First Sunday in Lent1 March 202010.30 EucharistJenny Sinclair The sermon (in PDF format) can be seen here.
Welcome + Worship + Witness
Welcome + Worship + Witness
Sermons on Genesis
Candlemas2 February 202010.30 EucharistRevd Nicholas Mercer As many of you now know, we sent our daughter to a Catholic School in Sherborne Known as the “nuns on the hill” they were educated in a beautiful Palladian manor called Leweston The rule of thumb goes that “the boys at Sherborne date the girls at Sherborne but marry the […]
I want say a huge ‘thank you’ to Nicholas for inviting me to speak here this morning. Nick and I became close friends in the Falklands where I was the Headteacher of the secondary school and he was the Priest in Charge of the Cathedral, we were both from very different church backgrounds but had […]
Trinity 16: Harvest29 September 201910.30 EucharistRevd Dr Nicky von Fraunhofer Jesus asks the crowds, ‘Do you not say, four months more, then comes the harvest? …But look around you, and see the fields are ripe for harvest…The reaper reaps their wages and gathers fruit for eternal life; the sower and reaper rejoice together.’ Today we […]
19 August 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity Canon Simon Cowling Ephesians 5. 15-20; John 6. 51-58 We believe in life before death. Some years ago, Christian Aid introduced this statement into its annual campaign. It succeeds in being unobjectionable, challenging and subversive in equal measure. The statement is unobjectionable because it’s […]
18 February 2018 Lent 1 Revd Jonathan Cain Gen. 9: 8-17; Mark 1: 9-15 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.” You may now be thinking one of two things. Either Jonathan has lost the plot and forgotten to do […]
08 October 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist Harvest Festival (Trinity 17) Canon Simon Cowling Deuteronomy 8. 7-18; Matthew 21. 33 – end One day Rabbi Akiva met a man who asked him, ‘who created the world?’ ‘Why, God created the world, answered the rabbi’. ‘What proof do you have?’ asked the man. ‘Come back tomorrow and […]
Editor’s note. This sermon is the second by three visiting preachers in the Priory’s Lent sermon series in which we are reflecting theologically on the theme of ‘Business and the Kingdom’. The Venerable Dr Andy Jolley is Archdeacon of Bradford. Before ordination Andy worked as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer for the Ford Motor Company and subsequently as a […]
Editor’s note. This sermon is the first by three visiting preachers in the Priory’s Lent sermon series in which we are reflecting theologically on the theme of ‘Business and the Kingdom’. Cal Bailey is a Reader at St James Woodside in Leeds. He is both a Chartered Accountant and National Engineering Scholar and is sustainability Director […]
19 February 2017 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Second Sunday before Lent Revd Jonathan Cain Gen. 1:1 – 2:3; Mt. 6: 25-end “Truth is tricky. We have to take more seriously how prone we are to deluding ourselves that we have the truth. Furthermore, the scope for delusion is greatest when we are powerful – and when […]