by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
The warning of an approaching object or event is always important. We need to know what’s coming, what danger it poses, what action – perhaps evasive action – we need to take: and that of course is true whether we are talking about a tsunami or a visit from the...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Reading is St. Matthew Ch 6 verses 16 – 21 The Collect for Ash Wednesday – Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last Sunday I introduced the passage set for the day from the Book of Isaiah by giving you something of an introduction to the book’s two parts and its main themes. Briefly for the benefit of those who were not here [You can by the way read that sermon, as well as the...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
This morning’s ‘Ice-breaker’ that we gave you as you took your seats for Cafe Church was a light-hearted exercise to get you thinking about how we naturally look at people and are tempted to pigeon-hole them or put them into categories…often on the basis of very...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
If, as you and I think about this world in which we live, we are looking for a definition of love, then we should look not in a dictionary but at Calvary, at the cross of Jesus Christ. The emblem that Christians chose to be the universal emblem that spoke most...
