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listen clearly, you don't have to try A sermon for when everything ends but nothing changes : I have a confession : I’ve been looking forward to today . For me, today is the culmination of   Easter. And Easter isn’t even over yet! How lucky are we?!? We are, of all people, most blessed . As you know, today is colloquially known as “ low Sunday.” And the reason for that is obvious enough today: gone are the Easter crowds ! In fact, absent are even the most regular of worshippers today . Only the church rats turn up on the Sunday after Easter or Christmas. And for all I know, some of you are only here today because you have to be! Maybe you’re a counter or deacon .   But you know what? I like Sundays like this . I admit it; I’m a bit of a church rat myself . In a way, this makes me less than an ideal pastor. I’m probably a bit too ambiguous about the crowds . I think I get a little too much of a charge from the humble gatherings where the only people who turn up are th...

the waiting is the hardest part The holy scripture according to the book of Acts (1:1-14) Way back in 1981 Tom Petty crooned, “The waiting is the hardest part.”   And he’s right , isn’t he? Waiting is the hardest part. Which is odd if you think about it.   After all, waiting shouldn’t be all that hard. I mean, you don’t have to do anything. In fact, that’s the only precondition of waiting, that you don’t DO anything! Yet , for some reason, that’s the hardest part; waiting, not doing anything. Tom Petty said he thought this song held up so well because it’s so adaptable to so many situations. And he’s right, isn’t he? It doesn’t matter what it is, waiting is the hardest part. … That’s what the disciples are facing down in today’s scripture, too. After his suffering , Jesus presented himself alive to them. And now that he’s done what no one else ever has, the disciples are ready to do anything, too!   In fact, they’re even ready...