Sermons From Clayton Wesley

The Parable of the Sower. What does it mean that the seed is sown everywhere?

In this week's text Jesus, in a counter-cultural move, invites us to rest

What does it mean to welcome God?

Do you hate your parents? Jesus said you should. Or, maybe he was saying something else...

The reading for this week is Matthew 9:35-10:8 Jesus sending out the twelve disciples 

A short reflection (we’ve returned to public worship in a limited and very short service this week) on the trinity for Trinity Sunday.

It is Pentecost. Happy Birthday! Let's have a bit of a look at some of what it means to be Church 

The last Sunday of Easter 2020 and the last words of Jesus in John's Gospel. What does Jesus want for his disciples? He wants them, and us, to know God. 

In the third quarter of the Gospel of John, Jesus continues to invite his followers into his abundant, grace-filled life and world-view. 

Jesus said, 'I will do whatever you ask in my name.' what are we to do with this strange and unsettling statement?

What does Jesus mean when he says, 'I am the way, and the truth and the life'? What does it mean to live in the way?

Where are used to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, in this week's text he calls himself the gate. We explore that a little.

Hope is hard to abandon. That is the experience of the disciple on the road to Emmaus in this week's text

This week we have the story of Thomas’s encounter with Jesus. Sometimes called doubting Thomas, as if doubt were a bad thing!

It is Easter Day 2020 and once more we are invited to look at one of the strangest gospel stories of all; Jesus resurrection. Today’s sermon, in the midst of our strange lives at the moment, invites us to sit with the strangeness of the story and let it reveal its self to us.

It is Palm Sunday and we have the extraordinary story of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. This brave move offers a direct challenge to the world view of Rome and a glimpse of the world that Jesus believes God is bringing into existence. 

How should we understand the story of Lazarus? And why does Jesus say those who believe will not die?

The story of the man born blind whom Jesus heals with a mud pack (John chapter 9) is a story about how we can see and not see all at the same time. 

In the story of the woman at the well, what did Jesus mean when he said, God is spirit?

What better reading first Sunday of Lent than one of the origin stories from the book of Genesis. And a look at the question, what was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?