Forgiving from the Heart
Today’s gospel reading continues the theme of how believers are to behave towards one another but it focusses on the question of forgiveness.
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Sermons
Sermons preached at St John’s in recent months, including those from our online worship while the church was closed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Click/tap on the sermon title to go to the sermon.
How to Save Your Life
Peter’s recognition of Jesus as Messiah at Caesarea Philippi is the hinge on which Matthew’s gospel turns. Jesus turns out to be a very different Messiah from the one Peter expected, and this reveals startling things about God and how God wants us to be.
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Living Water
Water as a metaphor for the Holy Spirit – a source of blessing not only to those who receive it but to those it then flows out to.
Easter in a Time of Coronavirus
This sermon explores St John’s account of the resurrection as a story of confusion, misunderstanding and uncertainty on the part of people with no exit strategy.
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New Beginnings
When Roy recorded this sermon we were hoping to be able to move back into our refurbished church building a few days later, preparatory to re-opening at the beginning of September. Unfortunately that happy event had to be further postponed while we waited for the new floor-coverings to be supplied. There’s both a text and a recorded version.
Peter on the Water
Jenni recorded this sermon on 6th August 2020. Later that same day her mother, Rosalie, was very sadly found dead in her flat in Selkirk.
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