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Below is a selection of recent sermons.
They are each about 8-15 Mb, and in MP3 format.
A fuller list (of recent and not so recent sermons) can be found here.
- 17 November 2024 Safeguarding Sunday: Our command to love God and our neighbour – especially the vulnerable (Revd Helen Marshall) (and text version, with notes)
- 10 November 2024 Remembrance Sunday: Blessed are the peacemakers: on the battlefield, in politics – and in our own human relationships (Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 3 November 2024 The Shroud of Death: dealing with the reality,the grief and the suffering – through Jesus Christ, the God of Life (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 27 October 2024 The Bible and the Qur'an: what do the Scriptures do? (Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 20 October 2024 What you ask is not mine to give: James and John haven't got the right idea. (Revd James Morgan)
- 13 October 2024 All-Age Talk for Harvest Festival - is it good to be very rich? True wealth... (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 6 October 2024 "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" Jesus turns the question inside out (Revd David Marshall)
- 29 September 2024 Michaelmas: what are angels? We are humans and no angels, and have some weird ideas! (Revd David Marshall)
- 22 September 2024 Not star players – the disciples Jesus chose were really rather ordinary! (Revd David Marshall)
- 15 September 2024 The tongue - a small organ, the source of a big fire – can it be tamed? (Ven Peter Hooper, Archdeacon of Switzerland)
- 8 September 2024 Caring for Creation – why and how? We should model our 'dominion' on the sacrificial love of Jesus (through whom all things were made!) (Revd Helen Marshall) (and text version with notes)
- 1 September 2024 Creation – where did the World come from, and we human beings?(Revd David Marshall) (and text version with notes)
- 25 August 2024 All-age Talk: How God Feeds Us and why – a supper, a breakfast and a banquet (Revd Helen Marshall) (First Minute Missing!) (and text version with notes)
- 18 August 2024 The Purpose of Humankind – Worship: a Symphony of Praise (Revd James Morgan) (and text version with notes)
- 11 August 2024 Becoming what we eat. Jesus – the true bread of life, living bread from heaven (Revd Helen Marshall) (and text version with notes)
- 4 August 2024 God's presence – the bread of life, but we can't demand a spiritual high all of the time (Canon Maggie Guite)
- 28 July 2024 Providing for the 5000: Filling and opening a spiritual knapsack – knowing every dimension of God's care for us (Canon Maggie Guite)
- 21 July 2024 Good and bad shepherds – deacons and preists, servants and pastors, doing the Good Shepherd's work (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 14 July 2024 Speaking the Truth to Power: John the Baptist – the duty and the cost (Revd David Marshall)
- 7 July 2024 Scorn, rejection, persecution – the rewards of faith (Psalm 123, 2 Corinthians 12:2-10, Mark 6:1-13) (Revd James Morgan)
- 30 June 2024 Fairness, giving, and God's abundant generosity (2 Cor.8:1-15) (Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 23 June 2024 Does God care? Mark 4:35-41 – great storm great calm, great awe, but why did Jesus wait? (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 16 June 2024 Transformation – Two Parables: The Sower, and the Mustard Seed. (Archana Jacob)
- 9 June 2024 All Age Talk: Sharing Jesus' light with the World: Mission. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 2 June 2024 Sunday after Trinity: Psalm 139: the God who knows us inside and out, who leads and guides us. (Revd David Marshall)
- 26 May 2024 Trinity Sunday: the One God whom we worship – and whom the disciples and the early church experienced, encircling us and drawing us in. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 19 May 2024 Pentecost – the coming of God's Comforting Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, the Bond of Relationship. (Revd David Marshall)
- 12 May 2024 All-Age Talk: Water and Life – Baptism of Praise Aduba, cleansing her, uniting her with God's people and creating a new and clean heart within her. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 5 May 2024 Prayers for healing: Jesus brought wholeness and the abundance of life that Isaiah offered to all who seek it. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 28 April 2024 Jesus the True Vine – apart from him we can do nothing. God is love, and acts through all of us individuals as we tell this 'God-is-love' story. (Revd David Marshall)
- 21 April 2024 Jesus the Good Shepherd seeks his sheep out by name and leads them through the darkest times. Let us learn to recognize his voice! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 14 April 2024 All-Age Talk. Third Sunday of Easter: A Surprising Visitor – no ghost, but Jesus himself, the Messiah! (James Morgan) (with visual presentation).
