Kindle a flame / Introduction / The Good Shepherd / Short Reflection for Peace Sunday / Responding to God’s Call / Making Sense of the Cross / Yes, I Believe / The World’s Values and the Values of the Kingdom of God / Reclaiming Christmas / Touching the Sacred / Experiencing and Interpreting the Scripture / Breaking through to Love / The Lord’s Prayer / Telling the Good News / Whatever’s Written in Your Heart / The Water of Life / Living with Real Hope / Responding to the Wilderness / How should we spread the Good News? / Keeping Jesus Alive in Our Hearts / Love in Action / Controlled by Love / A New Hope / Journey in faith / Lent, Season of Love / Celebration – Struggle – Transformation / What must I do? / One in Christ / Exploring the Nativity Stories in Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels / The Moment of Jesus’ Baptism / Celebration – Crisis – Cross – Change / Head, Heart and Hands / Jesus and the Dream of God / Layers of Meaning / Jesus, the human face of God / The Gift of Sight / The Tipping Point / Embracing New Ideas / Let Justice Roll Down Like a River / Expansion, Contraction / God Is With Us / Jesus changes his mind / Finding a Direction for Our Journey / One Cubed (13) – The Power of Three / Cultivate an Attitude of Hope / Who is my enemy? / Like a child / Wind of the Spirit / Good things come in threes / God’s Enduring Love / Take the long view, do what we can, it is enough / The Rule of Three / Worship Should Be Beautiful / The Solar Jesus / Thinking Through the Trinity / Come the hour, come the leader / Finding the Tipping Point / Growing in Faith / We Are Weaving… / What was Jesus’ plan? / Getting Out of Our Comfort Zones / Rejoice and Praise – Be confident – Be Prepared / Have mercy on us… / God is With Us / / Bibliography / Scripture Index / People and Themes Index /
Philip has been a Lay Preacher since 2007 and, along with his wife
Heather, has been a member of Wesley Methodist Church in downtown
Wellington, New Zealand for the last 40 years.
His ministry also includes a mail order book supply service for
ministers, worship leaders and church members; publishing books of
worship resources and on other topics of interest to church people;
and distributing the NZ Hymnbook Trust’s music books and
recordings.
He and his wife Heather share a passion for music, are members of
Festival Singers of Wellington and lead the English language
congregation’s Singing Group at their church. They live in
Wellington, New Zealand and have three creative adult children.
“Every Methodist preacher in Aotearoa-New Zealand should have this sermon collection by Philip Garside... Philip joins a short list of the old-style Methodists who found within themselves, the flame, the fire, to preach and publish and be damned - and some of them were! ...all power to PGPL and to Philip for this book which gets the evangel into the marketplace. I like it.” Rev Dr David Bell, former principal of Trinity Theological College, Auckland; “I am impressed. I see this as an excellent collection of role-model sermons. Each is well researched, well-structured and thoughtfully spiritual. You display an innovative range of creative presentations. Every reflection delivers a meaningful and meaty message for our times. Thank you for sharing it with me.” Rosalie Sugrue, Author and Lay Preacher
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