Sermons

Mattins Sixth Sunday of Easter

So God created man in his own imageGenesis, chapter 1, verse 27 Glorious things of thee are spoken, o city of God;Psalm 87, verse 3 Your life is hid with Christ in GodColossians, chapter 3, verse 3 The Bible is a storybook with pictures, a narrative with illustrations. My three texts offer… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 5th May 2013

The Fifth Sunday of Easter

It is very instructive to spend a little time observing children playing. It is extremely good for adults: the sheer joyfulness, imagination and exuberance of play. Would that many adults could recapture that playfulness in life and faith: but we ‘grown ups’ become experienced in the w… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 28th April 2013

Feast of St George, martyr, patron of England

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I wonder what colours you most associate with St George’s Day. Red, white and… green? Red for the blood of the martyr, white for the resurrection of Christ and the triumph George now shares in, and green…… Read more

Sermon by on Tuesday 23rd April 2013

Second Sunday of Easter

You had to be there. It was amazing. No really, I can’t describe it. You had to be there. We’ve all joined the conversation 30 seconds after the funniest anecdote. Or got stuck in traffic and missed the gig; or spent ages trying to book tickets for the Olympics only for the website to… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 7th April 2013

Easter Day Festal Evensong

The Risen Christ came and stood among his disciples and said, ‘Peace be with you’. Then were they glad when they saw the Lord. Alleluia. † In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In my last church the principal entrance and exit was a great no… Read more

Sermon by on Sunday 31st March 2013

Good Friday Three Hours

Let me go there, he said. I want to begin this time of reflection with a word about Nic Fiddian-Green’s sculpture, Christ Rests. Throughout Lent we have perhaps been taken aback by the scale of this creative work, the starkness of the thorns and the curl of the hair; perhaps we have been d… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 29th March 2013

Good Friday Addresses

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT IN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST JOHN Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing… Read more

Sermon by on Friday 29th March 2013

Maundy Thursday

Tonight is a time of few words. In the washing of feet, the breaking of bread and the outpouring of wine, we see the breadth and depth of God’s love for us.  In what we touch, taste and enact, we are given a model for how we are to love. Here, is love: embodied, enacted, felt, tasted,… Read more

Sermon by on Thursday 28th March 2013

Lent 5 - 17 March 2013

One of the most celebrated and frequently-reproduced religious paintings of the twentieth century is Salvador Dali’s,  ‘Christ of St John of the Cross’.  I expect you’re familiar with it.  Painted against a dark background, the monumental figure of the crucif… Read more

Sermon by Nicholas Thistlethwaite on Sunday 17th March 2013

Mattins Lent 5

There is therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Paul to the Romans, chapter 8 verse 1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose. Isaiah chapter 35, verse 1 There is a parallel between our readin… Read more

Sermon by David Martin on Sunday 17th March 2013