Sermon: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
January 7th, 2007 · Posted in SERMONS · 0 CommentsI have posted my sermon for today on my sermon blog. It’s based on Luke 3:15-17 and Luke 3:21-22 . It’ entitled Chosen For Ministry.
Here’s a portion of it:
The Presbyterian minister and poet Ann Weems writes – in her poem “New Shootsâ€:
Born in the light of the bright morning star,
we are new.
Not patched, not mended … but new
like a newborn …
like the morning …
The guilt-blotched yesterdays are gone;
the soul stains are no more!
There is no looking back;
there are no regrets.
In our newness, we are free.
In the power of God’s continuing creation,
we are:
new shoots from the root of Jesse,
new branches from the one true Vine,
new songs breaking through the world’s deafness.
This then is a new day.
New shoots, new branches,
new songs, new day …
Bathed in the promise of God’s New Creation,
we begin.
Ann Weems. “New Shoots–>Searching for Shalom, p. 56
You can read the sermon here.
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