Sermons

Fr Jon’s most recent sermons can be listened to below. You can also check out the archive here.

Sunday June 17

In the life of faith, everyone has a part, and only by joining together do we make the beautiful song of God’s love.

Readings: Ezekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92:1-4,11-14 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34

Sunday June 10

Who we expect Jesus to be shapes our reality and our response as His followers. Is our hope big enough for His vision for us?

Readings: 1 Samuel 8:4-20 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35

Sunday May 27 – Trinity Sunday

Allow yourself to be swept up in Christ’s love to be an agent of grace in the world

READINGS: Isaiah 6:1-8 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17 Psalm 29

Sunday May 20 – Pentecost

Pentecost isn’t just something that happened to a faraway people a long time ago, it is an unfolding event that is happening to us all the time.

READINGS: Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Psalm 104:25-35, 37

Sunday May 13

Christ’s ascension means that God trusts us to do what is right and to be agents of the coming reign of Christ

READINGS: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19 Psalm 1

Sunday May 6

What does Jesus mean by “love” and how are supposed to “abide in it?”

Readings: Acts 10:44-48 1 John 5:1-6 John 15:9-17 Psalm 98

Sunday April 15

What we are going to be has not been revealed to us; but Jesus invites forward into deeper relationship always. We are always becoming christ’s new creation.

Readings: Acts 3:12-19 1 John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 Psalm 4

Easter Day April 1st

When Jesus’ women followers went, in grief, to his tomb they encountered an angel who told them; “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, `He has been raised from the dead. What a cruel joke that must have seemed to them. Everyone knows the dead and buried don’t get up again.

Readings: Romans 6:3-11 Matthew 28:1-10 Psalm 114

Palm Sunday March 25th

Hope is the most scandalous promise of Jesus.

Readings: Mark 11:1-1 Philippians 2:5-11 Mark 14:1-15:47

Sunday March 18th

Jesus’ suffering and death was his own choice, but even he hoped not to make it. What could possibly compel such a choice?

Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 Psalm 51:1-13

Sunday March 11th

You were there when they crucified the Lord

Readings: Numbers 21:4-9 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

Sunday Feb 25th

Love that serves our own interests first isn’t really love, and sometimes that “love” is just another’s temptation.

Readings: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Psalm 22:22-30

Sunday Feb 18th

Jesus was tempted in every way as we are, and yet did not sin; the temptations in the wilderness are archetypes of the ones we face right here, right now. Justice and peace are not possible for us so long as we continue to give into them.

Links: In the Name of Jesus by Henry Nouwen

Readings: Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Psalm 25:1-9

Sunday Feb 11th

Jesus invites us into abundant life; how do we get there?

Readings: 2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 Psalm 50:1-6

Sunday Feb 4th

What does it mean exactly that we are “saved?” Are we saved ‘from’ something or ‘for’ something?

Readings: Isaiah 40:21-31 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c

Sunday Jan 21st

Jonah is the most peevish and half-hearted of prophets, yet God does amazing things with his meager effort

Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 Psalm 62:6-14

Sunday Jan 14th

We don’t read the Bible because it’s some kind of owner’s manual for humans but because in seeing how God (who is constant and consistent) has responded to human troubles in the past helps us to see God’s work in our midst today.