Sermons (mostly based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Church of England)
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(All preached within Diocese of Birmingham, mostly at St Mark's., Londonderry)
Advent
1, Year A (Coming)
Advent 2, Year B (Practicing the presence of God)
Advent 3, Year A (Optimistically prepared by God to be surprised)
Advent 4, Year C (In
Christ God opens up for all his way of mercy,
righteousness, justice and peace.
Christmas Day, Set III, Year B (I
Christmas 1, Year B (Cof E Gospel) (Incarnating God's love in everything
that we do)
Presentation of Christ in the Temple (The Holy Family and our support for
families)
Third Sunday before Lent, Year A (The wise/powerful/well-born pattern and
Jesus' and our humanity)
Third Sunday before Lent, Year B (The right kind of faith)
Second Sunday
before Lent, Year C (Sonship. image, and the wise-powerful-wellborn
humanity)
Sunday next before Lent, Year B (Baptized in order
to show forth God's glory in serving others.)
Sunday next before Lent, Year C (Transformed from glory to glory as we die
to ourselves daily)
Ash Wednesday (Freed in Christ to be
failures)
Lent
2, Year B (Faith includes both trusting obedience and acknowledging Jesus as the
Way by following him)
Lent 3, Year B (Freed by God's love to love our neighbour)
Lent 3, Year C (1 Cor 10.1-13 and the four sons)
Lent 4, Year C (Luke 15 and joyfully welcoming the 'outcast')
Maundy Thursday (The sacraments free us to love and serve)
Easter 2, Year C (Shift to 'Trinity'; Jesus has no merit)
Easter 4, Year A (My vocation [and how I came to it] and
yours)
Easter 6, Year B (Luke-Acts (1)
keeps everyone onboard, (2) deflates the rigid, and (3) thus
invites us entertain new ways.)
Easter 7, Year C ('Going' in love and 'abiding' in love)
Pentecost (Luke, the Missioner,
shifts the giving of the Spirit from Easter to Pentecost)
Pentecost (Luke, the conservative and revolutionary
'inverter' who upsets apple carts)
Proper
6, Year A, Track 2 (We come to church to be free)
Proper 6,
Year C, Track 1 (We are freed from within to be walking-wounded, showing
forth God)
Proper 9, Year C, Track 2 (What kind of 'miracle' de we think accords with
the Gospel in the twenty-first century?)
Proper 10, Year C, Track 1(God fits his chosen; human beings
are rationalizers, not rational: we need godly disquiet.)
Proper 11, Year B, Track 1 (We gather to be St
Mark's, the temple made without hands.)
Proper 13, Year A, Track 2 (Feeding 5,000-cosy Jewish feeding; Feeding
4,000-pushes boundaries outwards)
Proper 13, Year A, Track 2 - Mark II (Ditto)
Proper 13, Year A,
Track 2 - Mark III (Ditto)
Proper 14, Year B, Track
1 (In word and sacrament we
feed on Christ in order that we may show forth Christ.)
Proper 14, Year C, Track 1 (Persevering trust: Hebrews' meaning
of 'faith' is part of our calling.)|\\
Proper 17, Year B, Track
1 (The
rich Pauline understanding of faith as trust in God who has acted for us in
Christ)
Proper 20, Year C, Track 1 (Jeremiah as a prophet of doom and hope, gearing
us to action)
Proper 21, Year B, Track 1 (How open are we to those who differ from us?)
Proper 23, Year C, Track 1 (St Mark's without a building would be
where two or three were gathered together 'in my name'.)
Proper 24. Year A, Track 1 (Image as a sign of
ownership and sovereignty; we are to be conformed to Christ's image to God's glory.)
Proper 25, Year A, Track 2 (The four-sons pattern in Matthew's
narrative and Jesus' call for radical obedience.)
Proper 28, Year A, Track 2
('Wrath', 'kindness'; growing in love by loving)
Proper 28,,
Year B, Track 2 (The
life of love in Christ is the means and the goal of sharing the Good News.)
Christ
the King, Year C (This is God's good world, so let us love and live
by the Spirit in Christ our King to the glory of the Father
All Saints Sunday, Year A
(Saints are sinners who nevertheless authentically show forth Christ)
All Saints
Sunday, Year B (All Saints celebrates, with all other
Christians, our own calling to be saints)
Conversion of
St Paul, 25 Jan. (Paul's vision of God's love in Jesus
turned him from being exclusive of others to being inclusive of all.)
Presentation
of Christ in the Temple, 2 Feb.
St Mark
, 25 April (Go in the way of the Cross or you will not know the Lord)
SS Philip and James, Apostles, 1 May (QCB; Recognize our parallels to
Philip: faith, evangelical zeal, but continued need to grow)
Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June (We look at saints and say
they're wonderful; they look at God and claim nothing for themselves.)
St James the Apostle, 25 July (The good news is that all the saints, including
James, like us, are walking-wounded who walk by grace.)
St Matthew, 29 Sept. (Matthew witnesses to Jesus' and
our humanity in terms of the wise-powerful-wellborn model.)
St Luke, 18 Oct. (Queen's College, Birmingham) (In
our diversity of witness and understanding we are complementary to each other.)
St Luke ('Teaching' sermon, St Mark's) (Luke is concerned with
out-going and on-going mission to everyone.)
St Thomas, 21 Dec. (Do doubt, but trust God's love, break
the Bread of the Lord, and love and serve the neighbour)
The Queen's College, Birmingham
Preaching Service,
7/3/78 (We
are all walking wounded)
Preaching
Service, 17/3/81 (Get lost -here and now: ministerial formation calls for losing old
securities)
QCB Friday Eucharist,
20/1/84
Leavers Sermon, 14/6/84 (Drop dead - Get Lost - Stand there)
Founder's Day Address, Alleyne's Grammar School, Uttoxeter, 1968