SERMONS FROM THE MINT

 

LECTIONARY INDEX

 

 

 

Advent 1A

222

2 Dec 2007
10.30 a.m.

“An Unexpected Hour”

Mt 24:44

Advent 1A

97

28th Nov 2004
10.30 am

“Who is, was and is to come”

Rev 1:8

Advent 1C

55

30 Nov 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Abandon Hope?”

Lk 21:28

Advent 2A

223

9 Dec 2007
10.30 a.m.

“The Fire of Judgement”

Mt 3:12

Advent 2A

98

5th Dec 2004
10.30 a.m.

“The Peaceable Kingdom”

Isa 11:6

Advent 2B

142

4th Dec 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Fling Wide the Gates”

Ps 24:7

Advent 2B

11

8 Dec 2002
10.30 a.m.

“Road Building”

Isa 40:3-4

 

Advent 2C

184

10 Dec 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Refiner’s Fire”

Mal 3:2

Advent 2C

56

7 Dec 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Refiner’s Fire”

Malachi 3:2

Advent 2C
2nd Service

185

10 Dec 2006
6.30 p.m.

“Angel Voices”

Lk 1:5-25

Advent 3A

99

12th Dec 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Are you the one?”

Mt 11:2

Advent 3B

143

11th Dec 2005
6.30 p.m.

“The Wind is in the East”

Jer 18:17

Advent 4A

224

23 Dec 2007
6.30 p.m.

“The Word Made Flesh”

Jn 1:14

Advent 4C

57

21 Dec 2003
6.30 p.m.

“A Hole in the Ground”

Rom 12:21

Christmas Eve

144

24th Dec 2005
11.30 p.m.

Christmas Candles

Jn 1:5

Christmas Eve

12

24 Dec 2002
11.30 p.m.

“So Different”

Lk 2:1-20

 

Christmas Day

225

25 Dec 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Christmas Gifts”

Lk 2:1-20

 

Christmas Day

186

25 Dec 2006
10.30 a.m.

“No Room at the Inn”

Lk 2:7

 

Christmas Day

145

25th Dec 2005
10.30 a.m.

Christmas Celebration

Lk 2:1-20

 

Christmas Day

100

25th Dec 2004
10.30 a.m.

“The Gift of Jesus”

Mt 1:23

 

Christmas 1B

13

29 Dec 2002
10.30 a.m.

“Peace and the Sword”

Lk 2:29
Lk 2:35

 

Christmas 2A

101

2nd Jan 2005
6.30 p.m.

“The Child and the Goldfinch”

Mt 2:13

 

Epiphany A

226

6 Jan 2008
6.30 p.m.

“Star Signs”

Mt 2:1-12

 

Epiphany B

14

5 Jan 2003
10.30 a.m.

“What can I bring him?”

Mt 2:11

 

Epiphany C

187

7 Jan 2007
6.30 p.m.

“New Year Journey”

Gen 11:31

 

Epiphany C

58

4 Jan 2004 
6.30 p.m.

“Christmas comes but
once a year
”

Mt 2:12

 

Transfiguration
1 before Lent A

105

6th Feb 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Refugees and Transfiguration”

Mt 17:1-8

 

Transfiguration
1 before Lent B

20

2 Mar 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Glimpses of Glory”

Mk 9:2

 

Transfiguration
1 before Lent C

192

18 Feb 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Reflected Glory”

Exodus 34:30

 

Transfiguration
1 before Lent C

63

22 Feb 2004
6.30 pm

“Demons in the Valley”

Mk 9:14-29

 

Lent 1A

229

10 Feb 2008
6.30 p.m.

“Lenten Discipline”

Lk 4:2

 

Lent 1B

21

9 Mar 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Jacob’s Ladder”

Gen 28:12

 

Lent 1B

153

5th Mar 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Tears over Jerusalem”

Lam 1:1-2

 

Lent 1C

193

25 Feb 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Wilderness Choices”

Lk 4:1-13

 

Lent 1C

64

29 Feb 2004
10.30 am

“Wrestling in the Wilderness”

Lk 4:1-2

 

Lent 2A

230

17 Feb 2008
10.30 a.m.

“Have you seen the light?”

