Category: ‘Sermon’ like material

  • On the sofa with Will Freeman

    After writing this for Passion Sunday, during the service I noticed that all the collects, prayerlets and general liturgical material for Passiontide was about getting closer to Jesus. Well, I had the distinct opposite impression from the readings, that at this point, Jesus is turning his face more towards the cross and the Disciples are…

  • Lent two Marcus and his cross to bear

    I should really catch up on posting these before the week is out!! Second Sunday in Lent, (last week) continuing the theme from ‘About a Boy’  Marcus Brewer takes up his cross.

  • Lent One: About a Boy

    I have been fascinated with the film About a Boy for a while and used it to convey a message about the trinity, well Lent has come around, so now I have been busily delving into the richness of this film again, this time for a whole series of Lent sermons all based around charachters…

  • a bit of a talk…

    “Of course they will expect a bit of a talk…” Those words were echoing through my mind as the first reading from Genesis was being read. Creation, story, unbelief, busses and their god-less messages anything less meaningless!! Inspiration at the last possible moment came whilst drifting away from the reading back to the morning’s breakfast.…

  • Lament and Rejoice

    My offering for tomorrow, reflection on a year past and hope for a brighter one to come! To lament a leaf… How empty stands the winter tree, once with a canopy full of leaves. How bare you are without adornments, No green covering to shade and protect. You wept bitterly in the early autumn sun,…

  • Sound of Silence

    It’s been one of those weeks, culminating in today, when I have been humming along to a tune.  Fortunately this week it has been one I’m quite familiar with and fond of!! I treated the congregation to the full three minutes and five seconds of what is perhaps one of Paul Simon’s best known pieces…

  • Trinity in Film

    Last Monday it was hinted at that you couldn’t teach doctrine without lecturing… The film ‘About a Boy’ seems to teach it admirably well, I used it as a reflection for today’s sermon – just watching the film would have been better of course – ‘No man is an Island’  (John Donne, not Jon Bon…

  • The dance of the trinity

    This description of the Trinity is not new, it popped into my head quick enough when thinking about Sunday’s services!!  I did however find this wonderful sermon on the subject, recklessly googling the line I came up with the Very Revd Alan Jones, a Londoner and Dean of Grace Cathedral – San Francisco his sermon…

  • the way, the truth, the life

    I reminded myself of some comments I made whilst being interviewed for the Diocesan Mag this week, namely that I (we) should make time to prepare properly for worship, making time amongst the pressures around. However, breaking my own suggestion, I kind of rushed the sermon on Sunday. I wonder whether I was too keen…

  • Angels Wings

    Well it has taken a while to write this, probably all the worse for that.  It assumes that the Christmas story is played out in heaven (as if it were a different place to earth) every year, just as it is played out in our churches.  (Cue philosophical discussion about heaven.) However, it was inspired…