Here’s Cedric’s sermon for the City of Glasgow from this morning’s worship.
5 responses to “20111224 Midnight Mass – Sermon”
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Christmas Sermons…
Today’s Church Times has reports of several Christmas Day sermons: ‘Atomised’ Britain is urged to seek God’s forgiveness. The full texts of some are available online. Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of Wales Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of St A…
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“Christ is born and all shall be well” – sounds very like Jeremiah’s “peace, peace”, but there was not peace.
Substance is all important, whether it’s in the content of sermons or websites.
Throughout His life, and especially in His communication with the religious Jesus took great care to communicate substantially lest at the end many should come to Him, saying Lord, Lord and He would then have to say – I don’t know you.
Crowded churches or busy websites in themselves are nothing, as we all know – so let’s not encourage folks to busy themselves with such digressions.
But there are ways in which we should be busying ourselves – Jesus had a lot to say about that – including our presence for worship and even the content of websites!-
> Jesus had a lot to say about …. even the content of websites!
Oh no he didn’t!
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Kelvin, your understanding of scripture is amazingly narrow, even literalistic – at times!!
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That may well be so.
However, I do understand irony.
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