Jn 3:19-21

 

Lent 2A

106

20th Feb 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Born Again”

Jn 3:3

 

Lent 2B

154

12th Mar 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Take up your Cross”

Mk 8:34

 

Lent 2B

22

16 Mar 2003
6.30 p.m.

“Simon of Cyrene”

Mk 15:21

 

Lent 2C

65

7 Mar 2004
6.30 p.m.

“The Eye of the Needle”

Lk 18:25

 

Lent 3A

231

24 Feb 2008
10.30 a.m.

“Water, Wilderness and Promised Land: Jewish and Christian Perspectives”

Exodus 17:1-7

 

Lent 3A

107

27th Feb 2005
10.30 a.m.

“The Water of Life”

Jn 4:5-14

 

Lent 3B

23

23 Mar 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Tears over Jerusalem”

Neh 1:3-4

 

Lent 3C

194

4 Mar 2007
6.30 p.m.

“Tower and Fig Tree”

Lk 13:1-9

 

Lent 3C

66

14 March 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Behold the Lamb”

Jn 1:29

 

Lent 4A

232

2 Mar 2008
10.30 a.m.

“Mother God, Mother Earth, Mother Church”

Mt 12:48

 

Lent 4A

108

6th Mar 2005
6.30 p.m.

“Blind”

Jn 9:1-3

 

Lent 4B

26

30 Mar 2003
6.30 p.m.

“Friendly Fire”

Jn 13:21-35

 

Lent 4C

196

18 Mar 2007
10.30 a.m.

“A Borrowed World”

Jn 19:25-27

 

Passion 1A Passion Sunday

233

9 Mar 2008
10.30 a.m.

“The Galilean Accent”

Lk 22:61

 

Passion 1A
Passion Sunday

109

13th Mar 2005
6.30 p.m.

“Watching for Daybreak”

Ps 130:5-6

 

Passion 1B
Passion Sunday

156

2 April 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Why the Cross?”

Jn 12:20-26

 

Passion 1B
Passion Sunday

27

6 Apr 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Grain of Wheat”

Jn 12:24

 

Passion 1C
Passion Sunday

197

25 Mar 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Free At Last”

Lk 4:18

 

Passion 1C
Passion Sunday

67

28 March 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Extravagance”

Jn 12:5

 

Passion 2A
Palm Sunday

234

16 Mar 2008
6.30 p.m.

“Donkey Work”

Lk 19:31

 

Passion 2C
Palm Sunday

198

1 Apr 2007
6.30 p.m.

“I.N.R.I”

Jn 19:19

 

Passion 2C
Palm Sunday

68

4th April 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Balaam’s Ass”

Num 22:21-35

 

Passiontide

157

9 April 2006
6.30 p.m.

“St Veronica”

Mk 15:16-39

 

Passiontide

155

26th Mar 2006
6.30 p.m.

“Judas Iscariot”

Mt 26:14-16

 

Good Friday B

158

14 April 2006
10.00 a.m.

“Nailed to the Tree”

Jn 19:17-30

 

Good Friday B

28

18 Apr 2003
10.00 a.m.

“Christ Recrucified”

Jn 19:18

 

Easter Sunday A

235

23 Mar 2008
10.30 a.m.

“What is life
after death like?
”

Jn 14:2-4

 

Easter Sunday A

110

27th Mar 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Rise from the Ruins”

Mt 28:1-10

 

Easter Sunday B

159

16 April 2006
10.30 a.m.

“New Life”

Jn 20:1-18

 

Easter Sunday B

29

20 Apr 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Easter Dawn”

Jn 20:1

 

Easter Sunday C

199

8 Apr 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Chocolat”

Jn 11:25

 

Easter Sunday C

69

11th April 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Rabbuni”

Jn 20:16

 

Easter 2B

160

23 April 2006
6.30 p.m.

“Stranger on the Shore”

Jn 21:1-14

 

Easter 2C

70

18th April 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Obedience”

Acts 5:29

 

Easter 3A

236

6 April 2008
10.30 a.m.

“Emmaus Encounters”

Lk 24:15

 

Easter 3A

112

10th April 2005
10.30 a.m.

