Category: Sermon

  • while we wait…

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    Biblical Texts: Malachi 3v1-4, Luke 3v1-6 Advent. A time of waiting. It is a time of the church year when we eagerly await the coming of Christ. The word comes from the Latin, meaning arrival, or coming. I love the church calendar, the liturgical year, because it takes us through the arc of God’s salvation…

  • looking back, around, and forward

    Biblical Texts: Psalm 23, John 15v9-17, Revelation 21v1-6 Remembrance Sunday is a tough service to deliver a talk. Here we are at the beginning of November, remembering those who died in war, and in just a few weeks we’ll enter Advent, where we often hear Jesus described as the Prince of Peace. It feels like…

  • sidelining sabbath?

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. On the first day, light, and on the second day the sky and the sea. On the third day came the earth and plants, and on the fourth day the sun, the moon, and the stars. On the fifth day fish in the sea and…

  • a harvest offering

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    Biblical Texts: 1 Timothy 6v6-10, Matthew 6v25-34 YouTube Link Our verses this morning might seem odd choices for a Harvest festival. First, there’s nothing from the Old Testament, where we can find plenty about harvest in general and food in particular. Second, there’s a lot about money. That’s not traditionally been a fun subject to…

  • judicious judging

    Texts: Exodus 18:13-26; Matthew 7:1-14 Moses chose able men from all Israel and appointed them as heads over the people, as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. And they judged the people at all times…  Exodus 18v26 Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement you make you…

  • solus Christus

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    (Sermon originally preached on 14th July at St. Mary’s in Kidlingon) Biblical Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of our hearts, be acceptable to you, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer. Amen. Church is an odd thing isn’t it? All of us could be somewhere else this morning.…

  • defining dominion

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    (This was originally a sermon preached for our Ecochurch Service, on 28th July, 2024. I have edited the introduction, but the body of the text is largely identical. If you would like to watch the sermon, you can find it here.) Biblical texts: Genesis 1:26-2:4, Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:16-21. For many of us, an important…