Mount Calvary Sermons

THIRD OF ADVENT 2015 LUKE 3:7-18Turns out I’ve been doing it all wrong. 22 years I’ve been ordained. Do you know how many Sunday services that is? Rhetorical question - don’t take out your phones and open the calculator app. That’s a gazillion sermons I’ve preached. And this week I am in despair. I feel like the guy who has been pushing his lawnmower around his yard for 20 years and just discovered it has a motor. Because this week I’ve been reading John the Baptist’s method of preaching; and I now understand that I’ve been too nice to you. John begins his sermons with, “You brood of vipers”. So, I’ve been praying about this, and I think we should try it next week. We’ll process in, as normal, then I’ll turn and face you and I’ll say “You brood of vipers”, and you all reply “And also with you”. “You’re a bucket of snakes”. “As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be wor