A Church without walls
Carol sermon 1 of 2. (used Sat 12th Dec) I’d like to tell you about three people – Rachel – true story – the names might have been changed. It was earlier in the year and we were suddenly thrown into that first lock down. And so we had to quickly learn how to be […]
This little light of mine …
A sermon from Advent 3 on John the Baptist. 13th December (the section in brackets didn’t get preached) This is a sermon about John the Baptist – on the one hand he is pretty unique. On the other hand we’re all called to do what he did. And what he did was point people to […]
How to be a Prophet
(a sermon from Advent 2 6th December 2020) Prophets – Speak Tenderly. Prophets are people who speak to you what’s on God’s heart – they’re Not people who say This is what’s going to happen. They do do a little bit of that in the Bible – but actually most of the time even when […]
Remember Godspell?
A sermon from 22nd November 2020 – Christ the King. I was sorry to hear about the Death of Des O’Connor this week. But delighted to reminded of the joke where he’d declared himself to be a Self-made man and Eric Morecambe retorts: “Well its good of him to take responsibility” This is a sermon […]
How to have hard feet and a soft heart
Through this week I’ve been recording on Facebook little reflections on Ephesians 1.15-23. It might help to have a little read of that as you read these thoughts: On Monday (vs 15) I said You are God’s gift to me, and God help you, I am God’s gift to you. St Paul encourages us to […]
How to be a Saint
A sermon I preached on 1st Nov. (photo is part of the cover of a rather good book i commend) SAINTS ARE really really special people – we have churches named after extra special saints – St Luke – wrote Holy Scripture – wow, St Leonard – either he paid money to buy prisoners – […]
Pick it up and Read it
A sermon on Bible Sunday 25th October 2020. (Mat 24) So the main point of this sermon is to encourage you to READ THE BIBLE MORE, think about it, talk about it, explore it. Read Mark Learn and Inwardly digest! Why do you want to read the bible? How should you read the bible? Which […]
Make the Days Count
(Sermon from 15th Nov 2020. Matt 25.14-30. ) DON’T COUNT THE DAYS, BUT MAKE THE DAYS COUNT. IF you’re able to connect to Facebook then please go and connect to the St Leonards and St Luke’s Seaford facebook page. And new to our website is a tab marked Blog and there you’ll find some old […]
Lucy Loves walks to the Sea
As we begin a second lockdown and approach winter it looks like the opportunities for you to get to know James and I face to face are rather limited. So we thought we would start to tell you a bit about ourselves through this blog. So you can tell who is writing I am going […]
How to Wait for Six
(a sermon preached 18th October) This is a sermon about WAITING. We have new Covid Rules, as it happens, for us here there is little change, but for others in the country quite big ones. There’s anxiety regarding finances, employment, health. And we were told to brace ourselves that this is how things are likely […]