Casting, Tuning, Ringing
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: 1 Corinthians 13; John 13:31-35 I love the sound of the bells from St Salvator’s Tower. I hear them – as we all do in St Andrews – on Sunday mornings, or…
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“Look, your king is coming to you.”
Preacher: Revd Giles Dove, Assistant University ChaplainReadings: Zechariah 9:9-12; Matthew 21:1-11 May I speak in the name of the Living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. “Look, your king is coming to you.”…
Location, location, location
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12 The Christian faith is deeply bound up with place. Jesus is Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem, grew up in Galilee, was…
How we worship
Preacher: Revd Bethan Rodden, Assistant Curate, St Mark’s Newnham and St Andrews and St Mary’s GrantchesterReadings: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Luke 4:14-21 Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts…
Word made flesh made word
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Isaiah 60:1-3, 19-20; 1 John 1:1-5 There’s such a joy in the words John begins his first letter with: We declare to you what was from the beginning, what…
What’s the story (Morning Glory)
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Exodus 1:22-2:10; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-18; Matthew 2:1-12 We are a story-telling species. We told them round the fire; we tell them to children; we read…
The first wounded
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Jeremiah 8:18-22; Luke 10:30-37 Last month I went to a beautiful exhibition of paintings by John Lavery at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. Lavery…
The Undoing
Preacher: Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, University ChaplainReadings: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Mark 10:17-31 A couple of weeks ago, I read an essay as part of my Masters Course in Creative Writing. It’s called Undoings. In it,…
“Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how’d you get that, eh?”
Preacher: Revd Giles Dove, Assistant ChaplainReadings: Revelation 1:: 4b-8; St John 18:33-37 “Jesus answered (Pilate) ‘You say that I am a king.’” Israel was a captive nation under the rule of the Roman Empire. As…
A sense of direction: the road to less harm
Preacher: Revd David Coleman, Chaplain, Eco-Congregation ScotlandReadings: Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 3:1-6 There’s always some agenda….. for why we hear readings together: the acerbic forthrightness of John the Baptist…