Sermon Archive: 2025

Christ the King

Homily: “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” (Luke 23:42) During the dark days of the Blitz in the 1940s, London was under constant threat of bombing. When it was suggested that Queen Elizabeth and her two daughters—Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret—shou… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 23rd November 2025

4th Sunday before Advent | 2 November 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen In 2018, Dan Price, CEO of a Seattle company, cut his million-dollar salary to raise his workers' minimum wage to $70,000 a year. What led to that decision? A lawsuit from his brother forced Price to confront something… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 2nd November 2025

All Souls Requiem Eucharist

On this solemn feast of All Souls, we gather as the Church Militant to pray for those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith. We stand at the threshold between this world and the next, united in the great mystery of the Communion of Saints, where the veil between heaven and earth gr… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 2nd November 2025

All Saints 1 November 2025

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of The Holy Spirit. Amen. In the year 651, the great missionary bishop Aidan lay dying on the island of Lindisfarne. This Irish monk, who had brought the Gospel to Northumbria and established a monastery that would light the lamp of faith across nort… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Saturday 1st November 2025

Last Sunday after Trinity – Lk 18: 9-14

26 October 2025 – Last Sunday after Trinity – Lk 18: 9-14 Today’s gospel reading brings us one of Jesus’ most powerful parables — a simple story with a deep message that speaks directly to every human heart. Jesus tells us of two men who go up to the temple to p… Read more

Sermon by Paul Thompson on Sunday 26th October 2025

John 16,1-11

John 16,1-11 I have a great love of 15th century Northern European painting. You probably know, for example, Van Eyck’s painting called the  Arnolfini Marriage which is in the National Gallery. It shows  two people, a man and a woman standing side by side. He is wearing a large… Read more

Sermon by Christopher Herbert on Sunday 19th October 2025

Love, Sacrifice and Equality

Nehemiah 6.1-16, John 15.12-27 In 1964 the folk singer Bob Dylan sang: I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you Beat or cheat or mistreat you Simplify you, classify you Deny, defy or crucify you All I really want to do Is, baby, be friends with you And so on for a further 5 ve… Read more

Sermon by Steve Summers on Sunday 12th October 2025

Washing in Unfamiliar Waters

A friend of mine, a hospital chaplain, once told me about visiting a particularly cantankerous elderly patient. This gentleman—let's call him Arthur—had made it clear he wanted nothing to do with "God botherers." But hospital policy meant my friend had to at least check i… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 12th October 2025

Michaelmas Sermon

High above the Tiber River in Rome stands the ancient Castel Sant'Angelo, crowned by a magnificent bronze statue of St. Michael the Archangel. This fortress bears its holy name because of a miraculous vision. When there was a devastating plague ravaging Rome in the sixth century, Pope Gregory… Read more

Sermon by Bob Cooper on Sunday 28th September 2025

Discipleship

Prayer: May I speak in the name of God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen.   I wonder if any of you has been an apprentice? The nearest I have ever been is when I learnt to play musical instruments. Lessons were always one-to-one with a teacher, and the best teachers were thos… Read more

Sermon by Rachel Young on Sunday 7th September 2025

The Holy Spirit | 31 August 2025

Prayer: May I speak in the name of God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen. In the first three chapters of the Gospel of John, we hear a lot about the early ministry of Jesus and John the Baptist. Luke also wrote about their early lives: they were related – we’re told that… Read more

Sermon by Rachel Young on Sunday 31st August 2025

Status vs Servanthood

Prayer: May I speak in the name of God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen. Today we are celebrating the feast day of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle and Evangelist. Bartholomew was one of Jesus’ first disciples, mentioned in four lists of disciples in the New Testament. Not much is know… Read more

Sermon by Rachel Young on Sunday 24th August 2025