Sermon for Easter 5
Sermon For Easter 5 Lerwick and yell 2019 I have just got back from my parents home (as many of you will know) It is the place where I grew up, and I guess really … yes it is still …
Sermon for Easter 4
12th May at St Magnus’ Lerwick I might say that over the past weeks my life has been dominated by death. There have been the usual funerals where sometimes the topic is raised, though strangely when I think on it, …
Easter 3 5th May
Awakening; a new way of seeing by Helen Randall Learning the names of the children in my class, when I was a primary school teacher, was an important way of helping the children settle in at the start of the …
Fourth Before Lent. 10th February
I had thought last week that I was drawing a line under the Epiphany as we gathered for the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. The thought that we had seen the manifestation of God (Epiphany) and then witnessed the …
Feast of Presentation 3rd Feburary
Pewsheet for 3rd Feb
Sermon for the Feast of the Presentation
Well we have seen this coming… here we are in the Temple presenting Jesus again. Simeon and Anna who have been waiting for the fulfilment of God all their lives are here too and they recognise this fulfilment in Jesus. …
Fourth Sunday of Epiphany
sermon: Sermon For Fourth Sunday of Epiphany 2019 Lerwick I must say that I have been both fascinated and challenged by the exploration of Epiphany this year. Today this time is drawing to a conclusion, with the finale next week …
Pewsheet for 27th January 2019
Pewsheet for 27Jan
sermon for 3rd Sunday of Epiphany
Water into wine? Following on from last week (how could I resist?) but without the flipchart! We encounter the infamous story today of Jesus turning a considerably large quantity of water into the best wine that people at a wedding …
Sermon for Sunday 18th November
Sermon for 2nd Sunday before Advent (B) These weeks before Advent, known to us now as “the kingdom season” it is the time we direct our thoughts to what we mean as the victory of Christ. What exactly is …