Advent 2: 8 December 2019 Isaiah 11.1-10; Romans 15.4-13; Matthew 3.1-12 When was the last time you got really excited about a promise someone had made to you? This is, after all, a time of year when people − especially young people − get excited about promises: mostly promises about what they’ll find under the […]
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The four weeks of Advent are a curious time in so many ways. As we perform the Church’s ritual of awaiting the birth, a birth that happened some 2020 years ago or so, we live in a world of Carol services and Christmas lights and acquisitive shopping entirely at variance with what is supposed to […]
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Revd Jeremy Fletcher Ask the animals and they will teach you Job 12. 7 -13 Luke 12. 16 – 32 ASWA at St James Piccadilly, 6.10.19 I am here because of a donkey. There’s much more to it than that, of course, but the donkey was pivotal. Cathedral Precentors get to help shape all sorts […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 144; Nehemiah 6:1-16; John 15:12 -27. ‘If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you’. [John 15:19]. +In the name of the Father and of the […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 121; Isaiah 43:14-44:5; John 5:30-47. I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert…. [Isaiah 43:19-20]. +In the name of the Father and of […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 107: 1-16; Genesis 50:4-26; Mark 6:45-52. But Joseph said to them, ‘Fear not, for am I in the place of God? [Genesis 50:19]. …they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, ‘Take heart, it is I; have no fear’. [Mark 6:50] +In the […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Acts 5: 27-32; Psalm 150, 14-24; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you’, [John 20:21]. +In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. You do […]
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Revd. Professor Martin Henig Psalm 35; 2 Chronicles 35:1-6, 10-16; Luke 22:1-13. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover [Luke 22:1] +In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is the beginning of Passiontide, a season at which we begin […]
read full sermon“The Wisdom of Creation” Job 12.7−10; Mark 1.9−13 A sermon preached at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies on 13 Mar 2019 As I’m sure you all know, we are now in the season of Lent, when many church denominations prepare, through fasting, prayer and acts of service, for the celebration of Easter. For individual […]
read full sermonRevd. Professor Martin Henig Genesis 2:4-9, 15-25; Psalm 65; Revelation 4; Luke 8:22-25. They were afraid and amazed, and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water and they obey him? [Luke 8:25] +In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the […]
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