Sermons
Trinity is a deep part of my faith and yet it is always difficult to talk about because it is so counter to our lived experience with our time and space bound bodies. So, I’m going to tell you a couple of stories; one to illustrate the Trinity and one to illustrate the importance of that mystical truth.
We were joined by the Reverend Greg Jenks. Here is the link to his sermon.
Let’s cast our minds back to the flood.
There is a parallel in every ancient culture. A very similar story to ours appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia, about 4000 years old. There are some important things we should notice about the ancient world and why the God of the Israelites was so counter-cultural.
I do confess myself to be a little apprehensive about my sermon today, because it might be a little challenging…
Paul says that the ‘god of this world’ keeps people in darkness. I think that we have seen a fair bit of darkness in the world in the last couple of years. It’s not easy seeing wars, and genocides, and all kinds of sickness that happen in the world. I think sometimes (no, I know!) when it happens on your back doorstep, we feel it so much more. When children murder people, the world seems very, very, dark. So the question is, where is the light? Because it is in very, very, dark places that the light has opportunity to shine even more brightly.
Have you ever heard the saying: God does not call the equipped, God equips the called?
We see it time and again in the scriptures. Noah, Moses, David, today we hear of Peter and Andrew, James and John.
We could possibly add, God calls the recalcitrant when thinking of Jonah.
And maybe, God calls the dogmatically zealous when thinking about Paul.
