Make It A Graceful Welcome
Sermon preached on Sunday 16th August 2026 based on Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 and Matthew 15:21-28 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen I was pulled up...
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Reflection for Good Friday based on Isaiah 52:13-15 and John 18 & 19 ‘See, my servant shall prosper;he shall be exalted and lifted up,and shall be very high’. A high as the living treehewn with...
View ArticleFeeling Anxious? Why Worry?
Sermon preached on Sunday 8th February 2026 based on Romans 8:18-25 and Matthew 6:25-34 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord’ Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen Everyone has...
View ArticleSwords Into Ploughshares
Sermon preached for Advent Sunday 2025 based on Isaiah 2:1-5 and Matthew 24:36-44 The book of Isaiah is one of my go-to books in the bible when I want to think about hope and the future. It is...
View ArticleAgape
Two autumnal maple leaves held together to recognise differences in the church that we hope and pray will look for unity rather than division through the shedding of Christ’s blood. My focus as an...
View ArticleThe Perfect Time In The Perfect Way
Sermon preached on Holy Cross Day – 14th September 2025 based on Philippians 2:6-11, John 3:13-17 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen This morning,...
View ArticleTransforming The Imperfect
Sermon preached on Sunday 29th June 2025 – St Peter and St Paul based on Acts 12:1-11, Matthew 16:13-19 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen....
View ArticleThe Waiting Game
Sermon preached on the 7th Sunday of Easter based on Acts 16:16-34 and John 17:20-26 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen I’m not very good at...
View ArticleDo You Know How Much That Cost?
Sermon preached on Passion Sunday 6th April 2025 based on John 12:1-8 and Philippians 3:4b-14 ‘Do you know how much that cost? I could have used that for a lifetime,’ was the heated response to...
View ArticleKeeping Faith
Sermon preached on Sunday 23rd February 2025 based on Luke 8:22-25 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit I wasn’t expecting to end up in A & E on...
View ArticleSpiritual Gifts
Sermon preached on 19th January 2025 based on 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and John 2:1-11 Receiving a gift can be very exciting. Maybe we only have to look back a few weeks to Christmas Day, or a Christmas...
View ArticleFollow Me…
Sermon preached on Remembrance Sunday 2024 based on Mark 1:14-20 Alfie Couzens was nineteen years old. He had been born within a couple of years of the ending of the Great War, the war to end all...
View ArticleWho Is My Mother, Who Is My Brother…?
Sermon preached on Sunday 9th June 2024 – Trinity 2 – based on Mark 3:20 to end. May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Who is my mother? Well,...
View ArticleWhen You Come in Fourth
Sermon preached on Sunday 12th May – Easter 7 based on Acts 1:15-17, 21-end, May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen In one of the many art...
View ArticleWhen Heaven Touches Earth
Sermon preached at Midnight Mass based on Isaiah 9:2-3, 6-7 and Luke 2: 1-14 . May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. ‘It came upon the midnight...
View ArticleGod’s Time Is In The Waiting
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent based on 2 Peter 3:8-15a and Mark 1:1-8 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen I hate waiting… I’m a...
View ArticleThere Is Always Hope
A thought for our Remembrance Sunday Service When all else has gone there is always hope. When we hit rock bottom, there is always hope. When we can see no light at the end of the tunnel, there is...
View ArticleYour God Is My God
Continuing our Old Testament series, a talk based on Ruth 1: 1-18, 22 May I speak and may you hear, through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Ruth – one of only two books of...
View ArticleGod’s Promises
Part of an Old Testament series working our way through the key figures and stories, in which Abram looms large. Based on Genesis 15:1-6 May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord;...
View ArticleLetting Go
Talk based on John 17:11-19 I wonder how many of you, if you’ve ever been a parent, or have trained someone in an apprenticeship or simply have given some instructions and then had to leave someone to...
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