“On the Road to Emmaus”

Lk 24:13-35

 

Easter 3B

30

4 May 2003
6.30 p.m

“For whom the bell tolls”

Jn 10:10

 

Easter 3C

71

25th April 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Follow Me”

Jn 21:3

 

Easter 4A

237

13 April 2008
6.30 p.m.

The Good Shepherd

Jn 10:11

 

Easter 5A

238

20 April 2008
10.30 a.m.

"No One Comes to the Father but by me - Universalism & John 14:6"

Jn 14:6

 

Easter 5A

113

24th April 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Only One Way?”

Jn 14:6

 

Easter 5C

72

9th May 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Life before Death”

Rev 21:4

 

Easter 5C

202

6 May 2007
6.30 p.m.

“The Lions’ Den”

Daniel 6:16-17

 

Easter 6A

114

1st May 2005
10.30 a.m.

“God’s Carpenters”

2 Cor 6:1a

 

Easter 6C

73

16th May 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Thick darkness broodeth yet”

Jn 1:5

 

Ascension 1A

240

4 May 2008
6.30 p.m.

“Ascension Day Parable”

Luke 24:51

 

Ascension 1B

34

1 June 2003
6.30 p.m.

“The Throne and the Mountain”

Rev 4:10-11

 

Ascension 1B

163

28 May 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Up, up and away”

Lk 24:51

 

Ascension 1C

74

23rd May 2004
10.30 a.m.

“All may be saved”

Lk 15:4

 

Ascension 1C

203

20 May 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Social Holiness”

Mt 16:26

 

Pentecost A

241

11 May 2008
10.30 a.m.

“God of many voices”

Acts 2:11

 

Pentecost A

116

15th May 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Gifts of the Spirit”

1 Cor 12:7

 

Pentecost B

35

8 June 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Cairns and Cathedrals”

1 Peter 2:5

Pentecost C

204

27 May 2007
6.30 p.m.

“Speaking with Tongues”

1 Cor 12:7-11

Pentecost C

75

30th May 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Unity and Diversity”

Acts 2:6

Trinity A

242

18 May 2008
10.30 a.m.

“God’s Building”

1 Cor 3:9

Trinity A

117

22nd May 2005
10.30 a.m.

“God is Love”

I John 4:8

Trinity B

164

11 June 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Border Controls”

Eph 2:19-22

Trinity B

36

15 June 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Cross and Orb”

Mt 28:19

Trinity C

205

3 June 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Bourne and Clowes”

Isa 6:1-8

Christ the King
Sunday before Advent A

140

20th Nov 2005
10.30 a.m.

“The Least of These”

Mt 25:36

Christ the King Sunday Before Advent A

10

24 Nov 2002 
6.30 p.m.

“Christ the King”

Jn 19:22

Christ the King Sunday before Advent B

183

26 Nov 2006
10.30 a.m.

“The King over the Water”

Jn 18:36

Christ the King Sunday before Advent B

54

23 Nov 2003
6.30 p.m.

“King Eliab?”

1 Sam 16:6

Ordinary 1B

15

12 Jan 2003
10.30 a.m.

“The Heavens Opened”

Mk 1:10

Ordinary 2B

147

15th Jan 2006
10.30 a.m.

