Sermons from 2017 (Page 4)

Sermons from 2017 (Page 4)

Annunciation

Annun­ci­ation  Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Feast of the Annun­ci­ation, Fourth Sunday in Lent, 26th March, 2017 Read­ing: Luke 1. 26–38. Not sur­pris­ingly, Luke’s beau­ti­fully craf­ted story of the Angel Gabriel’s vis­it to Mary has inspired artists, writers and schol­ars through­out the cen­tur­ies. In the his­tory of West­ern Art, the Annun­ci­ation has…

Living Water

Liv­ing Water Ser­mon preached at Enmore, 3rd Sunday in Lent, 19th March 2017 Read­ings: Exodus 17: 1–7; Romans 5. 1–11; John 4: 5–42 The author of the Fourth Gos­pel loves to describe Jesus’ encoun­ters with par­tic­u­lar indi­vidu­als. Last Sunday we read about Nicodemus, the Phar­isee, who comes to speak with Jesus under the cov­er of dark­ness. Today, in sharp…

Born from above

You must be born from above  Ser­mon preached at Enmore, 2nd. Sunday in Lent, 12th March, 2017 Read­ing: John 3.1–17. John 3.16 is undoubtedly the best known and most often quoted verse in the Bible. Those of us who were sent to Sunday School as chil­dren can almost cer­tainly quote it in full, prob­ably in the old Author­ised Ver­sion. So it is risky attempt­ing to…

Jesus alone

Jesus alone  Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Last Sunday after Epi­phany, Trans­fig­ur­a­tion, 26/2/17 Read­ings: Exodus 24:12–18; 2 Peter 1:16–21; Mat­thew 17:1–9 The trans­fig­ur­a­tion used to be cel­eb­rated on the 6th August‑a date chosen by one of the early Popes but in recent years since the advent of the Revised Com­mon Lec­tion­ary, it has been cel­eb­rated on…

But I say to you

  But I say to you Ser­mon preached at Enmore, Sixth Sunday after Epi­phany, 12th. Feb­ru­ary 2017 Read­ing: Mat­thew 5.21–37 Well, the Ser­mon on the Mount doesn’t get any easi­er. Today’s read­ing from Mat­thew is our third from the Ser­mon on the Mount: Jesus’ key­note address to his dis­ciples and the curi­ous bystand­ers listen­ing in. We began two Sundays…