On being a witness to the Resurrection
This might have been preached at 8am. I’m not sure. based off Acts 10.34-43 Jesus Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed Hallelujah. I was proud of my son who has been learning modern Greek so when I texted him – Christe aneste – he replied: Alethos anesti! Truly He is Risen! I thought […]
Why is it Good Friday?
(A Passion Sunday sermon from John 12.20-33) Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? Jesus gives us three answers to this question, just in this passage here. There are lots of times when a sermon looks at what Jesus did and then says: We should be like Jesus. That sort of thing. But today’s sermon […]
Keeping a good Lent
Mark 1.9-15 Lent 1 18th Feb 2024 Welcome to Lent. Have you ever noticed how we don’t celebrate Lent, we Keep it. We celebrate Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, and we celebrate Mothering Sunday, Easter Day, but we don’t celebrate Lent, we keep it. The aim of these 40 days is for you to draw closer […]
Ash Wednesday: the woman caught in
John 8.1-11, Ash Wednesday 2024. I’m super excited to be able to preach this evening. I’ve not been able to come to an evening Ash Wednesday service for 7 years. Every Year on this day I have found myself giving a Church History Lecture to 2nd term trainee Clergy and Readers and Preachers. By about […]
Transfiguration
11th Feb 2024 Sunday before Lent, Mark 9.2-9 What an amazing moment. I wonder what for you has been the most life changing experience you’ve had? I suppose I’m thinking along the joyful lines. So for me I could say it was holding my first born Ruth, something happened in that moment that significantly spiritually […]
An Awesome Sermon
Col 1.15-20, John 1.1-14 2 Before LENT 4th Feb 2024 in St Luke’s Today I am going to preach to you an Awesome sermon. And I know you’re thinking: Aha about time too! When someone says to you later How was your weekend, I want you to say ‘I went to church and I heard […]
You’re invited to the Marriage of the Lamb
21st Jan from Rev19. Ok I’m going to have a go at the reading we had from Revelation. And the question you’re going to have in the back of your mind is What are you doing to get ready for this heavenly wedding? Its not easy to read Revelation. We had it last week […]
Did you find Jesus or did Jesus find you?
from 14Jan from John1 My prayer today is that we might have both the courage of Philip and the enthusiasm of Nathaniel and that perhaps we might catch a glimpse of what Jesus sees in you/me, or indeed catch a glimpse of those angels ascending and descending. Jesus finds Philip. We often preach about […]
Lucy’s Reflection sheet for 2024
Rev Lucy drew a Watchnight Reflections 2023-2024 as a prayerful way of looking back over last year and looking forward into 2024 The link below should take you to a pdf Lucy Reflection2024 and here could be a jpeg version. Both will print onto A4
Christmas morning
Luke 2.1-20. Isa 9.2-7. Christmas Day. St Lens 9.30 (with thanks to Jude Simpson’s poem Angels) God likes paperwork Do you see how God moves Caesar to make sure the prophecy is fulfilled- so that Jesus is born in Bethlehem. Angels: Don’t be afraid: 2 reasons 1st Reason to be afraid: Caesar rules the […]