Basket
0 Items
Changing our Attitudes and Changing our World Preaching from Year A, November 2025 to January 2026
Describing his songwriting process, Nick Cave, the musician, writer and actor, explains that dishonest lines tend to deteriorate through repetition, whereas truth-filled lines continue to gather meaning over time. I have always found that a helpful principle when preparing talks. Reading through these sermons, there was a truth-filled line threaded through them that gathered meaning. It was the truth of what Aggy Palairet describes as the ‘unity of all cultures under Christ the King’. It is the radical eternal reality achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit who, as Ayo Audu notes, ‘never abides by our social norms’. At the same time, these sermons exposed the dishonesty of what Guy Hewitt describes as ‘collective amnesia’ when it comes to racial justice.
With the theme of racial justice laced through the Advent and Christmas seasons, we are confronted with the depth of God’s judgement on self-satisfied attitudes that presume to know where his favour rests based on our perceptions of reality. Janet Wootton offers a poetic reminder that ‘when eternal judgment enters our lives we are suddenly caught up in the dance of time and eternity’. In the incarnation, hope eternal and eternal judgment enter our world in the person of Jesus Christ. It is God’s righteous judgment in Jesus that determines every side of history. As 2026 dawns we all have a part to play to reimagine how life in its pluriformity is unified under Jesus’ Lordship. As Rob Esdaile writes: ‘it’s our turn to discern how Epiphany – the unveiling of the presence of the infant King – should change our attitudes and change our world’.
Welcome to The College of Preachers
To explore the website fully, please sign in or subscribe.
Non-subscribers can read up to three articles a month for free. (You will need to register.)
This is the last of your 1 free articles this month.
Subscribe today for the full range of resources from The College of Preachers, including Lectionary sermons for every Sunday, book reviews and more.
