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Rev Darrow's Sermons: October 2011
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Saturday, October 29, 2011. Saints: past, present and future. This young man did not get far in his education. He’d gone to a private school, but was easily distracted from his studies, and was far more interested in popular music, and fashion, than in higher learning. His father tried to involve him in the business- gave him a sales position, but he was terrible at keeping track of money, and actually gave away more goods than he sold. This morning the Sunday School kids will hear one of the most famous...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: September 2011
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Sunday, September 25, 2011. Jesus walked into the temple in Jerusalem, the centre of cultural and religious power of the Jewish world, and began to teach. Jesus was well known to the chief priests and other temple leader. He had a growing following amongst the poor and common people, and the temple crowd saw him as a challenge to their way of doing things, and their interpretations of faithful living. By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority? In this way of thinking, ...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: March 2012
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Saturday, March 24, 2012. Life, Death, and New Life: the Eternal Cycle. Do you remember “Turn, turn, turn”? Written in 1959 by Pete Seeger, it was recorded by several folk artists, and became a top 40 hit in 1965 for The Byrds. During the Vietnam War, the words about a time to live and a time to die, a time for war, and a time for peace, carried special significance. Not the first or last time scripture has served to challenge conventional thinking. The lyrics are based on the 3. What is going on? Jesus ...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: August 2011
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Sunday, August 21, 2011. Homer Simpson asks God a Question. I’ve had good feedback on this series based on faith questions . One person said it has primed the pump in their mind, and reminded them of questions they’ve had for a long time. I am glad. It is important that Trinity be a place where questions are welcomed, and encouraged. Says that if you get stuck in quicksand, the worst thing you can do is struggle. They say that if you fall into quicksand, “. Resist the natural instinct to kick your way out.
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: January 2012
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Sunday, January 22, 2012. The Bible and How we use it. This is the Good News that Jesus came to teach. This is the Good News that draws us here, and feeds us, comforts us, energizes us, and then sends us back out into the world. To explain what I mean by that, I need to say a few things about what the Bible is, and how it has often been used. For hundreds of years before and after the time of Jesus, most Jewish people would have heard only portions of texts read from scrolls in the Jerusalem temple, or i...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: October 2012
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Sunday, October 28, 2012. Raising a ruckus: Malala and other prophetic voices. Desmond Tutu nominated Malala for the International Children’s Peace Prize, and her own country awarded her Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize. With all the positive public attention, she also attracted the anger and hostility of the Taliban. But later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to a hospital in England for intensive rehabilitation. Just days after Malala was shot a group of Muslim clerics issued a fat...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: Wishing and Hoping
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Saturday, December 1, 2012. We have begun the season of Advent. Advent is the English version of the latin word adventus, which means “coming”. If we know something is coming, we are in some sense waiting for it to arrive. Over the millennia, Advent developed as a time of waiting for a new coming of Christ in the world. On one level, it may mean that we are moving towards the celebration of the birth of Jesus. But that is not the original meaning of the season. But understandable, especially for us who l...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: Peaceful Steps
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Saturday, December 8, 2012. The first reading we heard this morning from Luke’s Gospel contains words coming from the mouth of a father, about the birth of his son, who grows up to be John the Baptist. Like Jesus, John is a Biblical character with an interesting birth story. 8220;How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”. The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. They sai...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: November 2012
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Saturday, November 24, 2012. It is fascinating to me how some of the profound truths of life in this world can be found in the games people play. You can take that statement on a number of levels. As a game of checkers progresses, there will arise the possibility of advancing one of your pieces all the way to the other end of the board. When you land a checker in your opponents back row, you then get to say, “King me! These games point to the darker realities that underlie the human enterprise- they remi...
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Rev Darrow's Sermons: December 2012
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Saturday, December 8, 2012. The first reading we heard this morning from Luke’s Gospel contains words coming from the mouth of a father, about the birth of his son, who grows up to be John the Baptist. Like Jesus, John is a Biblical character with an interesting birth story. 8220;How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”. The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. They sai...
