True Glory and True Prayer (Trinity XI sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Corinthians 15:1-11       St Luke 18:9-14   His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain. [1 Cor 15:10]   In this Trinity season, we are beginning to learn about something new that happens in us, as our passions, the…

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Humility and Spiritual Gifts (Trinity X sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Corinthians 12:1-11       St Luke 19:41-47a   Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. [1 Cor 12:1] Our readings from Trinity 3 to 9 are about various passions of the soul –…

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The Transfiguration (sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 2 Peter 1:16-21       St Mark 9:2-7a   Jesus …was transfigured before them: and his face shone like the sun and his garments became white as light. [St Matthew 17:2]   We celebrate today the Transfiguration of our Lord.  It is the historical…

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Greed and Bible Reading (Trinity VIII sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Romans 8:12-17       St Matthew 7:15-21   We are the children of God.  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ…  [Rom 8:16-17]   At Ascension, in five of the past six Sundays and today, we are looking at…

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Acedia and God’s Repeated Revelations (Trinity VII sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Romans 6:19-end            St Mark 8:1-9   But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Rom 6:22 NIV)   Today’s gospel relates…

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Dejection and Fellowship (Trinity V sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Peter 3. 8-15a       Luke 5:1-11 Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. [Lk 5:5-6]…

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Vainglory and the Inward Turn (Trinity IV sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us  I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.  [Rom 8:20]   In this early part of Trinity season we are continuing our investigation of the passions of our…

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Pride and Prayer (Trinity III sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Peter 5:5b-11       St. Luke 15:1-11   Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility towards one another… Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you   In the next 7 weeks,…

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The Perfecting of Fear (Trinity II sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 John 3:13-end       St Luke 14:16-24   The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  Pr 9:10 Perfect love casts out fear.  1 Jn 4:18 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endures forever.  Ps 19:9   Faith in…

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The Perfecting of Love (Trinity I sermon)

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 St John 4:7-end       St Luke 16:19-end   Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. [1 St John 4:8-10]   We have entered into Trinity season, the longest season of the Christian year.  The liturgical colour…

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