Category Archives: sermon

The people’s epiphany

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

When the wise men came to Herod with the news of a saviour, the establishment replied, “Yes, but that is not how we do things here. We know that God has promised something new, but we are happy with the old ways.” One doesn’t have to be as mad and as murderous as Herod in order to shoot down initiatives and new ideas that might, in fact, have been inspired by the heavens. Continue reading →

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Beholding glory

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

God’s grace and mercy have never left us, passing over us and shielding us from more than we can imagine; but how much glory can we handle, human as we are? Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve: even unto Bethlehem

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

When we had had our fill of the manger, we headed out to the Shepherds’ Field, where the angels sang their Gloria, and announced peace to the weary and waiting world. Continue reading →

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As God is my promise

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

What would the world be if we all acted as Elizabeth? How would it be if we were to greet everyone as Mary, the God-bearer, since we know that everyone who passes before us bears the image of God? Continue reading →

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I heard it from an angel …

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

“I heard it from an angel, who heard it from a shepherd, who heard it from his sheep, who heard it from a donkey, who heard it from an ox that you had a baby tonight. Continue reading →

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Good news, you brood of vipers!

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

“If you have two coats, give one to someone who has been left out in the cold,” offers John. It is almost literally the least we could do. Continue reading →

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TLK W GOD

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is our calling to cry out the goodness of God in Christ; not as a way of advertising our own services, but for the sake of the gospel itself, because we know that life is better with God, that we are comforted by the Sacraments of Christ, and the communion of saints. Continue reading →

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Stand up for Advent

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Do not become consumed by signs of turmoil. Stand up. Raise your heads. Give voice to the gospel. Expect God. Continue reading →

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The widow’s might

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

what if the widow’s mite was hope, and she spent all she had to live on

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Salt and sabbatical

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

But that is the theology of Thomas the Tank Engine, who longs only to hear the Fat Controller call him “a useful little engine.” It is not the theology found in the Bible nor in the Word of God, Jesus the Christ, who celebrates the meek and the helpless, the poor in spirit and the hopeless, the errant and the outcast, the ungodlike. Continue reading →

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