Author: CMM, Cape Town
Resurrected with wounds of Good Friday
2024 04 07 Sunday Sermon
Sikawu Makubalo: Resurrected with wounds of Good Friday
[Acts 4:32-35; John 20:19-31]
Easter Faith arises from a Response to an Encounter
Resurrection Sunday: 31 March 2024
Sikawu Makubalo
Easter Faith arises from a Response to an Encounter
[1 Corinthians 15:1-11; John 20:1-18]
Shall I Crucify the King?
Good Friday Sermon
2024 03 29 Sikawu Makubalo
Shall I Crucify the King?
[Isaiah 52:13-53:12; John 19:1-37]
Prayer for Peace, Hope and Justice by Terence Parker.
A Prayerful Parade
2024 03 24 Palm Sunday
Sikawu Makubalo: A Prayerful Parade
[Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Mark 11:1-11]
Holy Week: Resurrection Reawakening
The bell, banners & blasphemy – book launch
NB: Please note the new starting time.
Books are also available at CMM’s office and in the sanctuary.
We want to see Jesus
2024 03 17 Sunday Sermon
Sikawu Makubalo: We want to see Jesus
[Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 12:20-33]
Prayer for Peace, Hope and Justice by Rose-Anne Reynolds.
The bell, banners & blasphemy – Available Now!
Alan Storey‘s book – The bell, banners & blasphemy –
is now available from CMM.
The Cape Town Book Launch is on 11 April 2024 at 18.30 at the Book Lounge
(corner Buitenkant & 71 Roeland Streets, Cape Town City Centre)
Durban and Johannesburg launches will follow shortly.
Cost: R300.00 per copy. Delivery charges are additional.
Orders: aslowwalkbooks@gmail.com
Proceeds to Stepping Stones Children’s Centre in Cape Town.
Reawakening Resurrection
Molweni zihlobo, sisters and brothers in Christ,
The time has come once again for us to be reawakened by the resurrection power of our God. Resurrection is at the core of our Gospel life, the very basis of our faith.
During Easter we are reawakened to what Brian D McClaren calls an uprising. In his book “We make the road by walking” this is what he says concerning the resurrection: “Resurrection has begun. We are part of something rare, something precious, something utterly revolutionary. It feels like an uprising. An uprising of hope, not hate. An uprising armed with love, not weapons. An uprising that shouts a joyful promise of life and peace, not angry threats of hostility and death. It’s an uprising of outstretched hands, not clenched fists.”
You are invited to join this uprising if you have never been part of it. Those who have been, let this year’s Easter be a reawakening. It requires a courageous faith to be part of such a life-giving uprising.
To this end, I echo Will Willimon’s reflection of the experience of Easter: At Easter we are met by a living, free Lord, the risen Christ. To be met by the living God is a bit frightening, because it means that our God will not be locked in the past, will not be imprisoned in history or within our limited notions of what God can or cannot do. Jesus is raised!
This Holy Week offers us the opportunity to celebrate Easter together as a Circuit. Services during the week will be held in the Circuit’s different congregations and will give us the chance to worship together as a community.
Please join the “uprising” as we are reawakened to the gift and grace of Jesus’ resurrection.
Jesus is raised! Indeed the Lord is raised! Jesus lives! Indeed the Lord lives! So, by serving, worshipping, and following we become life-giving prophetic agents.
Grace and Peace
Sikawu