Over the last couple of Sundays, among the things we’ve heard about in our Gospel readings have been the disciple’s lack of understanding and their disbelief as they heard the news of Jesus’ Resurrection. Today we read about how Jesus ‘opened their minds’ so that they would understand and believe. And it was essentialContinue reading “Sermon: Third Sunday of Easter, 18th April 2021”
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Sermon: Second Sunday of Easter, 11th April 2021
In this morning’s Gospel, we heard the well-known story of the disciple, Thomas. I don’t know about you, but I feel a little sorry for Thomas because I think he gets unfairly singled out for a bad rap. We call him ‘Doubting Thomas’, don’t we? Doubting Thomas, the one who didn’t believe that Jesus hadContinue reading “Sermon: Second Sunday of Easter, 11th April 2021”
Sermon: Easter Day 4th April, 2021
I wonder if we can put ourselves in the disciple’s shoes as they woke on the first Easter morning? Just a week before they’d been preparing to enter Jerusalem with Jesus and for what they must have thought was going to be some sort of victory parade. Those thoughts can only have been increased asContinue reading “Sermon: Easter Day 4th April, 2021”
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