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Michael Hopkins
Contributing sermons since Aug 25, 2005
Newest Sermons
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The Heartbreaking Messiah
Contributed on Sep 7, 2021
A sermon exploring heartbreak and suffering through peter and the disicples
Mark 8:27-38 Have you ever heard the sound of a heart breaking? Do you remember what it sounds like? Maybe it was your child's heart breaking when they found that the job market had disappeared? Maybe it was your sister or brother's heart breaking when the test results were worse than ...read more
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Psalm 1
Contributed on Sep 7, 2021
A short sermon exploring Psalm 1
Psalm 1 Charles Wesley wrote the hymn O for a thousand tongues in 1739 on the anniversary of his conversion experience. It was published in the first collection of Methodist hymns in 1780 where it was number one, and for two centuries it was number one in every Methodist hymnbook since then until ...read more
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Lent 2021
Contributed on Feb 17, 2021
A sermon for the start of Lent 2021
I think this is the point where I am supposed to talk about Lent being a penitential time, and time for giving things up, but that seems patent nonsense in 2021. In the last eleven months we have given up more than we ever wished for longer than we would have wished. And we have lost some people ...read more
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Taking A Leap
Contributed on Jan 26, 2020
A challenge to take leap of faith - a risk - for God
Genesis 12:1-9 Hebrews 11:1-3 & 8-12 Psalm 91 Mark 1:16-20 This year is a leap year. 29 February is a special day which comes round only once every four years. 29 February is considered by some as a day to do something out of the usual, such as women proposing marriage to men. Radio 4’s PM ...read more
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Who?
Contributed on May 26, 2013
Use of Jeremiah, John, and Luke, to bring out three persons of the Trinity, and an analogy with TV programme Dr Who - different faces and mystery.
Luke 19:1-10 Jeremiah 32:21-25 John 20:19-23 As a child, I always enjoyed Dr Who on a Saturday teatime. For me, Tom Baker was the doctor - the others who came after weren’t quite the same. Perhaps, for you it was Jon Pertwee who was the doctor, or Patrick Troughton, or William ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Seven Churches
Contributed on Oct 17, 2005
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Seven Churches Of Asia
Contributed on Oct 4, 2005
Newest Sermon Illustrations
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A Man Fell Into A Pit…
Contributed on Aug 25, 2005
A man fell into a pit and he couldn’t get out. BUDDHA said: "Your pit is only a state of mind." A HINDU said: "This pit is for purging you and making you more perfect.” CONFUCIUS said: "If you would have listened to me, you would never have fallen into that pit." A NEW AGE PERSON said: "Maybe ...read more