Sermons From Clayton Wesley

What can we do with Jesus shocking call to ‘take up your cross’? Not much I think…

Jesus is in Caesarea Philippi and that matters when he tells the disciples that he is going to build the church 

The Canaanite woman is a story that turns her world, Jesus’s world and ours upside down

Jesus walks on the sea; Peter walks on water. What’s the difference? And what was Peter doing?

What can we take from Jesus feeding the 5000? In what ways are we fed in this story?

Jesus’s short parables of the kingdom, what do they have in common?

What to do about evil? The parable of the weeds and the wheat 

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