As far as I and many other Christians are concerned, homophobia, transphobia and conversion therapy are sins.

And echoes the cries of indigenous people these days:

Do you, white folks, not care that we are perishing?

Are we, like Jesus, asleep in the boat, 

completely oblivious to the hardships that First Nations are enduring, 

since we are comfortable, curled up asleep on our cushion?

3rd Sunday after Pentecost

  Mark 4: 25-34

 

Today for my sermon, I’ve got a mashup for you of what’s helped me weed through the Gospel parable. It’s about:

A Mustard Seed

Helicopters 

Screen Time

Bouquets

 

A Mustard Seed, Really?

We start with this quaint parable of a mustard seed, the smallest of all...

Not to say that the traditional nuclear family isn’t good, 

but there shouldn’t be a hierarchy, 

but an equality amongst different forms of family. 

All kinds of family have their good, their bad and their ugly.

Perhaps we can imagine ourselves today like the exiled people of Judah and Jerusalem, 

as the pandemic dry bones.

We are dried up, sick and tired of these restrictions, 

these fears of this tiny virus spreading, locked down and fed up. 

Our bones are tired, and parched.

Come away with me into this sermon time.

 

Whenever I start to write a sermon it’s like going to the well with a bucket. I’ve been to the well before to draw living water, but the bucket needs to refilled often. It’s certain that since the last time I preach on a text the world has changed, and I have changed.  With...

The Church’s traditional focus on the subordination of women, 

as well as its insistence on male power and privilege, 

and its perversion of Christian ideals of love, 

Means that the Church is behind in addressing issues of abuse against women.

So beloved, since God loved us so much, 

we also ought to love one another,

In word and deed.

 

Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Easter

Psalm 23, 1 John 3, John 10:11-18

 

The narratives of faith we hear on Good Shepherding Sunday speak to us of being known, being called, and being gathered into one.  We are given a glimpse that life as God intends -  means - that those who don’t experience belonging, are meant to find...

In the Creeds, we don’t say, that we believe in the resurrection of the soul,

We say, we believe in the resurrection of the body.

That is, Christians shouldn’t be saying that the soul separates from the body and all we have left is this immortal soul, 

and the body is completely cast off like a useless banana peel.