Sermons : seasons and holy days
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Advent
Christmas
Epiphany season
Baptism of the Lord
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Lent before Holy Week
Ash Wednesday
Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter season
Ascension Day
Pentecost season
Day of Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Corpus Christi
All Saints
Christ the King / The Reign of Christ
St Philip and St James
Christmas
Epiphany season
Baptism of the Lord
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Lent before Holy Week
Ash Wednesday
Holy Week
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter season
Ascension Day
Pentecost season
Day of Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Corpus Christi
All Saints
Christ the King / The Reign of Christ
St Philip and St James
Lent before Holy Week
| 26th March 2023 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | The Threat of Resurrection | ||||
| 19th March 2023 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Sight, Insight, and Light | ||||
| 12th March 2023 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Self-justication's barriers | ||||
| 5th March 2023 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Are we Prepared to Travel? | ||||
| 26th February 2023 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Only when we trust can we begin to obey | ||||
| 22nd February 2023 | Ash Wednesday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Where your treasure is, there will your heart be | ||||
| 10th April 2022 | Sixth Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion | ||||
| 3rd April 2022 | Fifth Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | The Sweet Aroma of Gratitude | ||||
| 27th March 2022 | Fourth Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Prodigal Love Meets Shared Delusion 
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| 20th March 2022 | Third Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Suffering and Time | ||||
| 13th March 2022 | Second Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Trust | ||||
| 6th March 2022 | First Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Desert Challenge 2: The New Israel
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| 21st March 2021 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | The Good News of the Cross
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| 14th March 2021 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Courage to await the Cross | ||||
| 7th March 2021 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Marching to a Different Drummer
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| 28th February 2021 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Giving Up and Taking Up
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| 21st February 2021 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Lenten trials | ||||
| 29th March 2020 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | I am the Resurrection and the Life
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| 15th March 2020 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Is the Lord among us or not?
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| 8th March 2020 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Cultivating the Land of Promise | ||||
| 1st March 2020 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Not Failing in the Wilderness
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| 7th April 2019 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Scandalous! | ||||
| 31st March 2019 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Breaking Down the Barriers | ||||
| 24th March 2019 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Faith and Imaginative Vision | ||||
| 17th March 2019 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | The Judgement of our Anxieties | ||||
| 10th March 2019 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Narratives and Trust | ||||
| 6th March 2019 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Lenten Renewal | |||||
| 11th March 2018 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Healing the serpent's bite | ||||
| 4th March 2018 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Good and Bad Religion | ||||
| 25th February 2018 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Living together with quiet confidence in the in-between space | ||||
| 18th February 2018 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Lent and Engagement | ||||
| 14th February 2018 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Sorrowful Rejoicing ... and Scooters | |||||
| 2nd April 2017 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Fifth Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 26th March 2017 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Fourth Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 19th March 2017 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Third Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 12th March 2017 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Second Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 5th March 2017 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | First Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 1st March 2017 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Ash Wednesday 2017 | |||||
| 13th March 2016 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The anointing at Bethany: God's new thing | ||||
| 6th March 2016 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | A Waiting Father | ||||
| 28th February 2016 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | Grief and Hope | ||||
| 21st February 2016 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | Real Change | ||||
| 14th February 2016 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The Testing of Jesus | ||||
| 10th February 2016 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The Freedom of Forgiveness | |||||
| 22nd March 2015 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Some Gays come to Jesus | ||||
| 22nd February 2015 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Jeannette McHugh | Lent | ||||
| 6th April 2014 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Out of the depths … Lenten series on prayer; 5 | ||||
| 30th March 2014 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Shine as a light in the world … Lenten series on prayer; 4 | ||||
| 23rd March 2014 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Get close to Jesus and discover the truth … Lenten series on prayer; 3 | ||||
| 16th March 2014 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | When you pray let go and start from nowhere … Lenten series on prayer; 2 | ||||
| 9th March 2014 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | The first prayer: O Lord have mercy … Lenten series on prayer; 1 | ||||
| 5th March 2014 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Rebecca Newland | Come back to Centre | |||||
| 17 March 2013 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Brian McKinlay | The passionate life | ||||
| 24 February 2013 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Linda Anchell | A darkness | ||||
| 17 February 2013 | First Sunday | Year C | Chris Cheah | Testing and Temptation | ||||
