Category: Exhortations

Exhortations

I need you all

There is a suite, by the composer Aaron Copland, called Appalachian Spring. It was written in the mid 20th Century, and first performed in 1945. It’s a particular favourite of mine at the moment. Appalachian Spring is one of those pieces that nobody has heard of, but everybody recognises. One of the themes is used […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 
Exhortations

The most frightening words in the Bible

Consider the following words: Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners, uncleanness, lasciviousness, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, whoremongers. How many of you can honestly say that you understand every one of those terms? What is ‘uncleanness’ for a follower of […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 
Exhortations

Two parables

This morning I want to consider two parables: the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the parable of the Sheep and the Goats. Normally it can be a dangerous thing to draw too much from parables. They are stories that illustrate a point, rather than being literal events. An incautious reading of the parable of […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell