Sermon 4th February 2024 – Candlemas Luke 2:22-40 I’d like to begin with a confession. I am really inpatient. Mainly with myself. When I was about 5 we were given the opportunity at school of taking up a musical instrument, and much to the delight of my parents, I chose the violin. I persevered for about 6 …
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Sermon 2023-12-31
Sermon 31st December 2023 Texts: 1 Samuel 3: 1-10, John 1: 43-end What is the one thing that we are given after our birth that costs nothing and yet is absolutely essential for all of us to have? The answer of course is our name; the name that for most of us we will be …
Sermon 2023-12-19
Sermon 19th December 2023 Carol Service The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all …
Sermon 2023-12-10
Sermon 10th December 2023 Evensong at St James’ Romans 15: 4-13, Luke 21: 25-33 What does Advent mean to you? Is it a season in it’s own right or just the inevitable pause, the holding of breath before Christmas? The time when life gathers pace as we prepare for the big day – shopping, planning, Christmas card writing, …
Sermon 2023-12-03
Sermon 3rd December 2023 Texts: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9, Mark 13: 24-end I give thanks to my god always for you, because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him….so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you …
2023-11-05 Sermon
5th November 2023 Texts: Psalm 43, Matthew 24: 1-14 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Psalm 42: 5 In your doubting may God’s truth become clear to you. in your fear may …
Music 2023-10-08 Sermon
8th October 2023 evensong 18:00pm Proverbs 2:1-11, 1 John 2:1-17 Both our readings begin in the same way addressing us as my child, or my little children. Slightly condescending perhaps, or are we to approach these teachings with the curiosity, the wonder and the awe that little children approach the world? With open minds and …
2023-10-01 Sermon
1st October 2023 – Harvest Luke 12:16-30 I’m going to need some help for this. Can you fill this jar with sand please? And now with marbles. And now with rocks. Won’t fit? Ok, start again. How about, marbles first, then sand then rocks? No? Let’s see if it fits with rocks first, then marbles then rocks. This is our life. …
Sermon from Family Praise Service – 17th September 2023
Sermon from Family Praise Service – 17th September 2023 If you’ve played a team sport before, like netball, cricket or football, you know the concept that when “if we win, I win.” Learning your place on the team and how to use your skills to enable the greatest success for the team is essential. Team …
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Reflection 2023-09-10
Reflection 10th September 2023 Meditation on “Father hear the prayer we offer” for Choral Evensong “Father, hear the prayer we offer; not for ease that prayer may be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives courageously.” What I wonder do we all make most central to our prayers and hazarding a guess …
