Trinity 3 17 June 2018 10.30 Sung Eucharist Revd Jonathan Cain 2 Corinthians 5: 6-17; Mark 4: 26-34 We welcome young children into this service occasionally, one such occasion being when we have a baptism like today. So welcome to Alfie and to his parents, Caroline and Guy, Alfie’s brother Henry, and their family. Alfie […]
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 […]
25 June 2017 Trinity 2 Revd Jonathan Cain Romans 6: 1b-11, Matthew 10: 24-39 Age divided UK in General Election more than any vote since the 1970s. This was the front page headline of the London Evening Standard a few days ago. The newspaper article highlighted research by Ipsos Mori which suggests that Labour’s vote share was […]
04 December 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist and Baptism Second Sunday in Advent Canon Simon Cowling Isaiah 11. 1-10; Matthew 3. 1-12 Which is the only professional football team in the United Kingdom to be named after St John the Baptist? Well, I hope that question has piqued your interest in my sermon sufficiently to ensure […]
10 January 2016 10.30 Sung Eucharist The Baptism of Christ Canon Simon Cowling Readings: Acts 8. 14-17; Luke 3. 15-17 & 21-22 I like the story of the small boy who came home from church one morning having seen baptisms for the first time. Such was his interest that he proceeded to baptise the three […]
11 October 2015 10.30 Sung Eucharist with Baptism Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Revd Simon Cowling Amos 5. 6-7 & 10-15; Mark 10. 17-31 Some of my deepest moments of humiliation have occurred in conversations with car mechanics. When our last family car was already long in the tooth, I picked it up from the […]