by Stuart Strachan Jr. | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this short excerpt written by the prolific Christian Ethicist Stanley Hauerwas to his Godson, he describes one quality of both God the creator and us the image bearers: Kindness. An extraordinary Christian named Julian lived in Norwich during a time we now called...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Some while ago, I picked up a book in a second hand bookshop. It was an old, slightly faded paperback with what looked like an intriguing title: The God I Want. Published in the late 1960s, it was a collection of essays by various public figures explaining the kind of...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Francis of Assisi was riding a horse down the road that went by a leper hospital situated far from Assisi, for then, as in biblical times, lepers were a rejected lot. Francis was not yet the saint of history; he was still caught between the lure of wealth and glory...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most of us in the United States know the famous “I have a Dream” speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the 1963 March on Washington. On a sweltering, humid day in the nation’s capital, some 250,000 people came to hear King speak on the...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Aug 13, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations, Uncategorized
What a great illustration of Psalm 23 and Jesus’ own self-designation as the “good shepherd”. Jesus draws His flock to Himself as the great shepherd over the human race: During the riots in Palestine in the middle thirties a village near Haifa was...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Aug 6, 2019 | Sermon Illustrations, Uncategorized
You will always find what you are looking for. Think about the difference between two birds: a vulture and a hummingbird. Vultures soar high in the sky, looking and searching. What does a vulture find? Dead things. The ugly oversized bird doesn’t stop until he finds...
