The Light of the World
This sermon was first given at our Sunday morning service on 9th February 2020. The Gospel reading for that morning was Matthew 5:13-20 . More years ago than I care to remember I was in a school production of Godspell . I played Father Abraham as a tiny four-foot-nothing 12-year-old with a Charlton Heston-style American accent. In my head, my voice was deep, mid-west and drawling, but – as my voice really hadn’t broken by then, I probably actually squeaked most of my way through my speech and my song! It’s very funny how I can still remember all the lyrics and my lines – words I learnt over 25 years’ ago – but if you were to ask me to remember any of the things I was supposed to be learning and storing in my long-term memory at school, I would draw a complete blank! But the words to a musical I was in in 1991? Yup, I’ve still got them down-pat. Word-for-word. Don’t worry though – I won’t subject you to a solo of ‘ Learn your Lessons Well ’ just now… The reaso