- 31 March 2024 Easter: And did it really happen? The Church itself is the evidence – without the Resurrection there would be no message. (Revd David Marshall)
- 28 March 2024 Maundy Thursday: Why should the Master wash the disciples' feet? The difficulty of receiving. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 24 March 2024 Palm Sunday: We long to shout Hosanna! But we need to appreciate the silent pain of the passion – Jesus has been in this darkness already. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 17 March 2024 Passion Sunday: The wheat seed in the ground – Letting go, living and bearing much fruit. (Revd David Marshall)
- 10 March 2024 All-Age Talk for Lent 4 (Mothering Sunday): Wearing the right clothes – compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, love. (James Morgan) - recording quality variable
- 3 March 2024 Lent 3: Jesus in the Temple – Christian anger is not selfish anger, but anger for righteousness. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 25 February 2024 Lent 2: Taking up our cross and following Jesus – an example from Russia. (Revd David Marshall)
- 18 February 2024 Lent 1: Examining ourselves and knowing ourselves – the opportunities of Lent. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 11 February 2024 Transfiguration: All Age Talk – Happy or sad? The joy of being God's friends and sharing God's joys and each other's – and sorrows. (Revd David Marshall)
- 21 January 2024 Epiphany 3 – Christ revealed in new wine at Cana, and the Great Banquet of the Apocalypse. (Archana Jacob)
- 14 January 2024 Epiphany 2 All Age Talk – Samuel in the Temple, Nathanael under the Fig Tree – God knows us. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 7 January 2024 Epiphany – Christ revealed to the Gentiles, as the psalms and prophets foretold. Creating a Jewish-Gentile fellowship. (Revd David Marshall)
- 31 December 2023 Sons through adoption, Paul tells the Galatians, and so fellow children of our father, and brothers and sisters together. (James Morgan)
- 25 December 2023 Christmas talk – Presents. God's special presents are more valuable than just chocolates. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 24 December 2023 (First Eucharist of Christmas) The power of words – but God's Word became flesh: not just crude matter, but a living person. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 24 December 2023 (Advent 4) Mary's yes to God's unlimited power – a Christian's response to a Muslim perspective. (Revd David Marshall)
- 17 December 2023 Joining the celebration, facing the reality. God in real life, for all of us. Talk at the Nativity Play. (Revd David Marshall)
- 10 December 2023 Advent 2: Baptism – repentance: taking a new direction, with others, along the Lord's Way (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 3 December 2023 Advent Sunday: Waiting and longing for more – Christ, the past and the future (Revd David Marshall)
- 26 November 2023 Christ the King – the servant king who reigns from the tree (Revd David Marshall, read for him in absentia by James Morgan)
- 19 November 2023 All Age Talk: The Talents – fairness means using what we have been given (Archana Jacob)
- 12 November 2023 Remembrance Sunday: Micah calls us to beat our swords into ploughshares – Jesus calls us even to love our enemies (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 5 November 2023 Who are the saints? God's holy people – ordinary mortals are saints too! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 29 October 2023 Leviticus 19:15-18: Loving our neighbour – puting agape before politics (Revd Professor Douglas Pratt)
- 22 October 2023 1 Thess.1:1-10: Being imitators – The Holy Spirit at work in Thessalonica (Revd Elizabeth Bussmann)
- 15 October 2023 Guests at the Great Wedding Banquet – how God's people should behave (Revd David Marshall)
- 8 October 2023 Harvest Festival: The Parable of the Rich Fool: All-Age Talk (Revd Helen Marshall) – And details of our Junior Church's TearFund project for the Diocese of Kigezi in Uganda.
- 1 October 2023 "You have made us for yourself, O God, an our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you" – St Augustine of Hippo (Revd David Marshall)
- 24 September 2023 "It's not fair!" Jonah, the labourers in the vineyard, and God's amazing grace! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 17 September 2023 Forgiving and being forgiven – seeing the bigger picture. (Revd Helen Marshall) (and text version)
- 10 September 2023 Confirmation – to a decreasing or to an increasing faith? Seekers, believers and dwellers. (Rt Revd Robert Innes, Bishop in Europe) (and text version)
- 3 September 2023 All Age Talk: God's creative Word: the source of everything we can see – and can't see (but we know it's there!) (Archana Jacob)
- 27 August 2023 Who do you say I am? Ways of meeting Jesus, and of being transformed – Peter, Paul, each of us (Revd Claire Finlay)
- 20 August 2023 Joseph and his brothers – what can we Christians make of the story in Genesis? (Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 13 August 2023 Baptism – believing and belonging: the start of a journey in good company. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 6 August 2023 Responding to generosity – God's free gifts: the Old and the New Covenant. (James Morgan) (with visual presentation).
