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Triune Mystery

This can be heard here Gate Pa Trinity Sunday 2015 Readings: Psalm:                                     Psalm 29         First Reading:                         Isaiah 6:1-8 Second Reading :                    Rom 8:12-17                            Gospel:                                  ...

Trinity Sunday!

Trinity Sunday! Every preacher’s nightmare. How do I make sense of the Doctrine of the Trinity? Understanding God as three in one is a central platform of Christianity. And it is really difficult to grasp. And we get it wrong a lot. it is so hard to keep the balance between Threeness and unity. I suspect a significant number of us really believe in 3 Gods. The way some Christians talk about the three persons of the Trinity has no sense of unity about it at all. For them the separateness of the three persons reigns supreme. And others in reality believe in one God and loose the Threeness. To say that God is one expressed in three modes (like water, ice and steam) is not Trinitarian either. God is one and God is three “persons”. The three persons of the Trinity each have their own work or mission. Only The Son was incarnate, lived among us and died on the Cross. Only God the Father is the source of all being. Only the Spirit enlivens and empowers us today to join in the ongoin...

Wind Blown

Listen to this sermon here. Gate Pa – Pentecost Sunday 2015 Readings: Psalm                         Psalm 104:24-34, 35   First Reading:                         Acts 2:1-21                              Second Reading:                    Rom 8:22-27                           Gospel:                 ...