During lockdown, we have been peppering occasional pieces onto Youtube alongside our regular Sunday worship. Please click here for a recently recorded reflection on Saint Cadoc, one of my favourite poems by John Betjeman. Observant listeners will hear the Three
Sermon by Kenneth Padley 25th December 2020 Readings: Titus 3.4-7, Luke 2.8-16 How do you shape your Christmas? How do you make this time of year really special? Lots of people are asking such questions this year because of having
Please click here to view John Hayton’s last sermon for this parish on 6th December 2020. A powerful and emotional occasion for all involved, our heartfelt thanks go to John for his many years of hard work and service to
1 November 2020, All Saints’ Day Readings: Ecclesiasticus 38:16-23; 1 Peter 1:3-7; Psalm 91 Introduction I want to start by saying thank you: thank you for coming here tonight and making time; time to pause as we reflect on death
Lk 10: 1-9. 2 Tim 4: 5-17. Today we celebrate St Luke. His day is actually today, 18th October. So it is good to be able to take a moment or two to look at the man, his gospel, his
Sermon for Harvest by Charles King, 11 October 2020 2 Corinthians 9:6-15, Luke 12:16-30 Today we celebrate harvest, and it’s been wonderful to come into church over the last few days and see the beautiful displays gradually take place. And
Hebrews 12:18-24, John 1:47-51 The Michael of our parish church rejoices in various different titles throughout the Bible. Perhaps most famously we think of him as an angel – a heavenly being from God, responsible for bearing a message. And
Sermon by John Hayton, Isaiah 56: 6-8; Matthew 15: 21-28. We have an appropriate sermon today for the holiday season – because it starts with Jesus on holiday like the vicar by the Mediterranean. Jesus was near the ancient city
Sermon by Kenneth Padley Reading: Genesis 12.1-4; John 3.1-17 We are still early in the solemn season of Lent, that period of penitence and reflection which leads up to Holy Week, the most important days of the year, in which
Sermon by Kenneth Padley 1st March 2020 Lent as is a time for giving things up. The season has come down to us from a tradition of fasting which developed in the early Church. Usually we think of fasting as