Soap for Advent? do i smell?
an Advent 2 sermon on Malachi I wonder if when you pray your prayers are quite formal, as if you’re addressing a Judge. Or your prayers are quite chummy as if you’re talking to an old chum. Or.. I gave Derreck a couple of Advent books and he gave me a couple that he’d found […]
Prophets – 5 reflections towards Advent 2
This is the text of my Thought for the Days. Mon 29th – This week, in the run up to the 2nd Sunday of Advent, lets look at the Prophets. Yesterday was Advent 1: O Come o come Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, – wonderful advent hymn. So last week I talked about the Patriarchs […]
Patriarchs – 5 reflections on the build up to Advent 1
These are my texts for Thought for the Days – there might be some spelling mistakes! Monday 22 Advent! Welcome to almost Advent, this coming Sunday is that start of the four Sundays that lead us up to Christmas. This is a time of preparation. I will try to repeat this point a couple of […]
Poetry Poppy Power Peace Prayer
(this was a sermon that Lucy wrote and preached in St Luke’s and I preached in St Leonards 14Nov2021) May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is Remembrance Day when we remember those […]
Wait Eagerly = Eagerly Live, eagerly love,
a sermon from 7th Nov ?Why is it that Jesus says to these people Come follow me and they just do, they just drop everything there and then and go? What’s Jesus doing in heaven? What are you like at Waiting? I’m rubbish at waiting. But there are different sorts of waiting and there are […]
Be the Saint God is calling you to be
(a sermon i preached at Kingston 31st ) Thank you Geoff for your kind invitation to come and preach today. 31st – is Reformation Day! this is the day when we celebrate Luther in 1517 nailing his theses to the Church Door – if you have a thesis of your own please don’t nail it […]
Cheer up! (a sermon from 24th Oct)
prayer tree in St Leonard’s
Your sisters’ keeper
Sermon from Safeguarding Sunday
Photo from Wholeness Eucharist
Black History Month: October
8th October 2021. Pastoral Letter Dearly Beloved October is Black History Month. Schools have been looking at key black people in history. I’ve been doing thought for the days on some key black African saints. Consider St Augustine, his mum St Monica, St Athanasius, St Tertullian, Origen, martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas and I could just […]
A Pilgrimage of Sort
(This is a Pastoral letter that was sent out to 120 or so people who are part of our Church Family but unable to connect to Church through Youtube/Facebook. We’ve been sending out letters like this fortnightly for over a year.) Dearly Beloved I went for a 13mile walk yesterday. No I didn’t think I […]