Sermons And Gubbins

This sermon was first preached at our Sunday morning service on 23rd September 2018. The Gospel that morning was Mark 9:30-37 , and the Old Testament reading was from Proverbs - 31:10-31 . So… I thought this morning, I’d look at our reading from Proverbs , and preach about how to be a great wife. But, then I remembered that I quite like living in my house, and so I decided that it would probably be a good idea to pass on the exciting opportunity to preach on such a reading as that. I hope you’ll agree with me that that was a good decision. And even if you don’t, well… you’re not the one who has to live with the consequences. But actually, we all want to be great, don’t we? A great wife, a great husband, a great parent? A great friend, a great employee or employer? A great sportsperson, or cook, or artist or writer? We want to be great at what we do, and for people to acknowledge that. We don’t all want to be great at everything (well, some of us do), but… for what’s ...

This sermon was preached at our Evensong service on Sunday 16th September. The New Testament reading that day was  Matthew 7:1-14 . We’ve had some interesting juxtaposition in our readings tonight; our  Old Testament reading  which we heard first, covered how Moses set up Israel’s system of Judges, and, then we heard our  New Testament reading , which starts off with Jesus saying “Judge not, so that you may not be judged.” Now, I preached on Moses at Evensong  only the other week , so I don’t propose to preach a sermon on him again so soon. And it was only as recent as last Sunday morning that Rev’d Cath gave us an excellent sermon on judgement based on the readings for that day, so I also don’t propose to re-tread the ground that Cath has already trod – if you want to hear that sermon and you haven’t done so, do get hold of Cath and ask her to share it with you; it was very good! Instead, then, I’d like to continue the theme of prayer I took ...