If our heart is our inner compass, how do we make sure it is pointing us in the right direction? No video this week, sorry, but you can find the text at this link: https://revdrmargaretwesley.substack.com/p/true-north?r=320jh0
Rev Kathy Hammer's sermon for Pentecost 14
don't let your life be a Barmecide feast
Most of us avoid having hard conversations for as long as we possibly can. But when you are called to be a prophet of God in the court of the king, hard conversations are at the top of your job description, and they can place you regularly in mortal danger. I can imagine the Nathan lying awake all night looking for a strategy for this extremely hard and dangerous conversation. We know he was a genuine prophet of God because he settled on the one plan that just might work. He will use a story.
Nobody wakes up and decides to be a bad guy. It is a place people get to along a path of self-deception
There are times in history when people feel like things are getting better and better. Times when we smile to think about the lives our grandchildren will be living – about the things they will know, the things they will do – and we think to ourselves “what a wonderful world!” Then there are times when we feel like we are stuck in an endless rerun of a history documentary that we know ends badly.
For more than half his life he had been the anointed king of Israel, but not the recognised king. So David lived with two identities. Not unlike Jesus. And not unlike you and me. 2 Samuel 5:1-5,9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; Mark 6:1-13
Rev Pam Hynd's sermon for the second Sunday after Pentecost
Rev Pam Hynd's sermon for Pentecost
When Jesus calls us to love each other as we have been loved, what sort of love is he talking about? Just what does his love for us look like?