To watch to this Gospel and Sermon on YouTube please click here. You go into the vineyard too…St Matthew 20:4 Today we are making a shift in our church year. We are turning our minds from Christmas and Epiphany to the even more radical (if there could be!) aspects of Jesus’ life and ministry – his journey to Jerusalem: he will confront demons, he will confront the religious authorities, he will encounter the power of…
To watch to this Gospel and Sermon on YouTube please click here. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Epiphany season is a meditation on Christmas – we think about and are hopefully moved by our consideration that God has come to us in the flesh in Jesus Christ. We have come to know Jesus as a king for all peoples, as a boy in the Temple revealing himself as the…
To watch to this Gospel and Sermon on YouTube please click here. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee;…. And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. The readings in Epiphany season are a mediation on Christmas. What does it mean that God takes flesh and dwells among us? What does it mean about God? What does it mean about human nature and the possibilities for us? …
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers,listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. [John 2] Epiphany season – it is the extension of Christmas, – the revealing who Jesus is – the drawing out of the implications of God taking flesh. Our first encounter after his infancy, and only encounter in his youth – as a…