Acceptable
Listen! Sirach 35:12-17 | Luke 18:9-14 I don’t know if you, perhaps in your childhood in Sunday School, ever had to learn the names of all the books in the Bible. …read more
Three Characters
Listen!Jeremiah 31:27-34 | Luke 18:1-8 If you’ve been here at St. John’s for a while – and most of you have – and listening each week during the sermons – …read more
Through the Struggle
Listen!Lamentations 3:19-26 | 2 Timothy 1:1-14 It’s a couplet that has been used in plenty of Christian songs, traditional and contemporary; printed on countless devotional posters, calendars, bookmarks and mugs; …read more
In the world
Listen!John 17:6-19 | John 6:60-69 Over the past few weeks we’ve been exploring different big issues that confront us as a Church and as individual followers of Jesus in the …read more
Engaging with Science
Listen!Genesis 1:1-19 | Psalm 19:1-4 Many of you will have heard this story before, because I love to tell it. When I first arrived at Uniting Theological College to start …read more
Engaging other faiths
Listen!Acts 17:22-28 | John 14:1-10 As I mentioned two weeks ago, at the start of this September series of sermons on issues facing Christians today, when I asked members of …read more
Engaging Culture
Listen!Acts 5:27-32 | 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 In some ways last week’s sermon might have felt a bit depressing. I guess its kind of inevitable that if you ask what the …read more
Dying and Irrelevant
Listen!Ezekiel 37:1-14 | John 12:20-26 When, a few weeks ago, I asked members of the congregation to nominate what they thought were the biggest issues facing the Church in the …read more
Look busy!
Hebrews 11:8-16 | Luke 12:32-40Listen! When I was at college, one of the other student – now a respected minister, so I won’t name him or her – had a …read more
Vanity of vanities
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 | Luke 12:13-21Listen! The Bible has, it would have to be said, something of an ambiguous attitude towards wealth. On the one hand, in much of the Old …read more