George Hermanson

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Year C
Season of Pentecost
Sunday Between August 28 and September 3 Inclusive
August 29, 2010, Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Read the Bible passage: Jeremiah 2:4-13, The Message;   or   Jeremiah 2:4-13, The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Read the Bible passage: Luke 14:1, 7-14, The Message;   or   Luke 14:1, 7-14, The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Faith-provoking, historical insights into the lesson by David Ewart, Luke 14:1, 7-14.

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The Rev. Dr. George Hermanson

One of rock songs chez plays continuously is “Rules, Rules, Everywhere Rules.” I checked Goggle to get the words for rules and found Goggle has over 3 million sites referring to rules, everywhere rules. So life has more than its share of rules We just can't seem to get away from them.  Some of the rules protect and some are used to repress.

Paradise and Sacraments

George is away on vacation during August. In his absence, Suzanne Sykes has sent a series of 4 sermons prepared on the theme of Paradise. The fourth one is below.

August 3, 2008
Kanata United Church
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

Matthew 3:13-17
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Psalm 104:24-35
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Acts 2:37-42
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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The Rev. Suzanne Sykes

Over the past three weeks we have been thinking about paradise. We have thought
of our beautiful earth, God’s good creation, as our original paradise home. We have considered how early Christians decorated their sanctuaries with images of paradise - the garden of Eden, scenes from Bible stories, saints of their own community and men and women from scripture. They made and thought of their church as a paradise on earth. Over the past few weeks the children and some of us adults created our own little bit of paradise and hung it on the wall!

George is away on vacation during August. In his absence, Suzanne Sykes has sent a series of 4 sermons prepared on the theme of Paradise. The fourth one is below.

August 3, 2008
Kanata United Church
Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

Matthew 3:13-17
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Psalm 104:24-35
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Acts 2:37-42
Read the passage: The Message   or   The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Click here for an easy to print or email Adobe PDF version of this post.

The Rev. Suzanne Sykes

Over the past three weeks we have been thinking about paradise. We have thought
of our beautiful earth, God’s good creation, as our original paradise home. We have considered how early Christians decorated their sanctuaries with images of paradise - the garden of Eden, scenes from Bible stories, saints of their own community and men and women from scripture. They made and thought of their church as a paradise on earth. Over the past few weeks the children and some of us adults created our own little bit of paradise and hung it on the wall!