Easter Folly
Easter Sermon by Kenneth Padley Acts 10.34-43; I Corinthians 15.1-11; Mark 16.1-8 I want to say a huge welcome to this most jolly of feasts: Happy April Fools’ Day! Doubtless you will have seen spaghetti growing on the trees
What is Jesus overthrowing today?
Sermon for Palm Sunday by Kenneth Padley Matthew 21.12-17 Overturning the tables Loads of churches go on procession on Palm Sunday. Many churches have a donkey on Palm Sunday. Not many churches can recreate the route which Jesus took
Sermon: Covenants
Sermon by Kenneth Padley Lent 3 2018 Exodus 20.1-17; John 3.14-21 Christians don’t always help ourselves with some of our complicated, technical words. The week before last, a friend of mine was teaching a lesson to a class of
Sermon: the faith of Abraham
Sermon by Liz Warren 25th February 2018 Genesis 12.1-9; Hebrews 11.1-16 May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen First of all I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for
Sermon: the wedding at Cana
Revd John Hayton Epiphany 4 Yr B. 28th January 2018. [Gn14: 17-20]. Rev 19: 6-10. Jn 2: 1-11 The wedding at Cana, understandably, takes pride of place in Anglican and I guess other Christian wedding liturgies. But to see it
Jesus’ strapline: The Kingdom of God
Sermon for the Second Sunday after Epiphany 2018.1.21 Jonah 3.1-5,10; I Corinthians 7.29-31; Mark 1.14-20 Kenneth Padley The best adverts have the most memorable straplines. There are dozens of these phrases that immediately call to mind a product
Sermon: Dreaming of a white Christmas? Think again!
Sermon for Advent IV; 2017.12.24; Kenneth Padley Are you dreaming of a White Christmas? Two Sundays ago those who battled through the blizzard conditions arrived at church in a winter idyll, the snow as deep and crisp and even
Sermon: ‘Mark’ and his ‘gospel’
For those snowed in, here’s this morning’s effort! Mark 1.1-8 10th December 2017 Mark’s ‘gospel’ Kenneth Padley Nineteen hundred and fifty years ago a writer sat down to write. We don’t know where the writer was writing. We
Sermon: what are angels? – and what they are not!
Revelation 12.7-12; Hebrews 1.5-14; John 1.47-51 Patronal Festival 1st October 2017 Kenneth Padley About fifteen months ago I noticed a significant increase in the number of people walking through St Michael’s churchyard. What was this new phenomenon? Was it
Sermon: does religion make us better people?!
Ezekiel 33.7-11; Psalm 119.33-40; Romans 13.8-14; Matthew 18.15-20 17th September 2017 Kenneth Padley Does religion make us better people? There are many in society who doubt or dispute this claim. And yet this morning’s readings all presume it, firmly