Rev. Kit Bunker
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Sermon for Sunday 21 June 2009 - Pentecost 3 : 21 June 2009 : Rev. Kit Bunker
The Gospel reading today is an account of an extraordinary happening: a storm which comes to an end because Jesus commands it to. The miracle… for that is what it was… simply could not have been ‘coincidence’, because the wind and the waves stopped, both. At the same time. Nor could it have been some kind of conjouring trick; rabbits out of top hats can be managed by an entertainer, but not the stilling of a storm. We are left with a simple choice: either it happened, or someone is telling lies. Once again, we come to the question of the reliability of the witnesses and the writers of the ancient documents. And as usual some people think the account reliable, others not so.
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Sermon for Sunday 29 March 2009 : 29 March 2009 : Rev. Kit Bunker
The sorts of things being said in that passage from the Epistle to the Hebrews will be recognized by anyone who has ever been at school or uni. As we all know, there is a huge ‘learning curve’ to be overcome whenever we start something new: the new knowledge, painfully acquired, is useless to us on its own, but as we keep adding to it, suddenly we find we have enough knowledge to be useful. Even if we are really bad students, if we persevere long enough, suddenly we have a skill that is something we can use.
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Lent 3 year b : 15 March 2009 : Rev. Kit Bunker
Preaching Christ Crucified is not a sales job. It has nothing at all in common with the salesman who ‘gives’ a free computer away with the car he sells you… and although Life Eternal comes along with the acknowledgement of our sinfulness and request for forgiveness at the moment we believe… we are not responding to a ‘deal’ but to the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
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Draft Rules for Prayer : 24 February 2009 : Rev. Kit Bunker
Pray so much that your mind is like the mind of Jesus, for He lives in you and you in Him…for these are prayers that God answers.
After I delivered my sermon on the 15th of February 2009 of this month, someone asked me why I’d left out of my talk the way that God responds to prayer. I replied that I’d left it out because there is only so much that can fit in 1200 words; true, but I also left out the discussion of God and His response to our prayer because it is difficult… but when you do sort it out in your mind, you get back to where I was in that sermon on the 15th of February 2009.
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Sermon for Sunday 15th February 2009. : 14 February 2009 : Rev. Kit Bunker
Maxwell is a bit of a hero of mine. He said his prayers, you know: he was always a
churchgoer, and in 1853 experienced what he called a ‘conversion.’ He said his prayers, and he derived the fundamental equations of electromagnetism. These are the rules made by God at the moment that He created light, at the same time creating X-rays and radio waves and all the spectrum of waves that arise because of these few rules. Maxwell’s equations appeared in their final, polished, form in 1873.1 readers commented on this article