Paul and the Beer Rule, a sermon for 26 Jan 2014

Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and the SPI Beer Rule. The Beer Rule is actually the Beer Principle and can be found over here at the Scholar Priest Initiative. Listen: The lessons can be found by clicking here.

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SR St Peter’s 100th Anniversary

Link: St Peter’s 100th Anniversary Summary of what I was saying and why: Sunday was approximately 100 years since the dedication of St Peter’s. We had a 1914 style service followed by a Parish lunch. It was a great day. All I wanted to do was say something about the history of St Peter’s, of […]

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Gospel Alchemy, Sermon Christmas 2, 5 Jan 2014

Word does not become flesh. Listen: The lessons are Jeremiah 31:7–14; Psalm 147:13–21; Ephesians 1:3–14; John 1:(1–9), 10–18.  I worked most closely with John 1:1-18.

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Christmas Eve, 2013

The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Luke 2:1-20. Jesus’s lullaby and all of our differences. Listen

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SR Kickstartering the Kingdom Advent 3 2013

Link: Kickstartering the Kingdom Summary of what I was saying and why: I had started somewhere else with work that going to become not this sermon. It didn’t fit the lessons. In the wake of that massive edit I had one note about how these things Jesus and Isaiah mention were stretch goals. And then […]

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Map to Halfway, Advent 1 sermon Dec 2013

The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked most closely with Isaiah 2:1-5. Isaiah holds up a vision of where we should be headed.  It’s the getting there that’s hard. Listen:

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SR Things that Last 17Nov2013

Link: Things that Last, 17 November 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: Everything is temporal. One of my mentors told me that. It all decays, deteriorates, gets torn down. Even the things that matter to us. That matter to the people we leave them too. Except water, wine, bread. Jesus’s followers have […]

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Things that Last, a sermon for 17 Nov 2013

The lessons can be found by clicking here.  I worked with Luke 21:5-19. Jesus announces the end of everything.  All of the lasting things we build. Listen:

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