St Mark's Broomhill and BroomhallReadings: Exodus 32.7-14, Luke 15.1-10 Sermon: The Keeper of Lost Things When our children hear a parable, the Godly Play story begins with the story-teller looking for the box which has the story in it. The children can help. The box is gold because gold is valuable and a parable is valuable. But the box has […]
Readings: Luke 14.25-33; Philemon 1-21 Sermon: Discarding Bias Jesus turns to the people who are following him and says, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate their own father and mother and spouse and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even their own life, they cannot be my disciple.” There are, of […]
Readings: Hebrews 13.1-8, 15-16; Luke 14.1, 7-24 Sermon: ‘Who would come to your dream dinner party?’ It’s one of those questions that you find on the back page of weekend newspaper supplements. It’s a Guardian question – which in itself tells you something – but is perhaps more interesting than the Church Times version – ‘Who would […]
Readings: Isaiah 58: 9-14; Luke 13: 10-17 Sermon: Counterculture As I speak, our friends in the Beacon church in Broomhill are holding what will probably be the last service of worship to be held in the church after almost 160 years of there being a Methodist church on that site. As the members of the […]
Readings Jeremiah 23:23-29; Luke 12: 49-56 Sermon (This was one of those sermons where I found myself speaking to the congregation without the notes on the page. What I offer here was what I prepared in advance but it is not exactly what I preached). Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: such a way […]
Readings Hebrews 11.1-3, 8-16: Luke 12.32-40 Sermon Faith – according to George Michael, ‘you’ve gotta have [it]’. But what is faith? As a word, faith is a bit ‘woolly’, isn’t it? We use ‘faith’ in so many different ways that I’m not sure we know precisely what it means when it comes to our faith. […]
Readings Colossians 2.6-15; Luke 11.1-13 Sermon July has been an interesting month, in lots of ways. The extreme of the weather has reflected for me the extremes of settings I’ve found myself in. You’ve not seen much of me here recently as last Sunday I was at St Andrew’s URC for the morning service, and […]
Readings Genesis 18.1-10: Luke 10.38-end Sermon Loving God, many of us rush around day after day with never a moment to spare, teach us to be still and recognise your presence, so that we may meet with you, hear your voice and look at the world from your perspective. Amen. It was tempting to make […]
Readings: Deuteronomy 30:9-14; Luke 10:25-37 Sermon: The Good Samaritan I wonder how the parable of the Good Samaritan speaks to you today? It’s one of those stories which is very familiar and often referred to in a variety of contexts. Charitable projects are named after it and I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that […]
Readings: Genesis 1.14-17: John 3.1-17 Sermon: Psalm 19 begins: The heavens are telling the glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handiwork That is great fun to sing but we all realise that humanity’s understanding of the earth, our solar system, and of the whole cosmos has developed greatly since the ancient story of […]