Andrew's Sermons

Heavenly Father, I pray that through the Holy Spirit and the love of Jesus Christ our Lord, these words may be to your Glory. Amen. The year after we got married, Louise and I decided to go on foreign holiday. It was a very long journey and it was through a wilderness, we stopped at B&B’s on the way, we crossed the border into Scotland, our journey taking us to Inverness, and we thought, it can’t be far now. Three hours later, direct north, after the crossing the Sutherland wilderness, we arrived in our remote holiday cottage, on the north coast of Scotland, halfway between Cape Wrath in the west and John O’Groats in the east. Now that seemed like a big journey, partly because we realised that once we had arrived, we would have to get home again, it was a beautiful place, a true wilderness and required planning and a good road atlas, there were no sat-navs or google maps in those days, oh no. I’m not comparing our journey to the Israelites spending forty years in the wilder...