“The Heavens Opened”

John 1:51

Ordinary 2C

60

18 Jan 2004 
10.30 a.m.

“When the wine runs out”

Jn 2:3

Ordinary 4B

17

2 Feb 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Heart of Darkness?”

Mk 1:27

Ordinary 4C

189

28 Jan 2007
10.30 a.m.

“The Homecoming”

Lk 4:24

Ordinary 4C

61

1 Feb 2004
10.30 a.m.

“A Clanging Cymbal”

1 Cor 13:1

Ordinary 6B

150

12th Feb 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Running the Race”

1 Cor 9:24-5

Ordinary 6B

18

16 Feb 2003
10.30 a.m.

“The Servant, River and Soil”

2 Kings 5:1-17

Ordinary 6C

62

15 Feb 2004
10.30 am

“The cursθd tree”

Jer 17:5-6

Ordinary 7B

151

19th Feb 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Finding Forgiveness”

Mk 2:5

Ordinary 7B

19

23 Feb 2003
6.30 p.m.

“Polycarp’s Cup”

Mt 20:22

Ordinary 10A

118

5th June 2005
10.30 a.m.

“The Fringe of his Cloak”

Mt 9:20

Ordinary 11B

165

18 June 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Mustard Seeds”

Mk 4:30-32

Ordinary 11C

207

17 June 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Naboth’s Vineyard”

1 Kings 21:2

Ordinary 12A

120

19th June 2005
6.30 p.m.

“Isaac and Ishmael”

Gen 21:8-21

Ordinary 13B

37

29 June 2003
10.30 a.m.

“The hem of his garment”

Mk 5:27

Ordinary 14A

122

3rd July 2005
10.30 a.m

“The Heavy Yoke”

1 Kings 12:14

Ordinary 14B

166

9 July 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Thorn in the Flesh”

2 Cor 12:7

Ordinary 14B

38

6 July 2003
6.30 p.m.

“A thorn in the flesh”

2 Cor 12:7

Ordinary 15C

210

15 July 2007
6.30 p.m.

“The Plumb Line”

Amos 7:7

Ordinary 17A

124

24th July 2005
6.30 p.m.

“Buried Treasure”

Mt 13:44

Ordinary 18A

125

31st July 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Wrestling Jacob”

Gen 32:24

Ordinary 18B

40

3 August 2003
10.30 a.m.

“You are the Man”

2 Sam 12:7

Ordinary 18B

169

6 August 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Casualties of War”

2 Sam 12:7

Ordinary 18C

211

5 Aug 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Real Wealth”

Luke 12:15

Ordinary 18C

82

1st Aug 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Building Barns”

Luke 12:18-20

Ordinary 19A

126

7th Aug 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Walking on Water”

Mt 14:25

Ordinary 19B

170

13 Aug 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Food for the Journey”

1 Kings 19:7

Ordinary 20A

127

14th Aug 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Crumbs from the Table”

Mt 15:26

Ordinary 20B

41

17 August 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Living wisely”

Eph 5:15-16

Ordinary 20C

213

19 Aug 2007
10.30 a.m.

“The Hammer of the Lord”

Jer 23:29

Ordinary 20C

84

15th Aug 2004
10.30 a.m.

“A Cloud of Witnesses”

Heb 12:1

Ordinary 21A

128

21st Aug 2005
6.30 p.m

“Chariots of Fire”

2 Kings 6:16

Ordinary 21B

42

24 August 2003
6.30 p.m.

“The Doorkeeper”

Ps 84:10

Ordinary 21C

85

22nd Aug 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Standing before the Mountain”

Exodus 19:17
Heb 12:22

Ordinary 22A

1

1 Sept 2002 
10.30 a.m.

“The Burning Bush”

Exodus 3:2

Ordinary 22B

172

3 Sept 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Non Angli Sed Angeli”

Mk 7:4
Heb 13:2

Ordinary 22C

214

2 Sept 2007
10.30 am

“Entertaining Angels”

Heb 13:2

Ordinary 23A

129

4th Sept 2005
10.30 a.m.

