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
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Psalm 104:24-35
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Acts 2:37-42
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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!
