The Church is universal - across the world. This sermon uses three biblical images (vine, clothes and body) to explore what the Church means for us.
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The second part of our series ‘Do you believe in the Church’ focuses on John 13:34-35, which contains the specific words Jesus has for how we are to live as a community. From early on in the Christian tradition, the Church has been described as a ship. A ship of believers, where people find belonging and love.
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The start of a series about the Church. Perhaps the Church seems a familiar topic to us, but we are still growing in what it means to live as the Church. 2000 years on… there’s still much for us to discover about living as the Church!
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Our Gospel story is about a storm that stopped very quickly. Some who hear this story of Jesus stilling a storm would have an almost automatic problem with it… it’s the supernatural in the story. Perhaps a more interesting question than ‘was a storm supernaturally stopped?’ is: ‘Why does Mark tell this story?’
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This sermon focuses on the last verse in the reading: ‘if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!’
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In this part of Paul’s letter to the Christians in Corinth, he’s making an argument. It’s an argument that we can have hope because there is more than meets the eye.
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Today is Pentecost Sunday. We need to ask the same question those at the first Pentecost asked: “What does this mean?”
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The Ascension of Jesus shows us that the truth is ‘out there, up there and in here’.
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A sermon on Communion - where it came from, why we have it and how we can celebrate it most authentically.
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Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God and all it is, and then makes this observations about who really ‘gets it’. This sermon asks us to think about whether we really ‘get it’. What is our conception of God? How do we KNOW God? And do we hear Him as a song?
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