SERMON: The tree of shame was made the tree of glory; and where life was lost, there life has been restored
A sermon preached at St Mary’s Iffley by Andrew McKearney on 11 March 2018 I’ve grown to appreciate processional crosses! That’s a very clerical opening remark to a sermon, but it’s true! We don’t use a processional cross at the evening service here, but at the main morning service we do. And as […]
SERMON: The Decalogue – relevant or not?
A sermon preached at St.Mary’s Iffley by Anthony Phillips on 4 March 2018 I remain constantly surprised at the number of people who express a keen devotion to the ten commandments and think that the lack of knowledge of these provisions accounts for our national decline in morality. But why should a series of rules […]
SERMON: It won’t be long before we can shout our Easter ‘Alleluia!’
A sermon preached at St Mary’s Iffley by Andrew McKearney on 25 February 2018 Last week, we began Lent with hearing of Jesus’ baptism and his time immediately afterwards tempted by Satan in the wilderness. Mark begins his gospel with these hugely significant stories not just because they happen at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, […]
SERMON FOR EVENSONG
SERMON FOR EVENSONG at St Mary’s 4.2.18 As we look at the astonishing words at the beginning of John’s gospel, we need to grasp the fact that in the first decades of the Christian church was confronted with a very basic problem. Christianity began in Judaism. Ali its original members were Jews, as Jesus was, […]
SERMON: ‘We are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love.’
A sermon preached at St Mary’s Iffley by Andrew McKearney on 4 February 2018 We’ve heard Saint John unfold the mystery of the incarnation, beginning with those words that we last heard at Christmas: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ Each of the four […]
SERMON: Learning to open our eyes to the Grace and Love of God
A sermon preached by David Barton on the Third Sunday of Epiphany. Readings: Revelations 19, 6-10. John 2, 1-11 A wedding! We all know about weddings. We’ve either been to them or been married. So we can all, as it were walk into this gospel passage, picture it all, see the shy young bride and […]