Trinity High Wycombe and Cores End United Reformed Churches - Sermons 1 year ago. #AllAreWelcome

Trinity High Wycombe and Cores End United Reformed Churches - Sermons 1 year ago. #AllAreWelcome

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  • Sunday, 3rd April 2022 - Part 1 - Forget the past – do a new thing!
    • Introduction: ‘Forget the past – do a new thing!’ 
    • What new thing will you do, for the planet, other people and God? 
    • "Do a new thing today". 
    • Are we doing a new things this week, this Lent, this year? 
    • A new teenager 
    • New things in the garden 
    • A new pergola in the Cores Eng link up garden 
    • A new award for Trinity - bronze award for Eco Church Praying for a new beginning and new hope in Ukraine 
    • Hearts to write prayers for Ukraine  
    • Reading: Isaiah 43:16-21 NIVUK "Do not cling to events of the past, ...watch for the new thing I am going to do"
      • 12 min
    • Sunday, 27th March 2022 - Part 1 - Lost badgers and the lost sheep, the youger brother in the prodigal son story
      • Talk for all ages - the lost sheep
      • Reading Luke 15 3-7 : I tell you that in the same way there  will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over  ninety-nine righteous people who do not need to repent
      • Reading: Luke 15 11-32 
      • Introduction to the Prodigal Son Part 1: the younger brother Tim Keller video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYcvBTKVVM
        • 22 min
      • Sunday, 20th March 2022 - Part 2 - Being part of the family, blood thicker than water, "hear my words and put them into practice"
        • Reading: Luke 8. 19 – 21   
        • Talk: being part of the family of Jesus - keep  practicing 
        • Does the reading sound harsh for Jesus' family? 
        • In a sense he was turning his back on them, challenging the concept of  family as a small, exclusive group, moving to a wider family with God 
        • We draw back from that - blood is thicker than water. 
        • For some, family is an immensely enriching experience, for others it's  the opposite 
        • Jesus says all of this has to be put in a new perspective - you are part  of my family.  
        • Hear my words and put them into practice 
        • Jesus looks at each one of us and says those who have heard God's word,  put them into practice 
        • Mothering Sunday next week 
        • Honoring those women who take care of us 
        • Linking to the whole church family across the world - Hong Kong, Yemen,  America, South Africa  
        • Activity: making cards to give to members of this church family. Write their name here and pray for them this week
          • 17 min
        • Sunday, 20th March 2022 - Part 1 - "Who do you say I am", how would you picture Jesus
          • Introduction: ‘who do you say I am?’ 
          • Welcome as we continue our Lenten journey 
          • We are beginning to relax some of our restrictions 
          • Those at home won't see that we have tables out to help share our  worship today 
          • Our theme through Lent is to focus on Jesus and to answer the question  he asked his followers - "who do you say I am" 
          • How would you picture Jesus? 
          • At the last supper Leonardo Da Vinci (1498), Christ Carrying the Cross  byt El Greco (1580), Christ of St John of the Cross Salvador Dali  (1951), Light of the World William Holman Hunt (1851), The Last Supper  by Stanley Spencer Cookham (1920), The Found Life of Jesus Mafa (1970s),  Christ on the Tube  
          • Reading Luke Luke 9.18 – 22
          • Talk and activity: Jesus today 3 names or descriptions of Jesus (1st Important in the Christian faith; 2nd Personal – your favourite description and 3rd a more unusual name or description).
            • 13 min
          • Sunday, 13th March 2022 - Part 2 - Helping people, NIMBY, Jeremiah facing rejection, our Lord is for ever loving and gracious
            • Reading: Jeremiah 2 vv 30 – 37  
            • Sermon followed by time of quiet reflection:  Supporting the national centre for Epilepsy in Chalfont Common 
            • Hearing negative talk about the development of the centre "we don't need  any more of that sort" 
            • Most people are supportive and want to applaud those who help but this  changes once they find out the halfway house will help criminals or the  mentally ill 
            • What was once a good idea is rejected because it is happening next door 
            • What causes this - is it fear, for them or their children, is it  financial? 
            • Jeremiah faces the rejection and wrath of the people but still speaks  what God has told him to say 
            • Our Lord is for ever loving and gracious
              • 18 min
            • Sunday, 13th March 2022 - Part 1 - Special offers, Jesus' special offer to us, why say "no thanks" and miss out on the wonderful life God can give?
              • Reading  Luke 13 vv 31 – 35
