The Gospel according to John 12: 1–11 Preached at St Luke’s Enmore Sunday 22 January 2017 This is a really spine tingling passage. The gospel writer Mark, writing, in my view, of this same event that we have just read in John, says “where ever the gospel is preached in the whole world what Mary has…
Exceedingly Righteous Sermon preached at Enmore, Epiphany 5, 5th February 2017 Reading: Matthew 5.13–20 “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” I wonder what your reaction was when you heard those words read this morning? How righteous are you feeling today? The problem is we…
Blessed are Sermon preached at Enmore, Epiphany 4, January 29, 2017 Readings: Micah 6.1–8, Psalm 15, 1 Cor. 1.18–31, Matthew 5. 1–12 The Sermon on the Mount as we have come to call it is Jesus’ first significant act in the book of Matthew. It is interesting to compare each of these first events in the…
In the time of King Herod Sermon preached at Enmore, Epiphany, Sunday 8th January 2017 Readings: Matthew 2.1–12; Ephesians 3.1–12 Matthew begins his account of the visit of the Magi by telling us that it occurred ‘in the time of King Herod’. If you were writing about an event that had occurred in Sydney in the past…
What’s in a name? Sermon preached at Enmore, The Naming & Circumcision of Jesus, Sunday 1st January 2017 Readings: Numbers 6.22–27; Psalm 8; Galatians 4.4–7; Luke 2.15–21 Those of us who are parents may recall the difficulty we had choosing names for our children. Rosemary and I often discussed names for the entire duration of each pregnancy…