SERMON: The Epiphany Story
A sermon preached at St.Mary’s, Iffley by Anthony Phillips on 7 January 2018 You will have heard me criticise those who devised our lectionary before and no doubt will again. Why to-day have they given you half the narrative but chosen to omit the most important half? Presumably they think that you can only stand […]
SERMON: Finding Hope in a Troubled World
A sermon preached by David Barton in St Mary’s Iffley on the Third Sunday of Advent 2017. Readings: Isaiah 61:1-4,8-end. I Thessalonians 5:16-24 I was deeply touched this past week – as perhaps you were – by the story of the baby who was born with a heart outside her body. It was discovered during […]
SERMON: “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord.” – Psalm 19:14
Advent 1 Mark 13:24-37 This chapter of Mark contains two interwoven themes – One thread warns Christians to prepare for an imminent apocalypse. And the other offers counsel of another sort: believers need to stand firm, stay faithful, and prepare for the long haul. The chronology runs through unprecedented suffering, to total darkness — the […]
QUIET MINDS – QUIET HEARTS
SERMON: A world of peace needs to be willed, and actively built
A sermon for Remembrance Day preached by David Barton at St Mary’s Church Iffley on 12th November 2017 It is an extraordinary thing when you think of it. 99 years after Armistice Day, and 72 years after the end of the last war in Europe, and still across these Islands today people gather in Churches […]
SERMON: “Unseen yet Always Present”
A Sermon Preached by Graham Low at The Service for the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed on 5 November Some of us, myself included, have met death quite a lot. We feel in a way as if we know death. We feel we know something of the look and sound of death. We have met […]