Category: ‘Sermon’ like material

  • Advent 3

    After preaching on 'time' and commenting on the British Gas 'Hold' music, I wondered what would happen if the Church in Wales and British Gas got together! I played this at the end of the sermon – well it is refreshment sunday, as if we need a break from the frantic preparations for Christmas… Advent.mp3

  • Advent Carol Service

    This was a bit last minute, but it seemed to work. It is a bit rough, but suited the people! I used the Angel / Joseph dialogue from 'Candles and Conifers' before it… It was a long hard road to Bethlehem,We had been this way beforeThe hard and rocky groundOur feet were really sore. We…

  • Advent

    Well it's advent again, the readings from the lectionary this sunday are nicely obscure, just my luck it is a family service. "Watch ye, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh" Matt. 24:44.  I always remember the King James version of this because of the Film Shawshank Redemption, not that…

  • Remembrance

    Well, I thought I had played it safe (as safe as I have ever got) yesterday with a sermon on Micah.  Swords into ploughshares etc. Listening to the voices of the past and present, wartime poets like Siegfreed Sassoon. However, The quote from Thomas Merton got a distinct blank look… (note to self, leave room…

  • What would you put here?

    I'm giving these out with my sermon on Sunday!Sanctuary is on the right. It needs space for 200 people to sit comfortably (local funerals are well attended!) It needs to be done at minimum cost. The pews should probably be retained. That is pretty much my brief for the next three years.

  • Sermon no.1

    While friends are sunning! themselves on the distant isle of Iona – I was preaching my first sermon.It all went well really, of course I wasn't wise to the antics of the church warden, but was quick off the mark away from the lectern, missing the score card from the back by seconds!! It was…

  • Lent 1

    This morning I was privileged to be preaching on the first Sunday in Lent at St. Luke’s Canton. Much to my amazement me departure from the standard beginning of lent sermon went down well, reflecting as I was on the book by M. Scott Peck about community and how we could deepen our journey together…

  • Love

    Love, what can we say of it? Love is envious,Love is boastful, Love is resentful, Love is desirous, Love is lustful, Love is sensual, Love is stimulating, Love keeps a long and very detailed record of wrong-doing.Sentiments to be found perhaps mostly in films and music. Not quite the vision of Love given by St.…

  • Sunday (two weeks ago)

    Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece…

  • Our Daily Advent

    Imagine a theatre, an Elizabethan theatre perhaps, the ones with a stage surrounded by seating and an arena for standing viewers. It’s packed, there is a new play, the program has the title The Beginning of the Gospel about Jesus Christ, the son of God.’ The crowd are in hushed anticipation, not sure of what…