Sermons:2017-2018

Sermon: ‘Here I am’

Here I am – Jesus comes as a human being, as a body, as the truth of another’s presence standing before us, saying simply “Here I am.”

Christ at the end – Even when sacred spaces are destroyed, Jesus has a word of hope for us. A sermon by pastoral intern Joshua Menke.

Gratitude and giving. The story of the widow in the temple reminds us

Saints and silence . . . Our faith doesn’t deny the reality of death. But it does tell us there is something more.

A role to play — Christian life is very much about Jesus stopping in his tracks and saying

Freedom to Serve With Jerusalem in view, Jesus challenges James and John, and us, to rethink what it means to follow him.

‘Love and truth’— Jesus comes with a word of truth that will challenge us, that will shock us and maybe even grieve us, precisely because

Deepening Patriarchy

Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana preached for us in 2010 and again in 2014

Sermon by Rev. Marcus Heutmann from the Church of Sweden in Geneva.

‘Among, not above‘. When Jesus brings his disciples down to eye-level with a child, he is showing them what a life of faithfulness looks like.

‘Listen‘ Our words matter, James insists; they can create worlds.

‘Crumbs‘ A foreign woman challenges Jesus and pushes at the boundaries. How will Jesus respond?

‘Breaking the rules’. Jesus isn’t afraid to break the rules in the interest of making a bigger, more inclusive table. We shouldn’t be either.

Come and find life: We don’t stay with Jesus because it makes things easier or gives us all the answers; we stay because with him we find life.