4.1-4 Acts 11.1-18 John 13.31-35 How often must preachers reiterate what Baruch has to say to Israel: that if only mankind would walk in the way of God, how much happier and better human society would be! Knowledge of wisdom is not confined to God himself, for [...]
Easter 4 – Year C Acts 9.36-43 Revelation 7.9-17 John 10.22-30 The ministry of the apostles during the early days of the Church is marked by many miraculous events, in which the authority given to them by Jesus to heal the sick is demonstrated, sometimes quite dramatically, as in the account of the raising of [...]
Easter 3 – Year C Zephaniah 3:14-20 Acts 9:1-6 John 21:1-19 There are many prophecies in the Old Testament which speak of God’s coming victory, and Zephaniah looks to the time when Jerusalem will be set free and all of God’s scattered people will be gathered together in the home which God has prepared. God [...]
