Sermons
Peter Taylor Forsyth: Inspiring!
I’ve just finished Jason Goroncy’s ‘Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P.T.Forsyth’ (2013: Pickwick, 373 pp.).Forsyth (1848-1921) was an amazing man, astonishingly erudite for a practising pastor. Today we’d call him a ‘polymath’, certainly an ‘autodidact’. The modern church-goer eschews such sermons ’employing 100 words when ten would […]
Homily/Eulogy – for a good man, Rob Haley
Today we are saying goodbye to a very special person, Rob Haley. Rob was born on a cold, foggy evening on the 19th of July 1924, in Bunyip, a small town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia: the first child to Alf and Florence Haley. Last week – on 13th May 2014 – he passed away peacefully […]
Preaching: Preachers other preachers read (and preach!)
I talk to lots of clergy – in conferences and one to one – and have a pretty good idea about their preaching styles, and the  other preachers they read for inspiration. (An interesting thing happened on the way to writing this chapter, Mothers’ Day 2014. My wife has produced one of the two or […]
Engaging the flood of controversy over Noah
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com There has been a lot of controversy over the Noah movie, mainly from Christians. The controversy has been around the fact that the movie doesn’t follow the biblical story in many ways. In fact it has a bit of a Lord of the Rings feel to it, particularly with the inclusion of the rock-like […]
Faith and Belief: a Sermon for Trinity Sunday
By Jan Coates We have times when we put aside reason and intellect, and accept through faith things we cannot explain or understand. So, this is Trinity Sunday. I have to say that the concept of the Trinity is not all that mysterious to me – being a multiple personality (like most Mums), it isn’t […]
Faith and ‘Great Things’
You see things and say ‘why?’ But I dream things that never were And I say ‘why not?’ (Robert Kennedy’s slogan for his ill-fated campaign for the American presidency. Stole it from G B Shaw, who probably stole it from the Greek poet Aeschylus). The impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does it. […]
Goodness: Barnabas – a case study…
This is a word not found in secular Greek. Graeco-Roman philosophers sometimes commended selfless generosity, but it was not a highly significant virtue for them. Christian goodness is embodied in Jesus Christ. The best of the saints, says Sangster, have a peculiar kind of goodness. ‘It unconsciously proclaims itself. One feels it as an […]
Heaven
Zion, City of Our God Sermon by Fleming Rutledge                                                                      July 8, 2012 Psalm 48, Revelation 7, 19-21            There are a lot of apocryphal stories about the great theologian Karl Barth, but this one sounds just like him. A well-meaning lady asked him, “Dr. Barth, will we see our loved ones in […]
HELL – a sermon for Advent
Grace Church in New York Posted: Nov 17, 2013 By Fleming Rutledge At Grace Church in 1993 we had a series of Wednesday evening sermons on the Four Last Things of Advent: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell—in their traditional order. The sermon is unchanged from Advent 1993 and the names of parishioners have not been […]
‘I lost both of my hands, an eye and had damaged ear drums and…and. In the midst of great pain, I felt that God was with me.’
A challenge to us all, from someone who’s paid a high price to be an advocate for peace and justice for all… ~~ WCC 10th Assembly 8th October 2013 Sermon Father Michael Lapsley, SSM Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories Cape Town, South Africa Peace be with you. I greet you all as […]
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