Kevin Makins - Setting the Table: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Matthew 17
The eighteenth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.
Jesus calls us down from the glory, onto the streets.
Helpful for wrestling through this teaching is The Hamilton Spectator’s study “Code Red” which explores poverty in our city.
Wendy Gritter - Setting the Table: The Subversive Ethic of Jesus
Matthew 5, 7, 22; Luke 6 & 7
The sixteenth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.
Wendy Gritter of New Directions Minsitries shares with us the subversive, dangerous, beautiful and compelling ethic of Jesus!
How did Jesus treat people on the margins of his society? How does this affect the way we treat people the church has often alienated or hurt? Are we really called to live like Jesus (and risk being crucified)?
Wendy speaks particularly of her own experience working with those who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexuality, challenging us to understand and recapture the ethic of Jesus. An incredibly important, and timely, message.
Kevin Makins - Setting the Table: Fresh Manna Tomorrow
Matthew 4, Deuteronomy 6 & 8
The fifthteenth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.
Jesus comes out of Egypt, goes through the waters of Baptism, and enters the desert to fast for 40 days. It is at this point, when Jesus is most weak, that the tempter appears.
What we have in Matthew 4 is a cosmic battle between good and evil, faith and doubt, greed and trust; a battle that will determine the fate of Jesus’ ministry, and of the world itself.
Kevin Makins - Setting the Table: Two Types of Waiting
Malachi 3, Luke 2
The fourteenth sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.
After his birth Jesus is taken by Joseph and Mary to the temple to be presented before God. While there the family runs into two people who have been waiting for him a very long time.