Sermons

For many years I have found Holy Saturday, [the day after Good Friday] particularly difficult. After the long climb through Lent into Holy Week, with […]

I can’t now remember how old I was when I first read the Passion narrative – the suffering of Jesus from his arrest on Maunday […]

Those who accompanied Jesus into Jerusalem that first Palm Sunday would have reacted to the events of the following week in different ways. Here’s one […]

Repent – and be watchful!     26th Feb. 2020   Madingley Isaiah 9:1-4             1 Cor. 1:10-18              Matt. 4:12-23 We are used, Sunday by Sunday, to our readings beginning with the OT […]

Searching and Finding   19 Jan 2020            St M-M Madingley Isaiah 49:1-7                                1 Cor. 1:1-9                      John 1:29-42 Last week we reflected on the fact that the baptism of Jesus is […]

Christmas Day 2019                              St Mary Magdalene Madingley Isaiah 9 2-7                           Titus 2 11-14             Luke 2 1-14, [15-20] I wonder: who, would you say is your “influencer?” Of course, […]

Sunday 6 October 2019, 16th Sunday after Trinity Morning Prayer 10.30 am Faith and faithfulness Someone was saying to me a while ago what they […]

Asking the Right Question 14th July 2019 Madingley Amos 7:7-17 Colossians 1:1-14 Luke 10:25-37 I wonder how many people here this morning remember World Refugee Year? […]

Mental Health and the Gospel 23rd June ’19 Madingley 1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a Gal. 3:23-29 Luke 8:26-39 We often hear from those beyond the church […]

In 1624, or thereabouts, the priest and poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself.  Every man is a piece of […]