Thomas Grieve
Guest preacher in the seetal chile
In the Bible, the story of David and Mefi-Bosheth gives a powerful picture of how God deals with us. God reveals his own restorative nature in the way David restores the son of his friend Jonathan. What is a name? The thing we call a rose would smell just as lovely under any other name. This is the famous question that Juliet asks in William Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece. The names Capulet and Montague were for Romeo and Juliet…
What do you do before you move into a new home? What do you do before you move into a new home? What do a whole people do when they move into a new home? Today’s Bible text deals with aspects of this question. We are dealing with a text from the 5th book of Moses. The Israelite people are on the east bank of the Jordan River preparing to enter their new homeland. The prophet Moses, who for over 40 years…
At the very end of the prayer Our Father, it moves into worship. «For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.» This is not only the case in this prayer, but also in many other places in the Bible – and could become a habit of life. Today is 30 December. If you still have open New Year’s resolutions from last January, there are about 30 hours left. If your resolution was to stop putting things on the…
The parable of the prodigal son is an image of the Gospel and at the same time linked to the Our Father. How this link is formed and what this has to do with the theme «When God is silent» will be the subject of this sermon.
A sermon on the solos of the Reformation. Delivered in Bad Schussenried on the occasion of the Gemeindeweekend 2017.
A sermon for the feast of Pentecost.