Sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 16–14; 1 Peter 5 & John 17:1–11 Today is the penultimate, or next to last Sunday in the Season of Easter. In the calendar of the church year we have just celebrated Ascension Day: the ascent of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after His resurrection. Our reading today from the Acts…
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Sermons on Season of Easter
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 17:22–31; 1 Peter 3:8–22 & John 14:15–21 I’ve mentioned in previous sermons that many key indicators clearly demonstrate that the Western world is becoming more and more secular. Which simply means that more and more people do not identity with, or are not connected to, any religious or spiritual matters. In Australia, data…
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 7:55–60, 1 Peter 2:11–25 & John 14:1–14 One of my daily spiritual readings for this week, was on the topic of fear. The author suggested that we don’t always admit to our fears; that we act as though we aren’t under their influence. He also went further to claim that our fears can…
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 2:14a, 22–32, 1 Peter 1:1–12 & John 20:19–31 In the Season of Easter, we continue to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, and each of our readings this morning, deal in some way either directly with the Resurrection, or with the ongoing implication of what the Resurrection means for the world. In our first…
Sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 16:16–34, Revelation 22:12–22 & John 17:20–26 I remember having a conversation some time ago with a person who described themselves as being spiritual rather than religious. They told me they had attended church services previously, but they felt intimidated by these, because they didn’t understand what was happening during the liturgy of the…
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 16:9–15; Revelation 21:10–14, 22–22:5 & John 14:23–29 As I began preparing this sermon, we were in the final days of the election campaign for the Federal Election. I don’t really follow politics, and I certainly haven’t followed this election campaign closely. I didn’t watch any of the televised debates between Scott Morrison and…
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 9:36–43; Revelation 7:9–17 & John 10:22–30 Let me begin this morning by posing you two questions. I don’t want you to answer these questions right away; I want you to just sit with them as you listen to the rest of my sermon. Here are the questions: Do you believe in the miracles…
Readings: Acts 9:1–6, Revelation 5:6–14 & John 21:1–19 When I was on pilgrimage to the Holy Land in January of 2018, one of the places I visited was the Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter. It’s a Franciscan church located in Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. The church supposedly marks the spot where Jesus commissioned Peter…
Sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 1:15–17, 21–26; 1 John 5:9–13 & John 17:6–19 Modern day life is increasingly busy. Regardless of how many tasks we attend to each day, there always seem to be other jobs that get added to our ‘to do list’. And not only are we kept busy attending to these daily tasks, but we…
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Prayer I used last Sunday’s sermon as an opportunity to introduce Thy Kingdom Come for 2021, and the ways in which parishioners could support the initiative this year. I then went on to talk more about prayer in general, and to suggest that, among other things, prayer is living. Through prayer we try to convert…