What is in Kelvin's Head?

Sermon preached on 10 November 2013

11/11/2013

What are you fighting for…in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit?

The gospel reading that we’ve just heard is a very particular one. The question is – if a man dies and his widow marries his brother, and six brothers die and she marries her way down the family, whose bride will she be in heaven.

What deep truth does this question and Jesus’s answer convey to us.

Well, I wasn’t supposed to be preaching today and swapped a couple of days ago with one of my colleagues.

The deep truth that this passage conveys to me today is always to check what the bible readings are before you agree to swap a date in the pulpit.

I’m going to start from a different place though and work my way back to what is going on in the gospel reading this morning. For the question is not straightforward at all, never mind the answer. (more…)

remembrance, Sadducees, Salvation Army

9 responses to “Tales of the City #6”

Ritualist Robert

08/09/2011

Thank you for introducing the word “stoor” to those of us in the non-Scottish world.

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Hermano David | Brother Dahâ€¢veed

08/09/2011

Have you been glowing again?

Honestly, I think that it really says something great when they know, even if in a setting where they might not know!

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Ruth

08/09/2011

I agree! As daughter of a C of S one, I’ve spent time in the company of more than my fair share. Some have ‘the aura’ and some, most definitely do not…..

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PamB

08/09/2011

Did we know that the Norwegian for vacuum cleaner is “stoorsooker”?

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Rosemary Hannah

08/09/2011

Huge compliment.

And any time you want to come here and be calm at workmen, feel free. Then I can be free to go somewhere quiet and just lose it, as I have been longing to do for some weeks …

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kelvin

08/09/2011

@PamB â€“ we didnâ€™t, but we are delighted.

@Rosemary â€“ thanks but no thanks. Being calm at someone elseâ€™s workmen is surely too much for anyone.

@Ruth â€“ the day I was ordained, the wife of a bishop told me my aura was golden. She saw them regularly.

@Hermano David â€“ You couldnâ€™t see the glow for the dust.

@Ritualist Robert â€“ happy to be of service. It is the perfect word for what is produced when you mess with chimneys.

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Ritualist Robert

09/09/2011

@PamB – delighted indeed!

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Hermano David | Brother Dahâ€¢veed

10/09/2011

You couldnâ€™t see the glow for the dust.

It is obvious that the VDW could. Good on yer.

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Rosemary Hannah

12/09/2011

What I now need is somebody to come back and be very very UNcalm at a joiner. Very very unclam indeed – new floor ends two foot short of the wall, and yes, there WAS enough wood. And good neighbour/joiner is hors de combat following a RTA.

Or you could try coming and being very calm at me, if your nerve is good enough.

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