Sunday 29th September, 2019 Pastor Noel Due – audio and transcript of sermon preached at St Petri.https://stpetri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190929_message.mp3 We’ve got  three readings before us this morning.  As you’ll see from the bulletin notes on the front page, these are centuries apart. One is the story of Jeremiah buying a plot of land. He is buying that plot of land immediately before the catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem. So when everything is torn up a

Love and obedience  Sermon, Easter 6B, Sunday 6th May, 2018. St Petri Pastor David Preuss John 15:9-17 Jesus calls us his friends9 ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. 13 Grea

Sermon 1 John 1:1 – 2:2 The Word that gives life was from the beginning, and this is the one our message is about. Our ears have heard, our own eyes have seen, and our hands touched this Word. John is the son of Zebedee and Silome, probably younger brother to James; a professional net fisherman in the family business around the Sea of Galilee. He and his brother must have been God listeners; God searchers, because it seem highly likely that they both went down to the Jordan

Sermon:  St Stephen’s Day St Petri, Dec 29th, 2013 Acts 6:5b-15. 5They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 6 They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.8 Now Stephen, a man full

Sermon: Pentecost 11C Sunday August 4, 2013, St Petri Always Will Hosea 11:1-11 View the media file “Always will” at the beginning of the sermon. “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from me.[a] They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images. 3 It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them. 4 I led the

Short Homily Maundy Thursday Night, 2013 Rite of Footwashing, St Petri In a way we cannot miss tonight—we proclaim and celebrate the realty that Jesus is a Servant king serving us always with his life and love and grace. This sets him apart from all other world religious symbols and leaders. The Servant King is completely unique and his serving is revolutionary to us. The Servant King is THE king—the Way, the Truth and the life for all people. Will we turn away from his servi

Sunday April 29, 2012 Combined Service, St Petri John 10:11-18 Good Shepherd love 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sh