Evensong – Michaelmas

Sermon – Michaelmas Evensong. Preached at St Peter and St Paul's, Kettering. Praise the Lord upon earth: ye dragons and all deeps; fire and hail, snow and vapours, wind and storm, fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. In these words from our psalm this evening, all of creation cries …

No Longer Slaves – Sermon, Trinity 14

14th Sunday after Trinity, preached at St Michael and All Angels, and St Peter and St Paul Kettering.   Luke 16: 1-13   Here we go again with the tricky passages from Luke.  I have to admit that this one continues to fox me.  The more I read about the best way to interpret the parable that …

Autoimmunity and the Body of Christ – Sermon, Trinity 9

9th Sunday after Trinity. St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Michael and All Angels, Kettering Luke 12:49-50, Heb 11:29-12:2   Well, I think it must be give the new curate the difficult Gospel passage time…  And what a passage it is, at first glance, hey even at tenth glance, its one that needs wresting with, it’s confusing, even a bit disturbing.  This is …

Attention is the Beginning of Devotion – Sermon, Trinity 6

Passages – Luke 11:1-13, Col. 2:6-15    So, this week, we continue our journey through the Gospel of Luke, which really does feel like a journey, as we discover more and more about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.  You probably remember that over the past few weeks we’ve had some of those stories …