This Advent we’ve been lighting candles for Hope, Peace, Joy and Love, and Christian World Service are requesting our help in providing water for those who need it. So I thought I’d enrich the mood of this sermon by relating two of our family’s water experiences … [To read more, click on title]
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What’s Outside Your Gate?
Admit it: society thinks of the well-to-do as ‘somebody’, treating them with respect and honour, while we treat the destitute with scorn and judgment. We think of them as a ‘nobody’.
In Jesus’s story of a rich man and a poor man notice how he reverses that. The rich man is not named; other than his riches he’s nobody in particular. But the poor man is somebody. He has a name: Lazarus … [To read more, click on the title]