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Readings: Genesis 28:10-17; Psalm 103:19-22; Hebrews 1:5-14; John 1:47-51 “Rabbi, you are the Son of God!  You are the King of Israel!‘ What is an angel?  Who is an angel?  Today is dedicated to Michael and All Angels.  But what actually is an angel, what is their purpose?  To see that, we need to lookContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday 29th September 2024: Michael and All Angels”

Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash “O taste and see that the Lord is gracious; blessed is the one who trusts in him.” Well, what a week, no a fortnight, it has been across the world.  There has seemed to be an escalation of violence in all quarters of the earth: examples of different groups threatening, attacking, suchContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday 11th August 2024: Trinity 11”

Readings: 2 Samuel 11:1-15; Psalm 14; Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 From the epistle this morning: “Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for everContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday, 28 July 2024 (Trinity 9)”

Readings: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a; Psalm 89:20-37; Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34,53-56 “For he is our peace; he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall.” From the Guardian, November 1989: “They crossed the border with incredible joy, amazement, tears and good humour. They sang and sparkled, above, below and beside theContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday 21st July 2024 (Trinity 8)”

Readings: Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 22:25-31; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 A question from a poem by Malcolm Guite: “What might it mean to bide and to abide In such rich love as makes the poor heart glad?” (1) Words in the English language can create such powerful images and feelings, and many of the mostContinue reading “Sermon Sunday 28th April 2024 5th Sunday of Easter”

Christ is risen!  He is risen indeed. Alleluia! The spirit of the living God, unseen but ever near, is in such friendship better known alive among us here. (a) I love doing jigsaw puzzles, when I have the time and space.  Yes, they can be frustrating when all you seem to have are pieces ofContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday 14th April 2024”

O love, how deep, how broad, how high! It fills the heart with ecstasy, that God, the Son of God, should take our mortal form for mortals’ sake. (a) And so, just two weeks after the end of Epiphany, we begin our walk with Christ to Jerusalem.  It can seem very appropriate that Lent beginsContinue reading “Sermon for Ash Wednesday, 14th February 2024”

Readings: Malachi 3:1-5; Psalm 24; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 “Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name, in works of sov’reign power come shake the earth again, that all may see, and come with rev’rent fear to the living God, whose kingdom shall outlast the years.” Many, many years ago, just as I started myContinue reading “Sermon for Candlemas, Sunday 28th January 2024”

Photo by Daniel Lerman on Unsplash Genesis 14:17-20; Psalm 128; Revelation 19:6-10; John 2:1-11 Here’s an epiphany to have and hold,A truth that you can taste upon the tongue,No distant shrines and canopies of goldOr ladders to be clambered rung by rung,But here and now, amidst your daily living,Where you can taste and touch and feel and see,TheContinue reading “Sermon for Sunday 21st January 2024”

Isaiah 61:10-62:3; Psalm 148; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:15-21 “The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.” So that’s Christmas for another year.  I don’t know about you, but there’s something satisfying about tidying away the tree, the decorations, the candles, and getting thingsContinue reading “Sermon for 31st December 2023”