Preaching

I get invited to preach from time to time, mostly to cover for vacancies and holidays. Sometimes sermons can have a wider audience than the congregation they were prepared for. Here are some of those sermons, some seed scattered.

Year B

Easter 4B – A fierce gospel for savage times. April 21st 2024
Easter 2B – Being believed we become beloved. April 7th 2024
Easter Day – The young man in white linen – and the 1st Easter sermon. March 31st 2024
Palm Sunday – Seeing the wood for the trees. March 24th 2024
Lent 5B – Passion Sunday. Inspired by love and anger. March 17th 2024
On Anna, an Old Testament prophet. March 3rd 2024
Lent 2B – Righteousness rights wrongs. Feb 25th 2024
Lent 1B – We have nothing to prove and everything to love. Feb 18th 2024
Sunday before Lent B – On our way to Lent – where Mark leads us. Feb 11th 2024
2nd Sunday before Lent B – Beginnings and the meaning of life. Feb 4th 2024
Presentation of Christ B – Discovering consolation with Simeon and Anna. Jan 28th 2024
Mary’s words in our prayer for Christian unity. Jan 21st 2024
Christmas 1B – Taking the unsweetened Christmas story into our resolutions. Dec 31st 2023
Christmas night – Darkness needs light. Dec 24th 2023
Advent 3B – Setting Mary free to be herself – listening to her song. Dec 17th 2023

Year A 2023

• Lent 1A – Tempters and resistance. February 26th 2023
• Lent 2A – Retracing our steps to our first vocation. March 5th 2023
• Maundy Thursday – The shocking truth of my feet. April 6th 2023
• Easter 3A – Taking sides on the road to Emmaus. April 21st 2023
• Easter 5A – Redressing the power of kings – a sermon for coronation weekend. May 7th 2023
• Easter 7A – Mission that ends ends: preaching from Ascension to Pentecost. May 21st 2023
• Trinity 2A – Calling, names and insults – a homily on Matthew 5. June 19th 2023.
• Trinity 3A – Taking up the cross. What on earth does that mean? June 26th 2023
• Trinity 7A – Dealing with weeds and digging the seeds of Jesus’ teaching. July 23rd 2023
• Trinity 9A – The thousands of deserted places: exploring the feeding of the 5000. August 6th 2023
• Trinity 11A – Crumbs, the Canaanite woman is a faith leader. August 20th 2023
• Trinity 16A – So late in the day – the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. September 24th 2023
• Trinity 19A – Thinking about the wedding guest who got kicked out. October 15th 2023
• Trinity 20A – Blessing the small, the least, the last and all those suffering empire. October 22nd 2023
• Last after Trinity + Bible Sunday – Reading the Bible and learning from lessons. October 29th 2023
• All Saints Sunday – Saints and Stains. November 5th 2023
• 2nd Sunday before Advent A – Three people walk into a parable – the parable of the talents. November 19th 2023
• Sunday before Advent (A) – A Final Judgement: the parable of the sheep and goats – November 26th 2023