20th July 2025 – St James the Apostle For us, celebrating the feast day of St. James is an occasion for a party, a festive celebration, a good time. But the fact that our Church is named after St. James, that St. James the Apostle is our patron saint, probably doesn’t mean a great deal …
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Sermon 2025-07-13
13th jULY 2025 eVENSONG Genesis 32:9-30 and Mark 7:1-23. I love escaping into the pages of a good book, it is something I have enjoyed since I was a young child. Sometimes we can be tempted to skip ahead to find out what happens next. I remember being told by my mother how much it …
Sermon 20205-07-06
6th July 2025 2 Kings 5: 1-14, Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20 Today we have had as our first reading one of my favourite stories from the Old Testament because in part it has so many insights into human behaviour and ultimately about trust in God. Naaman, undoubtedly an important man, commander of the king of …
Sermon 2025-06-08
8th June 2025 – Evensong 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, The Wisdom of God Today the church celebrates Pentecost or Whitsunday; the birth of the church when the Holy Spirit was let loose among us mere mortals. As a point of interest the term Whitsunday is derived from the middle English Whitsonday, literally meaning White Sunday; probably from …
Sermon 2025-06-01
1st June 2025 – 7th Sunday of Easter Across our readings this morning and our focus on the Ascension we have a common theme; one of love and unity. Indeed a recurring theme and message through the whole of the biblical story! But nowhere is it put so poetically and repetitively than in John’s Gospel. …
Reflection 2025-06-01
Reflections from the Rectory – June 2025 It may seem strange to some to see an Anglian Priest quoting words from the Catholic Pope but we are all part of the same universal church (catholic with a small ‘c’) and are all disciples of Jesus. These words from Pope Leo are so special that I …
Sermon 2025-05-11
11th May 2025 Choral Evensong – Dedication Service John 10:22-30 Is there a more frequently reoccurring metaphor than that of the shepherd in the Bible? To be honest I don’t know – there are other contenders, the vine, perhaps, or ‘light’. But in any case the shepherd is up there, naturally enough, one might say, …
Sermon 2025-05-04
4th May 2025 – Parish Communion Acts 9:1-20 and John 21:1-19. Today blesses us with two of the greatest calling stories in the Bible. Those of Peter and of Paul, or Saul as he was known then. Stories so familiar that we have read, listened, reflected and heard sermons on them many times in our …
Sermon 2025-04-27
27th April 2025 – Benefice Service Acts 5: 27-32, John 20: 19-end Alleluia Christ is risen he is risen indeed alleluia. What tosh! What balderdash! What nonsense! Talk about being away with the fairies not to mention dragons, unicorns and all other fanciful things. Jesus Christ is risen, no way! Simply delusional. Such sentiments have …
Sermon 2025-04-20
20th April 2025 – Easter Day Luke 24:1-12 I am always a bit relieved when our gospel reading for Easter is from St. Luke. He is the only one of the gospel writers to say, in verse 11, that the women’s news of Jesus’ being raised sounded to the apostles like “an idle tale.” Sightly …
