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...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today people all around the world will be celebrating Christmas. They will be celebrating in different ways and of course in different languages. Has anyone ever heard or perhaps even sung ‘Silent Night’ in German? In Danish? Or how about Chinese? Arabic perhaps? I...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
That last reading was entitled ‘St. John unfolds the great mystery of the incarnation.’ As we think about Christmas, we can usefully do so in terms of John’s inspiring words – v9 ‘the true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. ’ St. John, the...
by Samuel Smithson | Jul 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Church’s season of Lent challenges us to take an honest look at ourselves in the light of the good news of fast approaching Good Friday and Easter Day. Lent offers an opportunity to take stock of our relationships with God and neighbour. Such a spiritual audit as...
