Sermons

Remembrance Sunday at Radley

Do not be afraid for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, you are mine Isaiah 43.1b + In nomine Patris… I don’t know if you’ve heard of ‘Banksy’.  If you haven’t here’s a bit about him. He is a street artist, specialising in gr… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 10th November 2013

Diocesan Confirmation Service

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Sermon by Ian Brackley on Sunday 3rd November 2013

All Saints Sunday at All Saints Fulham

It is good to be here this evening, amongst friends sharing your patronal festival. Today is about people and a vision: a celebration of all that has been, is and will be.   I summarised this morning’s sermon in a Tweet, saying: All Saints: called to lead distinctive lives rooted i… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 3rd November 2013

All Saints Sunday Eucharist

May we with all the saints in light shine as lights in the world. If you type the phrase "All Saints" into google, the first three links that come up are for the British fashion retailer All Saints, based in Spitalfields. At this time of year they're presenting Below the Knee -  a new women… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 3rd November 2013

Choral Mattins Last after Trinity

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Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 27th October 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Last after Trinity

Oscar Wilde’s story The Selfish Giant describes a garden of immense beauty, fecundity and joy.  The giant excludes children his garden. His selfishness is destructive. The world freezes over in a perpetual winter. Yet the children find a way of returning. They bring new life, fruit and… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 27th October 2013

Eve of St Simon & St Jude

In the letter to the Ephesians we read that we are no longer strangers and aliens, but ‘citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone’. (Ephesians 2.19, 20) As we… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 27th October 2013

Choral Mattins Trinity 21

For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed...Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 10 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I ha… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 20th October 2013

Cathedral Eucharist Trinity 21

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Sermon by Robert Cotton on Sunday 20th October 2013

Choral Evensong Trinity 21

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Sermon by Dianna Gwilliams on Sunday 20th October 2013

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Do we mean love, when we say love? Samuel Beckett’s work often has a tragicomic edge to it; but in this deceptively simple question, he forces us to consider something complex and intimate. He names our deepest desire and our greatest fear: do we mean love?  He acknowledges our potenti… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 13th October 2013

Harvest Festival Eucharist

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Sermon by Nancy Ford on Sunday 13th October 2013