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"John the Baptist" Tagged Sermons

Repent!

Repent Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Second Sunday in Advent, 4th. Decem­ber 2016 Read­ings: Isai­ah 11.1–10; Romans 15:4–13; Mat­thew 3. 1–12 Our Gos­pel read­ing this morn­ing intro­duces us to the strange fig­ure of John the Baptist who appears sud­denly in the wil­der­ness of Judea pro­claim­ing: “Repent, for the king­dom of heav­en has come near.” I won­der what…

Advent Reflection

Advent Reflec­tion Sunday 27th. Novem­ber 2016 John the Baptist is one of the import­ant fig­ures we encounter on our Advent jour­ney. All four Gos­pels record his min­istry and each of the evan­gel­ists has his own assess­ment of his role. This even­ing we have read Matthew’s account of John’s min­istry but we have also listened to the…