The Resurrection of Lazarus
Lent 5 2026 In the Creed we say that “for us men, and for our salvation, [Jesus] came down from…
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Simeon the Sentry
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always acceptable in your sight, O God…
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The Suffering Servant
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be always acceptable in your sight, O God…
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The Epiphany
Epiphany 2026 Once upon a time, there was a young woman. She was the daughter of a chieftain of ancient…
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Massacre of the Holy Innocents
First Sunday of Christmas 2025 Of all the carols we sing at Christmas, perhaps the most beautiful is also the…
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The King’s Arrival
Friends, in today’s Gospel for the last Sunday of Advent, an angel tells Joseph in a dream to name his…
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Advent: Our longing and yearning for Christ
Advent 2 2025 Matthew 3 1-12 All four Gospels use the same words from the prophecy of Isaiah in reference…
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Christ is Our King
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Doomsday?
Second Sunday Before Advent 2025Luke 21. 5-19 Not a single stone will be left on another: everything will be destroyed.…
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Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday 2025 2009 marked the deaths of two of the last surviving veterans of the First World War. Their…
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All Saints – Is God Calling You?
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is the festival of all…
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Fight the good fight, finish the race, keep the faith
Last Sunday after Trinity 2025: 2 Timothy 4. 6-8; 16-18 Our second lesson this Sunday is from St Paul’s Second…
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Prayer: A relationship built upon love and trust
Trinity 18 2025 – Luke 18. 1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and…
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Paul
May I speak in the name of God. Amen. Picture the scene. The year is around AD 62 or 63,…
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The Four Last Things
Our Gospel reading today points us towards the four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell. In the sitcom Modern…
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Pazzo d’amore – Crazy in Love
Trinity 13 2025 – Luke 15. 1-10 A few years ago a couple got married here in this church. It…
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I Surrender All
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Being in church can be dangerous…
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Reshaping our imagination
May I speak in the name of God. Amen. I don’t know if you remember being the new person at…
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Jeremiah, A prophetic voice for our time?
Trinity 10 2025Jeremiah 1. 4-10 Our first reading was from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah. More than any of…
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Fire and Judgement
I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! This line tells…
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Sat Nav
May I speak in the name of God. Amen. Faith is on one level very simple, and on another level,…
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Bubble of bubbles, all is bubbles
Trinity 7 2025 Our readings today tell us a truth about the world that it’s hard to take in. But…
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Prayer – The Importunate Widow
May I speak in the name of God. Amen. God answers prayer. That should be an uncontroversial statement. That’s because…
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Searching – Being Found – Bearing Witness
St Mary Magdalene 2025 After the Ascension, the story is that our patron saint Mary Magdalene, together with her sister…
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The Good Samaritan
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. The parable of the Good Samaritan…
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Like Sheep Among Wolves
Trinity 3 2025 Luke 10. 1-11, 16-20 Jesus sends 72 of his disciples out like sheep among wolves to proclaim…
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We want to see Jesus!
Trinity 2 2025 Luke 9. 51-end Some Greeks were in Jerusalem for the Passover. They met a disciple of Jesus…
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Trinity Sunday
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, this is all rather daunting,…
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Pentecost
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. I remember a clergyman saying he…
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That we may be one
Easter 7 2025John 17. 20-26 An old lady once said of a preacher, “That gentleman just opens heaven to me,…
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As I have loved you…
Easter 5 2025John 13. 31-35 Today we hear again the new Commandment of love. Our Gospel is taken from the…
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Follow Me
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Some of you may be lucky…
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Growing Good – Mary Magdalene
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today I’m going to focus on…
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Suspended by the grace of God
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. I sometimes wonder what it must…
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This prophecy is a thunderclap
Second Sunday of Lent 2025Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Luke 13.35 In late July AD 70, Titus,…
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Because I want to…
Lent May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. See if you know this…
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Is it going to be all right?
Sunday next before Lent 2025Luke 9. 26-36 Is he going to be all right? Is it going to be all…
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Sleeping Christ
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. In 2022 it was reported that…
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Trust in the LORD
Third Sunday before Lent 2025Jeremiah 17. 5-10 The prophet Jeremiah tells us that when we trust in the Lord, we…
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Resurrection Appearances
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll…
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Obedience and the Wedding at Cana
Epiphany 2 2025 John 2. 1-11 If you’re ever in the Louvre Art Gallery in Paris and you join the…
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Are you prepared?
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Are you prepared today, prepared for…
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Christmas is God with us
Epiphany 2024 They departed to their own country by another way. (Mt 2:12) These are the last words of the…
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Christmas Day 2024
Christmas Day 2024 There’s a wonderful poem that Chris Royal reads at the Latymer School concert every year. It’s by…
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The Visitation
December 22nd, The Fourth Sunday of Advent – The Visitation May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son…
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The First Sunday of Advent
Advent Sunday 2024 A sermon is a strange thing. A sermon seems a bit like a dream. Some dreams you…
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Christus Rex
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is the feast of Christ…
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A Great Crisis
Trinity 25 – Mark 13 1-8 As we approach the end of the year the Scriptures speak to us of…
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A Remembrance Sunday Reflection
Remembrance Day May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Remembrance Day is a…
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All Saints’ Sunday: Christ in Me
All Saints, 2024 Once upon a time at the very beginning of the 20th century, there were two young Parisian…
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All Souls Vlog
All Souls 2024 I’ve been ordained for 25 years now. That means that I’ve done a lot of funerals. I’ve…
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Making a gift of ourselves to others
Trinity 21 2024: Mark 10. 35-45 As Jesus was making His way to Jerusalem, and to His Passion and death,…
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A New and Better Way
Trinity 19 2024: A new and better way.Job 1.1, 2.1-10 In the fifth chapter of his epistle St James writes…
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Michaelmas 2024
May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Happy Michaelmas, Happy St-Michael-and-All-Angels-Day! The writer…
