Sermon – 11 OctoBer 2026 – Choral Evensong Proverbs 3:1-18 and 1 John 3:1-15. I don’t think I am supposed to have favourite bible verses…. But today’s passage from 1 John contains words that I find so deeply evocative that I often remind myself of them when worries threaten to overwhelm. ‘See what great love …
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Sermon 2026-10-04
Sermon – 4th OctoBer 2026 Psalm 148, Luke 12: 13-21 I was talking to a friend and mentioned that we were celebrating St Francis today and her immediate response was ‘Oh everyone knows about St Francis’ which prompted my response ’Well what do you know?’ To which she replied ‘he loved animals’ ‘And what else …
Sermon 2026-09-13
Sermon – 13th September 2026 – Evensong Isaiah 12:2-6, Matthew 3:1-12 This evening we have heard sung one of my favourite psalms albeit not in its entirety. A psalm of praise of joy of thankfulness what more could one ask for at a service of Choral Evensong. Those first words ‘Make a joyful noise to …
Sermon 2026-09-06
Sermon – 6th September 2026 Creationtide On this Sunday as we reflect on creation I’d like to take us back to our ‘why’ – why should this be important to us as Christians? If you were to walk into an art gallery today and look at a painting by Vincent van Gogh, you wouldn’t need …
Sermon 2026-07-19
Sermon – 19th July 2026 – 7th Sunday after Trinity – Patronal Festival Isaiah 12:2-6 Matthew 20:20-28 Agatha Christie wrote that ‘A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no laws, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that sticks in its path.’ Which …
Sermon 2026-07-12
Sermon – 12th July 2026 – 6th Sunday after Trinity – Choral Evensong Isaiah 55: 10-13, Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 As some of you know I have recently been on holiday for a week and in my absence my lovely neighbour had been watering all my pots. However, she also went off on holiday before …
Sermon 2026-07-05
Sermon – 5th July 2026 – 5th Sunday after Trinity Matthew 11:16-19 and 25-30/Romans 7:15-25a. Feeling frustrated is a very human emotion. I am sure we can all remember feeling frustration at some point with something or someone in the last couple of weeks. Last Saturday morning, I chose the slowest self-scanning till at the …
Sermon 2026-06-28
Sermon – 28th June 2026-Fourth Sunday after Trinity A Joint Service of Sung Mattins I’m sure I’m not the only one who is happily transported by that beautiful anthem of Howard Goodall’s to the very funny television series ‘The Vicar of Dibley’; familiarly set in a rural parish, with a full-of-love-and-faith female vicar juggling the …
Sermon 2026-06-07
Sermon – 7th June 2026 1st Sunday after Trinity Mathew 9:9-13 There is so much that I could focus on in our readings this morning – I was spoilt for choice! But these words struck me as I read Matthew – “Go and learn what this means,” Jesus says in today’s gospel reading, “‘I desire …
Sermon 2026-05-10
Sermon – 10th May 2026 John 21:1-14 In the Gospel, the disciples worked hard the whole night—and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not careless. They were not doing something wrong. They were trying. And yet… nothing happened. And this is where the Gospel becomes very real for us. Because many of …
