The Heartbeat of Christianity

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Colossians 3:1-4 on Easter 2020   Without its hole, a donut is just dough. In the same way, without Easter, Christianity is meaningless. Without Easter, our faith is nothing, our faith means nothing. Without Easter, the preacher’s...

Man of Sorrows

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Isaiah 53:1-6 on Good Friday 2020   Richard Jewell was the security guard at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games who found a suspicious backpack containing three pipe bombs in a crowded park near the Olympic stadium. He rang the police...

The Song of the Redeemed

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Psalm 118 on Sunday 5 April 2020 Psalm 118 is the song of the redeemed. The song of a man who has been through the wringer. He had been in a dark and dangerous place. He was surrounded by enemies. They swarmed around him like bees and...

Lead me to the Rock

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Psalm 61 on Sunday 29 March 2020   When would you need a rock that is higher than yourself? The answer is simple: when the floods of life come upon you. When the flood is up to your ankles, you think you can walk through it. When...

On the Third Day

This sermon is part of a series of messages on the Apostles’ Creed. Click this link to find an index of our previous messages: https://corowapc.org/c A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on 1 Corinthians 15:1-19 on Sunday 22 March 2020. The ancient creeds of the church...

He Descended to the Dead

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Psalm 30 and Hebrews 2:10-18 on Sunday 15 March 2020   I don’t know what country kids grow up afraid of: brown snakes, redbacks, drop bears, or whatever, but growing up in Sydney I was afraid of funnel web spiders. And I was...

Suffered under Pontius Pilate

A sermon by Rev Richard Keith on Matthew 27:11-26 on Sunday 8 March 2020   Do you know what’s wrong with you? Do you know what your problem is? Well, according to Buddhist teaching your problem is that you suffer. We all suffer. We can’t avoid it. When we are...