Sermons

Sunday 6 October 2019, 16th Sunday after Trinity Morning Prayer 10.30 am Faith and faithfulness Someone was saying to me a while ago what they […]

Asking the Right Question 14th July 2019 Madingley Amos 7:7-17 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 I wonder how many people here this morning remember World Refugee Year? […]

Mental Health and the Gospel 23rd June ’19 Madingley 1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a Gal. 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 We often hear from those beyond the church […]

In 1624, or thereabouts, the priest and poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself.  Every man is a piece of […]

Sunday 3 February 2019 – Candlemas:  the light of Christ in our lives St Luke is a very gifted storyteller.  The people who come into his […]

Sunday 2 September 2018, 14th Sunday after Trinity – Morning Prayer, 11.00 am WASHING HANDS James 1 17 – 27 I haven’t said very much […]

A recent attempt to put together an e-fit picture of God reveals how such things are doomed to failure, and ignores the fact that we have been adjured not to do that. But there’s a more important reason why we should not create images of God…

Our concept of kingdoms has to be set to one side when we try to discover what the Kingdom of God is like.

The doctrine of the Trinity is often seen as a major challenge to our understanding, yet it is not our minds, so much as reflection on our experience, which will enlighten us about it.

Today is not Palm Sunday, so why is this Gospel being read on the “wrong” day? John’s approach to the narrating of Jesus’ life story is different, and he wants us to see the shadow of the cross looming over all of his ministry. The cleansing of erroneous elements from the Temple has relevance for us as we consider our own lives and faith this Lent.