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Do not be afraid

A Sermon for Easter Day – Year A – Matthew 28:1-10 It is a bit of a commonplace among some science-y types that humans are insignificant in comparison to the universe and all the many things in it. They love to point out how small humans are, how a brief a human life is, in […]

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Easter Sermon

No-one knew it was Holy Saturday that first time. No-one who lived through Good Friday would have called it anything but evil, terrible, destructive. The end of all that they had hoped for. All that excitement – the drama of being called and leaving everything to follow this new rabbi, the gradual buildup of the […]

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Practice Resurrection: Easter Morning Sermon

What does the resurrection of Jesus mean? What is it to “believe” in the resurrection? Ultimately, does it, or anything, really matter?