Sermons by Chris Hollingshurst

Sermon for Easter 7

Easter 7, Year C [Ezekiel 36.24-28]  Acts 16.16-34; John 17.20-26 May I speak… As I was preparing to preach today, I came across these words: No land in sight. Kept on sailing.  It seems that these words formed a brief entry the ship’s log of Christopher Columbu… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 1st June 2025

64th Anniversary of Consecration and Community

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Well, here we are, once again worshipping God on a spring day in the Easter season 😊 Today there are signs and metaphors of new life everywhere we look – and I, for one, am feeling thankful. This weekend we are al… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 18th May 2025

Easter 2 Sermon

This week, I came across a quote from an eighteenth-century atheist French philosopher called, Denis Diderot. In case you are wondering, that particular school of thought isn’t at the top of my reading list but, as I stumbled upon it in passing it provoked a reaction in me.  Diderot… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 27th April 2025

A Sermon for Easter Sunday

Let us pray. This Easter Evening, help us O Lord to open our hearts and minds to what you would have us receive from you, and strengthen our faith in the power of your resurrection. Amen. As someone said, a lot can happen in seven days – and it has been quite a week here as, once again… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 20th April 2025

A Sermon for Mothering Sunday

I recall from when my now adult children were very young that dressing them could sometimes be challenging. They would need to be in the mood to be dressed and, as they began to learn to speak, gradually began to express their opinions about the outfits that had been selected for them. My wife, th… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 30th March 2025

A Sermon for Lent 2

Before ordination, I worked as a logistics and distribution planning manager for a major parcels company. It was fascinating. Whether I was dealing with road-borne parcel traffic, or express air parcels, the issues were the same: how to get the parcels to their destinations for the lowest cost tha… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 16th March 2025

A Sermon for Lent 1

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Every family in the land will know, or will have known, journeys by car in which from the back seat comes the plaintiff cry: ‘Are we nearly there, yet?’  The young travellers may know that, for example,… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 9th March 2025

A Sermon for Epiphany

Do you ever take notice of the Collect – the given Prayer for the Day? This week’s is a prayer that I love saying, because it sums up so much of what the Church holds to be true: Almighty God, in Christ you make all things new: transform the poverty of our nature by the riche… Read more

Sermon by Chris Hollingshurst on Sunday 19th January 2025