Posted by friarpuk on 3rd November 2009
Sermon: Temporary Tears/ Text: Revelation 21:1-6a/ Preaching Date: 1/11/09, All Saints Day (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: What causes tears in your life? Do you realise that those who trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation, tears are temporary and in heaven they will be removed forever? Remaining in Christ is a sure way of knowing that one day we will never have cause for tears. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 23rd September 2009
Sermon: The Desert Oak/ Text: Psalm 1/ Preaching Date: 20/9/09, Pentecost 16 Proper 20(Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: Trees in the desert seem to defy the odds of being there. We as christians also defy the odds of existing in a world that seems impossible in which to exist. But we live like trees in the desert, because of Christ who grounds us in our existence and sustains us into eternity. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 28th August 2009
Sermon: Paper, Scissors, Rock/ Text: John 6:63/ Preaching Date: 23/8/09, Pentecost 12 Proper 16(Year B)/ Location: Katanning-Narrogin Parish Service, at Wagin, Western Australia
Focus: To see who goes first, to see who gets the best, kids can play “Paper, Scissors, Rock”. Unfortunately many grow into adults thinking they can juggle another three things to make themselves strong, namely popularity, wealth, and time. But in reality we have no control over any of these let alone ourselves. Even those who have popularity find themselves lonely, the wealthy fine themselves poor, and those seeking time never have enough. We are therefore called not to trust the flesh or anything that perishes, rather we are called to trust in Jesus Chirst. From whom we receive the Spirit and life! Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 18th August 2009
Sermon: The Spirit of Widsom/ Text:Ephesians 5:15-20/ Preaching Date: 16/8/09, Pentecost 11 Proper 15 (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: How does one get wisdom? Even greater - how does one get the wisdom which God desires? This is wisdom in accordance with the will of God. Let’s turn to the Word of God to find out! Listen on…
Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 4th August 2009
Sermon: Eat your Cake and have it too/ Text: John 6:27/ Preaching Date: 02/8/09, Pentecost 9 Proper 13 (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: When we desire something it can lead us to covet with our minds and hearts, and sometimes it leads to sin with our mouths and actions. King David desired Bathsheba and it led him to falling deep into sin. When our desires are fulfilled, the feelings associated with the desire disappear along with the yearning desire. In this way one can’t eat their cake and have it too. The desire just doesn’t stick around. But when we desire Christ and are satisfied, we can eat this “Divine Cake” of desire and still continue to have it. Such is the eternal nature of God given desires of faith and hope, and their fulfilment in eternal love. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 28th July 2009
Sermon: Seated & Fed/ Text: John 6:5b, 10a, 12b, 20b / Preaching Date: 26/7/09, Pentecost 8 Proper 12 (Year B)/ Location: St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Katanning, Western Australia
Focus: When we sit in Church we sit in God’s presence. When we sit we sit in God’s holy rest. God sits us down, forgives us and feeds us. This is the place of true rest, true peace, which surpasses all human understanding. This is what the world needs and craves for yet looks for in all the wrong places. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 3rd June 2009
Sermon: Eager Expectations/ Text: Romans 8:22-27/ Preaching Date: 31/5/09, Pentecost (Year B)/ Location: St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Katanning, Western Australia
Focus: What do you eagerly expect of your life? What causes you to groan? You can expect something so much better than what this world offers. Perhaps you groan in the knowledge of this world and your life in this world will oneday end. But this present age is not worth the glory that one day will be revealed in us. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 23rd May 2009
Sermon: Joy-filled/ Text: John 15:9-11; 16:22-24/ Preaching Date: 17/5/09, Easter 6 (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: To have joy or to rejoice is different to being happy. In fact one can be joyful in the midst of great sadness! Find out why! Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 12th May 2009
Sermon: Evergreen/ Text: John 15:1-5/ Preaching Date: 10/5/09, Easter 5 (Year B)/ Location: St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Katanning, Western Australia
Focus: We prune our gardens to make them better, to look better, and to produce better. God pruned Israel very harshly! He pruned it to one and then even placed him on the dead wood of the cross. But from the stump of Jesse Israel was reborn at Easter, the day of the resurrection! And now we are grafted into the new vine of Israel. And in this Christ vine God continues to prune us so that we are acceptable to him in Christ. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 5th May 2009
Sermon: Shepherd of the Sheep/ Text: John 10:11-18/ Preaching Date: 3/5/09, Easter 4 Good Shepherd Sunday (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: Jesus is the Lamb of God, sent to be the atoning sacrifice for our sin. Yet in knowing our human condition and living in it without sin, he is truly our Good Shepherd since he died for his sheep, and now leads us towards the reality of eternity having been raised in power over death and the devil. Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 21st April 2009
Sermon: Hear, Believe, then See/ Text: John 20:24-31/ Preaching Date: 19/4/09, Easter 2 (Year B)/ Location: St Stephen’s Lutheran Church, Katanning, Western Australia
Focus: For most seeing is believeing. But for Christians who live by faith believing is seeing. And we believe by hearing first. Hearing is the sense of community. If no one listens there is no community! Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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Posted by friarpuk on 23rd March 2009
Sermon: God Sent Snakes/ Text: Numbers 21:4-9/ Preaching Date: 22/03/09, Lent 4 (Year B)/ Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, Narrogin, Western Australia
Focus: When the going gets tough and we are tempted to growl against God we here in the reading that he doesn’t take away the harsness but rather looks for trust and faith in the wilderness of our lives. God so loved the Israelites that he sent snakes. It’s what we least expect! Grace Mercy & Peace. Friarpuk
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