A Marriage Sermon
06/02/2016 13:46
Last month I had the privilege to preside at my first wedding as an ordained pastor. Here is the sermon.
[Song of Songs 8:6-7; Rom. 12:9-18]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
As the great 20th c. poet Haddaway once said: "What is love, baby...
Holy Week service
03/26/2016 10:06
On Wednesday we commemorated Maundy Thursday and Good Friday (I know, but we have to take practical matters into consideration). These are the prayers we used.
Bell
Welcome, explanation, request to leave in silence
Invocation and Introduction
In the name of the Father, and of the +...
Annunciation, twice
03/14/2016 11:40
In the Nordic tradition the Feast of the Annunciation is observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent (bit odd to some of you with different liturgical calendars, but there is something to it). Below are last and this year's reflections.
Sermon-for the service on the 5th Sunday in...
Lucia 2015
12/14/2015 12:12
We celebrated Lucia -a sort of Swedish/Nordic variation of Readings and Carols, but with more 'special effects'- at Liverpool Cathedral. This is my short reflection for the occasion.
[Is. 9:2-6; Jn. 1:1-14; Lk. 2:1-14]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ....
Some Sermons
11/09/2015 13:18
I was asked to share some sermons of mine.
Reading references for the morning in question are between square brackets; these are according to the Swedish lectionary.
Pax.
14th after TRINITY
[Ezek. 37:15-22; Eph. 4:1-6; Jn. 17:9-11]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord...
An Expression of Faith
08/30/2015 17:58
We express our faith in the Source, Abba Father and Mother Hen; concerned and engaged with all that is; the Author of that which we are all part of, and of that which is beyond us all.We express our faith in the Only Child, Prince and Pauper; before, after and outside time, but also a...
Apocalpypse Now
07/14/2015 14:37
Sorry to have been incommunicado for a while...
I will exlain in detail in person, later..
So... I got better, and fiestier... and I noticed the Christian world has not changed... to my changrin... so here is my personal contribution...
'Christian preacher predicts imminent end of the world'
Or...
Jesus stops... from Gospel to social gospel
02/11/2015 20:06
Sermon-5th Sunday after Epiphany
(@Nordic Church, Liverpool, 8th February 2015
[Is. 52:13-15; I Cor. 13:1-13; Lk. 18:31-43]
Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Since we don't have a service on the third Sunday of the month, this is...
A tale of Christmas, Kings and Candlemas
02/01/2015 18:00
Dear all, hope you are well, and blessings.
I've been in Liverpool for a few weeks now and I am setlling in, getting my feet under the table, getting my way around.
So far I've done one concelebration, one simple said Communion service, and as of today one sung High Mass/Communion... whereby the...
Luther and Prayer - an exam
12/08/2014 10:15
Now that the Church Exam and the Ordination have come and gone, I reckon enough time has passed to put up the final presentation I did before the Vocations Committee (that clinched the deal, so to speak)
A solid book on the theme, though dating from 1973, is by Gunnar Wertelius, Oratio...