A sermon preached for a harvest festival based on Genesis 41:14-36 and Luke 12:16-34. We are here today celebrating the harvest. To quote a hymn we’re not going to sing today, “All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin”. But is it? Does anyone know how successful or otherwise this year’s harvest has been? This harvest has been a particularly bad one. The … Continue reading All is safely gathered in?
As part of Methodism’s Bible Month, today we start exploring the Letter to the Philippians. The letter was essentially a thankyou letter that Paul and Timothy wrote for a financial gift that had been sent by the community that they had founded in the city on Paul’s second missionary journey. Clearly it was written centuries before it can have occurred to anyone that human activity … Continue reading Learning from a letter
A blog inspred by the second week of Calling a Wounded Earth Home, a Lent Course produced by Green Christian. You can read the first post in this series at this link. I’ve always read the story of Zacchaeus as a simple story of a repentant sinner. This week’s Bible study has made me think about it in a different light. The clue to this change … Continue reading Zacchaeus goes green?
A blog inspred by the second week of Calling a Wounded Earth Home, a Lent Course produced by Green Christian. You can read the first post in this series at this link. From Jeremiah by Horace Vermet 1844 Pretty much everything we know about Jeremiah comes, either directly or indirectly, from the Hebrew Bible. According to the book that bears his name he was a prophet … Continue reading Lamenting with Jeremiah
