Category: Sermons
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
We make the turn from the excessive loves (greed, gluttony, and lust) and the defective love (sloth) into the final three of the Deadly Sins which are what Dorothy Sayers refers to as Love Perverted. The Perverted Loves are loves which though mirrored in some of the others becomes so…
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
We’ve left the sins which Dorothy Sayers calls “Loves Excessive”, and we come to Pride which alone occupies the category of “Love Defective. Sloth is, according to Sayers, a failure to love any object in its proper measure and particularly to fail to love God with all one has and…
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The Three Marys of the Passion
I’ve been working on a sermon series for Holy Week which I will begin preaching tonight called: The Three Mary’s of the Passion. To be honest I haven’t settled on a it, but it’ll have to do. I have been intrigued by the interactions of Mary of Bethany, Mary the…
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Yet I will….
Habakkuk 3 is Habakkuk’s response after being in the presence of the Lord. The genre of chapter 3 is unlike the previous two chapters. Both the language (the words employed) and the form (the way in which the words are put together) reflect the worshipful heart of Habakkuk.If you have…
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What Days are These?
Well, I haven’t posted in month. I’ve been back in the office two days after a three month sabbatical. And now I’m getting cranky. We’re scheduled to sing this Sunday, “Days of Elijah” a worship song by Robin Mark. Here are the words: These are the days of Elijah,Declaring the…
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