“The Blood of the Lamb”

Exodus 12:13

Ordinary 23A

2

8 Sept 2002 
10.30 a.m.

“Loving Confrontation”

Rom 13:9
Mt 18:15

Ordinary 23B

43

7 Sept 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Ephphatha”

Mk 7:34

Ordinary 23C

215

9 Sept 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Onesimus”

Philemon v.16

Ordinary 23C

86

5th Sept 2004
10.30 a.m.

“The Potter”

Jer 18:6

Ordinary 23C

81

25th July 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Knocking at the Door”

Luke 11:9

Ordinary 23C

79

27th June 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Elijah’s Mantle”

2 Kings 2:14

Ordinary 23C

78

20th June 2004
6.30 p.m.

“28 Days Later”

Lk 8:27

Ordinary 24A

243

14th Sept 2008
10.30 a.m.

“A Tribal God?”

Exod 14.30

Ordinary 24A

130

11th Sept 2005
10.30 a.m.

“70 times 7”

Mt 18:22

Ordinary 24A

3

15 Sept 2002 
6.30 p.m.

“Lamech’s Song”

Gen 4:19-26

Ordinary 24B

174

17 Sept 2006
6.30 p.m.

“Take up your Cross”

Mk 8:34-5

Ordinary 24B

44

14 Sept 2003
6.30 p.m.

“Skin Deep”

Rom 12:10

Ordinary 24C

87

12th Sept 2004
10.30 a.m.

“Feed My Sheep”

John 21:17

Ordinary 25B

45

21 Sept 2003
10.30 a.m.

“First Class Seats”

Mk 9:34

Ordinary 25C

88

19th Sept 2004
6.30 p.m.

“God Save the King”

1 Tim 2:1-2

Ordinary 26C

216

30 Sept 2007
10.30 a.m.

“The Field at Anathoth”

Jer 32:9

Ordinary 27A

133

2nd Oct 2005
10.30 a.m.

“The 11 Commandments”

Exodus 20

Ordinary 27A

5

6 Oct 2002 
10.30 a.m.

“Idol Talk”

Exodus 20:4

Ordinary 27B

177

8 Oct 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Why do good people suffer

Job 1:21

Ordinary 27B

47

5 Oct 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Childlike Faith”

Mk 10:15
1 Cor 13:11

Ordinary 27C

217

7 Oct 2007
10.30 a.m.

“Is God Listening?”

Hab 1:2

Ordinary 28A

134

9th Oct 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Golden Calves”

Exodus 32:4

Ordinary 28B

178

15 Oct 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Money Money Money”

Mk 10:25

Ordinary 28B

49

12 Oct 2003
10.30 a.m.

“A Two edged Sword”

Heb 4:12

Ordinary 28C

218

14 Oct 2007
6.30 p.m.

“Spinalonga”

Lev 13:45-6
Lk 17:14

Ordinary 28C

91

10th Oct 2004
10.30 am

“Ten Lepers”

Lk 17:11-19

Ordinary 29A

6

20 Oct 2002 
10.30 a.m.

“Render unto Caesar”

Mt 22:17

Ordinary 30A

136

23rd Oct 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Promises, Promises

Dt 34:1,4

Ordinary 30B

50

26 Oct 2003
10.30 a.m.

“Turning a Blind Eye”

Mk 10:51

Ordinary 30B

180

29 Oct 2006
10.30 a.m.

“Three Wise Monkeys”

Mk 10:51

Ordinary 30C

93

24th Oct 2004
6.30 p.m.

“Cast your bread on the water”

Eccles 11:1-2

Ordinary 32A

137

6th Nov 2005
10.30 a.m.

“Day of Judgement”

Mt 25:41

Ordinary 33A

9

17 Nov 2002
10.30 a.m.

“Buried Talents”

Mt 25:25

Ordinary 33B
2nd Service

182

19 Nov 2006
6.30 p.m.

“The Fourth Man”

Daniel 3


Updated 7 Sept 08

 

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