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English-speaking church in Eindhoven
English-speaking church in Eindhoven
Sermons by Francis Noordanus
After 18 years of faithful service to Trinity Church Eindhoven, Francis and Barbara gave their last sermon before retirement today. Barbara delivered a beautiful prayer based on the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, while Francis brought a potent message regarding Jesus’ teaching on The Sheep and the Goats from Matthew 25.
In a first ever hybrid baptism service with 30 people present and several times that number on line, Francis considered how baptism is about engaging new spiritual roots. While the West is in a secular age actively neglecting the need for spiritual roots it holds values and practice virtues as like cut flowers without the…
Matters are coming to a head. Moses dies in sight of the promised land and Jesus is more than standing up to every challenging question that is brought to him in Jerusalem. What might we hear in these stories for a church about to reach its own Jordan marking the end of a season and…
Moses set out God’s Law known as the 10 Commandments along time ago. Why should anyone obey them then or now? Read or listen for the answer.
Exodus is a powerful demonstration of what can happen when people are led by God with an human leader. Francis pulls out one lesson for churches facing change from Exodus 14.
We are a church of diversity. What happens when Jesus speaks clearly about something that we might have very strong feelings about? Perhaps even different perspectives? Read on or play the audio.
Two powerful stories of God’s call upon mere mortals is viewed through Paul’s advice to Timothy. This was our first Hybrid service with the sermon preached to a live and online congregation. We consider God’s call on Moses and Peter and how they experienced that.
Jesus cuts like a hot knife through soft butter to distinguish the traditions of people from the Words of God. This exposes the garden of the heart and what lives there to either bless or defile through the mouth. Francis opens up an encounter between Jesus, the Pharisees and his disciples which lays bare the…
This is the 5th assume nothing type homily on Holy Communion offered during Lockdown. It only comes in audio format. On the day the recording did not work so the recording was taken later during a re-run.