- 30 July 2023 All things work for good – in God's family. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 23 July 2023 St Mary Magdalene: Her story is our story - that's why we remember the saints. (Revd David Marshall)
- 9 July 2023 The Easy Burden: Don't despair, don't be grumpy, give your worries to Jesus! (Revd David Williams)
- 2 July 2023 Romans 6: Freed from slavery to sin: to become servants to righteousness – perfect freedom! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 25 June 2023 God's grace is so abundant we don't need to test it: we share in it through our baptism. (Revd David Marshall)
- 18 June 2023 Taking in and giving out – it should be as natural and as easy as breathing. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 11 June 2023 What's in a name? Barnabas – we should all be "children of encouragement". (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 4 June 2023 Trinity – God as threefold Love: Creator, Redeemer, Source of Fellowship. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 28 May 2023 Pentecost – Streams of living water, for us to overflow with rivers of the Spirit.... (Revd David Marshall)
- 21 May 2023 New confidence: Waiting patiently for the Spirit – How did the Apostles cope with the ascended Jesus' departure? (Archana Jacob)
- 18 May 2023 Who will do Jesus' work after the Ascension? He has no body now but ours (Revd David Marshall)
- 14 May 2023 Sixth Sunday of Easter: All Age Talk: God's Special Promises – the Rainbow, and the Bread and the Wine (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 7 May 2023 Fifth Sunday of Easter: Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life: a pattern for all of us (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 30 April 2023 Fourth Sunday of Easter: The True Shepherd – knows the sheep and the sheep know their Shepherd (Revd David Marshall)
- 23 April 2023 The Road to Emmaus – a prophet like Moses? Meeting God in Jesus. (James Morgan)
- 16 April 2023 Low Sunday with Thomas: Joy, peace and new life to all the church – together! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 9 April 2023 Easter Sunday All-Age Talk: The Whole Story: Christ's death and resurrection give us new life! (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 2 April 2023 Palm Sunday: Who is this man? God's promised saviour and king (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 26 March 2023 Passion Sunday: Lazarus' dry bones and the church's promise of new and eternal life in the risen Jesus (Archana Jacob, for Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 19 March 2023 All Age Talk for Mothering Sunday: A Mother's Love – fiercely protective, as we must love our neighbours (James Morgan)
- 12 March 2023 Lent 3: Psalm 95: Worship God and Listen to God – God's hands and our hearts (Revd David Marshall)
- 5 March 2023 Lent 2: A Meeting with Nicodemus – God's gift of new life in the Spirit, and our need to grow in it (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 26 February 2023 Lent I: Avoiding Temptation – Satan's is not powerful, just a good liar! (Revd Elizabeth Bussmann)
- 22 February 2023 Ash Wednesday: Striving for Holiness and Sorrow for Sin – even towards unseen neighbours. (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 19 February 2023 Transfiguration – a mountain-top experience. Seeing the true Jesus: "Listen to him!" (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 12 February 2023 All-Age Talk for Mission Sunday – who we give to and why we give: the Five Marks of Mission (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 5 February 2023 The Wisdom of God in the Cross of Christ for those who love God (Revd Helen Marshall) (and text version)
- 29 January 2023 The Corinthians and the Cross: Weakness? Foolishness? Wisdom!! (Revd David Marshall) (and text version)
- 15 January 2023 The Church in Corinth – holy and loved, even though flawed (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 8 January 2023 The journey of the Wise Men – seen through their eyes (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 1 January 2023 Christmas: awesome news for the shepherds – why were they so afraid? (James Morgan)
- 25 December 2022 Christmas: a grubby baby, a problem family – Jesus was special because he was not special (Revd Helen Marshall)
- 24 December 2022 Christmas: How to get God's Word to us – not as a book but as a person (Revd David Marshall)
There is a fuller list including less recent sermons here.