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Graeme Lamb
Contributing sermons since Jan 11, 2006
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The Kingdom Of God
Contributed on Jun 15, 2006
The parable of the sower and the mustard seed from Mark’s gospel, and what they reveal to us about God’s kingdom and God’s world
Becoming a father for the third time over the last couple of months has reminded me again of the wonder of creation. Throughout the natural world, in humanity and in animals and plant life, the same story can be seen – of amazing growth and beauty coming out of something that begins so small. This ...read more
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Might And Majesty Of God
Contributed on Jun 10, 2006
A sermon for Trinity Sunday recognising that the importance isn’t complicated analogies, but recognising God’s glory.
It always seems to be that as reach Trinity Sunday each year, we’ve reached the last ball of the season – the end of a long liturgical mix of preparation-celebration-penitence and finally more celebration that began back on Advent Sunday the previous year and which has led us gradually through the ...read more
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Waiting - Pentecost
Contributed on Jun 1, 2006
A sermon for the period between Ascension Day and Pentecost
In many ways the period between the Ascension Day and Pentecost is a period of waiting for the church. I liken it to being in the third trimester of the pregnancy out of which the church is birthed. The first trimester is the period between the birth of Jesus and his death. The period during ...read more
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Week Of Prayer For Christian Unity 2006
Contributed on Jan 23, 2006
A sermon for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2006, taken from Matthew 18
I would like to being by asking you two rhetorical questions. The first of which is why you here. There may be more than one answer – you’re committed to the idea and practice of church unity would be probably best one. Another one might be that you ’normally come to this kind of thing’ as you like ...read more
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Hospice Memorial Service
Contributed on Jan 14, 2006
This is a sermon written for a Memorial service for a local hospice, to which are invited relatives of those who have died in the last couple of months
A little over halfway through the Old Testament part of the Bible, is a relatively short and probably little read book called Ecclesiastes. There are some mysteries about this book: we don’t exactly who wrote it, although tradition tells us that the writer was King Solomon, the son of David. The ...read more