              • All age Introduction  We seems to be bombarded with special offers wherever we go 
              • If we like it, we'll go for it. 
              • Sometimes it's too good to be true 
              • We have the choice to take advantage or not 
              • Jesus' special offer to us is very good value - letting us live life to the full not just now but forever and how much does it cost us -  nothing.  
              • Jesus has already paid the full price 
              • In our reading we see Jesus sad - longing to give his people the love they need to make their lives a whole lot richer 
              • Does it seem too good to be true?  
              • Are we not worthy of the offer.  
              • Why  do many humans say "no thanks" and miss out on the wonderful life God  can give?
                • 6 min
              • Sunday, 6th March 2022 - Part 2 - "Jesus – Son of God, Son of Man", Ukraine, the struggle between good and evil
                • Reading: Luke 4.1-13 NIVUK read by Lesley Bogart  
                • Short Address: ‘Jesus – Son of God, Son of Man’ 
                • It's a vivid picture and story of Jesus and the Devil. Wrestling with evil in the wilderness 
                • The struggle between the two has echoed down through history 
                • The struggle between good and evil, love and hate, life and death 
                • We see it played out in the messy world of politics and most recently in the situation in Ukraine 
                • We pray that efforts to arrange a ceasefire bear fruit 
                • Of course it's not just played out "out there", it's played out within ourselves 
                • Too often we try to help ourselves at the expense of others 
                • Even the church in Russia has played its part in a mythology that Ukraine is part of Mother Russia 
                • We pray that Patriarch Kirill will speak out against the violence. 
                • We are caught up in this, it's not just about others. 
                • We pray that further escalation in Ukraine can be avoided  
                • Worship Song from Ukraine  “I will Sing,” by Maria Kuchurian & Diana Yakovyn
                  • 23 min
                • Sunday, 6th March 2022 - Part 1 - Into Lent, "From dust you came, to dust you will return", Zelenskyy, H.G.Wells, The Son of God and The Son of Man
                  • Introduction: ‘Into Lent’ 
                  • Ashing services at the start of Lent 
                  • "From dust you came, to dust you will return.  Turn from your sins and  turn to Christ" 
                  • Think about names that are important in life today?  
                  • Zelenskyy, Hope,  Gary, Brian, Tracey, David, Greta, Pat, Tintin 
                  • Our names are important to us 
                  • The most important name and the answer to all questions in all age talks  - Jesus 
                  • Asking "who is Jesus to us and what does it mean to follow Jesus today?" 
                  • H.G.Wells -  "I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess  as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is  irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most  dominant figure in all history." 
                  • The Son of God and the Son of Man 
                  • Jesus wanted to be close to humanity  
                  • Reading: Romans 10.8b – 13 (Good News)
                    • 10 min
                  • Sunday, 27th February 2022 - Part 2 - Towers falling, sermon on the mount and plain, do you want to be a citizen of God's kingdom, May we live full lives in this topsy turvy world
                    • Sermon: Jam tomorrow? 
                    • An amusing story about the last hymn (All my hope on God is founded) 
                    • This service was first used at Chesham a couple of weeks ago. 
                    • Chesham have some masonry fallen off one of the towers. As the hymn was sung, most of the Elders were struggling not to giggle  as the words "with what care and toil is build-ed, tower and temple fall  to dust" rang out 
                    • Do you remember more than a decade ago when David Cameron asked the  Office for National Statistics to come up with a happiness index? 
                    • The sermon on the mount and sermon on the plain having the same roots,  extending into the Old Testament 
                    • Listeners to Christ would have known the links and known that Jesus was  referring back to Chronicles, Psalms, and Isaiah. 
                    • Luke presents us with a choice - do you want to be a citizen of God's  kingdom or a citizen of the Roman Empire (or whatever empire is around  today)? 
                    • Do you want to be generous or greedy, merciful or vengeful, peaceful or  militant, part of the solution or part of the problem 
                    • May we live full lives in this topsy turvy world
                      • 16 min

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