Sermon by David Cowley, 18 Sep 2011
Sermon 18 September 2011 Amazing grace Intro Grape harvest time in Alsace : race to pick the crop – recruiting even foreign workers as well as family members to help ! Jesus’ parable “The kingdom of heaven is like ……..a vineyard owner, recruiting temporary workers “ ( read Matt 20 : 1-16 ) All the workers were offered a generous reasonable pay for one day’s work; but those hired early in the day, working through the heat of the day, ended up with the same wage as the last hired who worked only one hour ( and if true were
Philip Mounstephen, Sermon 9 Oct 2011
Acts 2: 42-47; Matthew 16: 13-20 A man was driving his car along a mountain road in the south of France, when suddenly a red sports car driven by an attractive young woman, blonde hair flowing in the breeze, shot round the corner ahead of him on the wrong side of the road. Frantically he swerved perilously close to the edge, throwing gravel down into the gorge far below. She missed him by a hair’s breadth. And as she shot past she shouted out ‘Pig!’. He was outraged and couldn’t help but shout back ‘Pig yourself!’. And then he drove