All seeing God who seeks us out, we pray for your church which still denigrates and dismisses both individuals and whole groups of people. Forgive our closed minds our failure to see others as your beloved children. Help us learn to see with eyes of love. We pray for your world, torn in so…Continue reading Intercessions for Epiphany 2 year B
Sermon for Epiphany 2 year B
Today’s Gospel reading follows the Epiphany theme of ‘seeing’, ‘finding’ and ‘perceiving’. All these words can have quite mundane meanings: ‘I saw Fred on the bus today’: I found a pound coin on the pavement’: ‘I couldn’t quite perceive who it was because it was foggy.’ But all these words can have heightened meanings ‘Aha!…Continue reading Sermon for Epiphany 2 year B
Sermon: Baptism of Christ 2021
Today we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Christ. For us, in the church of the western world, I think it would be fair to say that this feast day has become a bit of a half hearted affair – not as cosy as Christmas and not as exotic as Epiphany. Not as picturesque…Continue reading Sermon: Baptism of Christ 2021
Intercessions: Baptism of Christ 2021
God of love, today we celebrate your delight and love for Jesus, your Son. We pray that your church will show your love in all the world: help us not to drive away, but to welcome not to not condemn but to celebrate, not to fall into smallness of heart, but to speak of the…Continue reading Intercessions: Baptism of Christ 2021
Epiphany Sermon 2020
These past few days, all over the world, Christians will be celebrating the Feast of Epiphany and will hear this passage from Matthew’s Gospel–the story of wise men from the East travelling from far away to kneel before the Christ Child. In the Orthodox faith, this festival is of equal importance with Christmas and Easter…Continue reading Epiphany Sermon 2020
Epiphany Intercessions
With the Magi, we seek God’s glory; those moments when we are shown that God is here with us. God who made us all, each wonderfully different, we pray for followers of different faiths across the world Give us grace to learn from each other. Lead all who seek you in the ways of humility…Continue reading Epiphany Intercessions
All Age Worship – The Fox and he Hen
It was fantastic to have our Brownies and Guides with us for our worship this morning. Today’s reading from St. Lukes’ Gospel was about Herod whom Jesus described as ‘that Fox’ and about God sheltering us under her wings like a hen with her chicks. We brought to God the times when we had hurt…Continue reading All Age Worship – The Fox and he Hen
Picture Sermon – Baptism of Christ
BAPTISM OF CHRIST John the Baptist – although a bit weird – is one of us. Sand and gold. Jesus – God in human form. Have made him of brown paper too – but he just needed loads of glitter because people did see his glory. The blue glitter is the water of the Jordan…Continue reading Picture Sermon – Baptism of Christ
Picture Sermons
For a few years, some time ago, I presented many of my sermons in picture form. These were not great works of art, but rather rough and ready pictures made as I resopondeed to the text (almost always the Gospel). This enabled me to preach with just notes rather than a fully written sermon, and…Continue reading Picture Sermons
All Age Goody Bags
I developed this idea last year and now some of my friends are using it too. It works well because it grabs people’s interest as soon as they come into church. It’s up to you whether you let people look straight away or make them wait! At our All age Services, everyone is given a goody…Continue reading All Age Goody Bags