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Category archives: Sermons
Sermon 2026-04-05
5th April 2026 – Easter Day Acts 10:34-43, John20: 1-18 Many of you, I am sure, saw at least some of the some of the service in Canterbury Cathedral when Archbishop Sarah was installed in the episcopal chair of St Augustine. A service of magnificent impeccably choreographed …
Sermon 2026-03-08
8th March 2026 Evensong – Sermon When I was strong armed into giving a short talk today, by David John, I didn’t realise at the time just how foolhardy it was, as I can’t pronounce any of the Welsh words! Be that as it may, as an English imposter, I am delighted to talk to …
Sermon 2026-03-01
8th March 2026 Evensong – Sermon Exodus 17:1-7, John 4:7-15 How much have you complained or had a good grumble this week? At a guess if you are anything like me you have had something uncomplimentary to say about the weather, muttered about all the potholes flourishing in just about every road we travel and …
Sermon 2026-02-08
18th February 2026 – Sermon Proverbs 8: 1, 22-31, Matthew 6: 25-end Worry! Worry is a very human characteristic of our lives; and I am sure we can all testify to times both past and present when we have really worried about both our personal future and the future of God’s world as a whole, Worry …
Sermon 2026-02-01
1st February 2026 – Sermon Candlemas I can’t wait to be a grandparent! I think I’m just about ready! You may or may not be a baby person. I’ve always been a bit of a baby person. To hold a young baby in your arms and look into its eyes – into that wide-eyed, penetrating …
Sermon 2026-01-04
4th January 2026 – Epiphany Isaiah 60: 1-6, Matthew 2: 1-12 All are called and welcomed and accepted Evelyn Underhill Today we come to what I see as the third chapter in the story of the Nativity. A story with which we are all so familiar and yet it never loses its power to …
Sermon 2025-12-28
28th December 2025 – Benefice service Matthew 2:13-18. Today’s lectionary readings bring us firmly back to earth with a bump after Christmas. As I read them I began to question why on earth I had volunteered to preach today! Just 3 days ago, we gathered in church to worship together and joyfully celebrate Jesus’s birth. …
Sermon 2025-12-18
18th December 2025 – Lessons & Carols Already we have joined with the choirs of angels praising God and singing ‘Glory to God in the Highest.’ Now in this short space of time ‘Come let us go’ and join with the shepherds and go down from the hillside to Bethlehem. Come let us go Come …
Sermon 2025-12-14
14th December 2025 – Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 When Isaiah penned his “Rivers In the Desert” poem, Judah was in a bad way—internally Judah was corrupt and externally it was under threat of foreign invasion. But the poet of audacious hope does not despair; instead he proclaims that God will come, and in …
