A sermon for St John’s Day for St Alban’s, Broadheath Is there anyone here named John …… or Jonathon, or Joan, or Jean, or Jeanette, or Janet, or Ian or Joanne or Johnson, or Jones ……? We light a candle to you today, because it is your name day – it is St John’s Day. Do […]
Sermon notes for July 12th 2015 St Thomas & All Saints, Ellesmere Port and St Lawrence’s, Stoak Ordinary 15B, Proper 10B Ephesians 1:3-14 What is your frame of mind? What frame of mind are you in? Where are you on a scale of -5 to +5, where -5 is very negative and +5 is very […]
Sermon – Nov 23rd 2014 Christ the King, Birkenhead. Christ the King Sunday So you want to be a sheep, do you? Do you remember PE at school – when teams were picked. “Pick me”. We prayed didn’t we that we wouldn’t be the last person chosen. There are two teams in today’s gospel (Matthew […]
Notes for a sermon preached at Holy Trinity, Gee Cross. Introduction Our two readings come from the end of Luke’s Gospel and the beginning of the Book of Acts. (Acts 1:1-11 and Luke 24:44-53) Luke ends his Part One and begins his Part Two with a celebration of Jesus’ Ascension. At first glance it looks […]
Sermon notes for Easter 2A for St Alban’s, Broadheath. Again, it could be said better, and I hope it will be. I share it anyway. The Gospel reading is John 20:19-31 Who likes ants? We are told to learn from the ants. Proverbs 6:6 – “Go to the ant, you sluggard: consider its ways and […]
Here are some notes for a sermon for the Feast of Christ the King, for the people of Christ the King, Birkenhead, for Sunday 24th November 2013 Today is the Festival of Christ the King. The feast of Christ the King was announced by Pope Pius XI in 1925 at the time when fascism was […]
A sermon preached at Mattins at Chester Cathedral on October 13th 2013. The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher (or, of one who is taught), that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens – wakens my ear to listen as those who […]
