A Christmas morning blessing
A 5 pointed sermon for you today! Afterall its Christmas! It’s a prayer, a blessing, for you to know – the Eagerness of the Shepherds, the Joy of the Angels, the Perseverance of the Wise, the Obedience of Joseph and Mary, and the Peace of Jesus Christ. That’s my prayer, that’s the 5 points. […]
The Creed tells us we have a vocation
Gaudete Gaudete Christos est natus ex maria virginae Gaudete! – Rejoice Rejoice, Christ was born of the virgin Mary, rejoice. Welcome to Rejoice Sunday. It why we lit the pink candle, its why I’m wearing Rev Janice Bartholomew’s rose coloured stole – today is Rejoice Sunday. The idea being that in the middle of […]
We believe
Happy New Year! The Church of England, well really all churches, start their liturgical years on Advent. So Happy New Year. Last year had some scary bits in it. Quite likely this next year will too. But remember Stefan’s sermon from last week and hold on to Jesus and to each other and you will […]
A Remembrance Sermon
Preached at St. Leonard’s at 9.30am on Sunday 10th November 2024 “It was Sam [Gamgee]’s first view of a battle of Men against Men. And he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead [man’s] face. He wondered what the man’s name was and where he came from; […]
Approach the throne of God with confidence
A sermon from James: Hebrews 4.12-16, Mark 10.17-31, Sunday 13th October 2024. Jesus looked at him and loved him. I like that bit. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Jesus is confronted in today’s gospel reading by someone who’s got everything, lots of money. The only thing he lacks is that assurance of […]
Seek First the Kingdom of God and ….
A Harvest sermon (see also Matt 6.25-33, 1 Tim 6.6-10) Can I start off by saying Happy Birthday to me! I think of Harvest as my Birthday and today is my 4th birthday, and the start of my 5th year. A little while back, when I was about 20, I got my first car. […]
Letters from Sabbatical #3
Dear Brothers and Sisters, For this letter we find ourselves back in Seaford following two delightful weeks in Northumbria. The planned purpose of this time was to consider and reflect upon all we had heard and learned over the past six weeks. We had reached the mid-part of the sabbatical time. We arrived full of […]
P.U.S.H
a sermon preached on 29th Sept 2024 at St Luke’s (from James 5.13-end) Today’s take home point is Pray. Pray Until Something Happens. PUSH. If all is well with you and the world – Pray. IF you’re having one of those days, weeks, then Pray. If you’re struggling with a sin, Pray. IF you […]
Pray Bad Prayers
as preached on 22 Sept 2024 from James 3-4. I want to encourage you today to pray Bad Prayers. Pray prayers that are not well thought through, that have poor grammatical construction, I want you to pray selfish prayers, angry prayers, stupid prayers, bold prayers. And I want you to add to these prayers a […]
Let mercy triumph over judgement
A sermon helped by James 3.1-12 and Mark 8.27ff “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it” that’s a quote by Dumbledore from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Books. Kamala Harris in her book The Truths we hold published in 2018 wrote “Words have the ability […]