During Lent, members of the clergy at St Mary’s are giving addresses at Choral Evensong on the theme “If I had just one more sermon to preach…”
Here’s mine:
In the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
If I had just one more sermon to preach, I’d tell people that God loved them.
The truth is, (more…)
I like those – especially the lion/lily/star approach from left field.
There’s also the expression “God who loves us, and loves us, and loves us”.
(A sermon, remembered years later, from a blogged transcript! Fear ye, etc. 🙂
Thanks Tim, it was good to see you at Evensong last night.
We had jaffa cakes at church as a symbol of the Trinity. Works for me!
On Sunday afternoon I did wonder, what did Provost Kelvin say on Trinity Sunday? No, I thought, he will have got someone else to do it – I think last year there was a Baptism or something.
So thanks for this wonderful surprise today.
Lil has spent the morning building a Lego village – I have heard the quiet conversations of all the lego people – and thought to myself how good it is to imagine other worlds, other places and other people.
And now that imagination should lead all of us to encounter God.
Again, heartfelt thanks for these ideas –
Thanks Melissa – lovely to hear from you. Hope all is well with all of you.
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