Category: Sermons

Church, Differently

What follows is a short video reflection produced during the 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown for St Andrew’s Methodist Church and Southwater Community Church, both in Horsham, West Sussex. Scroll to the bottom for an audio recording. How are you coping? These are very strange times we’re living in. I’m sure that we all have our own …

Remembrance: Hope in Death

What follows is the text of a sermon I preached on Remembrance Sunday, 13th November 2011, at Leatherhead Methodist Church in Surrey. It is based on Isaiah 53, Mark 16:1-8 and Romans 6:1-10. Today we think about those who have given their lives fighting for our country.  It is estimated that during the twentieth century, …

Compassion: Are you the answer to your own prayer?

30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” 32 So they went away by themselves in a …

Just Love: The Love Revolution

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This …