| 25 March 2012 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Linda Anchell | And I, when I am lifted up | ||||
| 18 March 2012 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Catherine Holt | Lent is a journey | ||||
| 11 March 2012 | Third Sunday | Year B | Brian McKinlay | Jesus breaks the barriers | ||||
| 4 March 2012 | Second Sunday | Year B | Chris Cheah | Small bad habits | ||||
| 26 February 2012 | First Sunday | Year B | Perseverance: an introduction to Lent — essay by Kym Harris OSB. | |||||
| 10 April 2011 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Who is Christ for you? | ||||
| 3 April 2011 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Brian McKinlay | Healing and the work of God | ||||
| 27 March 2011 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Go to the well | ||||
| 20 March 2011 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Start from nowhere | ||||
| 13 March 2011 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | A relationship fractured by disobedience | ||||
| 14 March 2010 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | We are entrusted with the ministry of reconciliation | ||||
| 28 February 2010 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | The Cross is the key | ||||
| 21 February 2010 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | This Lent, let's be human | ||||
| 15 March 2009 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | Where anger and courage meet | ||||
| 8 March 2009 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | Losing our life to gain it | ||||
| 1 March 2009 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | The journey of discipleship | ||||
| 2 March 2008 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Chris Cheah | Learning to see | ||||
| 24 February 2008 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Doug Bannerman | The woman at the well | ||||
| 17 February 2008 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Home Groups | ||||
| 10 February 2008 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Temptations | ||||
| 25 March 2007 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Jeannette McHugh | Iona sacred island of pilgrimage | ||||
| 18 March 2007 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | The prodigal son | ||||
| 11 March 2007 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Jesus' mission journey | ||||
| 4 March 2007 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Thorpey | ||||
| 21 February 2007 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Rob Lamerton | Ash Wednesday | |||||
| 2 April 2006 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | The Greeks did not get an answer! | ||||
| 26 March 2006 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | God so loved the world | ||||
| 19 March 2006 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | Jesus cleanses the temple | ||||
| 12 March 2006 | Second Sunday | Year B | Washington Oloo | Farewell address | ||||
| 12 March 2006 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | God gives life against the odds | ||||
| 5 March 2006 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | The Covenant | ||||
| 13 March 2005 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | As good as dead, but alive! | ||||
| 27 February 2005 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Hardness of heart | ||||
| 20 February 2005 | Second Sunday | Year A | Sarah Gowty | Confidence in Christ | ||||
| 13 February 2005 | First Sunday | Year A | Chris Cheah | Desert walking | ||||
| 28 March 2004 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Ken Batterham | Offering ourselves | ||||
| 21 March 2004 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Reconciliation | ||||
| 14 March 2004 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Too much stuff | ||||
| 7 March 2004 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Discover God's light in unusual places |
| 26th March 2023 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | The Threat of Resurrection | ||||
| 19th March 2023 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Sight, Insight, and Light | ||||
| 12th March 2023 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Self-justication's barriers | ||||
| 5th March 2023 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Are we Prepared to Travel? | ||||
| 26th February 2023 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Only when we trust can we begin to obey | ||||
| 22nd February 2023 | Ash Wednesday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Where your treasure is, there will your heart be | ||||
| 10th April 2022 | Sixth Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion | ||||
| 3rd April 2022 | Fifth Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | The Sweet Aroma of Gratitude | ||||
| 27th March 2022 | Fourth Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Prodigal Love Meets Shared Delusion
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| 20th March 2022 | Third Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Suffering and Time | ||||
| 13th March 2022 | Second Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Trust | ||||
| 6th March 2022 | First Sunday 2022 | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Desert Challenge 2: The New Israel
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| 21st March 2021 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | The Good News of the Cross
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| 14th March 2021 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Courage to await the Cross | ||||
| 7th March 2021 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Marching to a Different Drummer
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| 28th February 2021 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Giving Up and Taking Up
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| 21st February 2021 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Lenten trials | ||||
| 29th March 2020 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | I am the Resurrection and the Life
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| 15th March 2020 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Is the Lord among us or not?
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| 8th March 2020 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Cultivating the Land of Promise | ||||
| 1st March 2020 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Not Failing in the Wilderness
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| 7th April 2019 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Scandalous! | ||||
| 31st March 2019 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Breaking Down the Barriers | ||||
| 24th March 2019 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Faith and Imaginative Vision | ||||
| 17th March 2019 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | The Judgement of our Anxieties | ||||
| 10th March 2019 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Martin Johnson | Narratives and Trust | ||||
| 6th March 2019 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Lenten Renewal | |||||
| 11th March 2018 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Healing the serpent's bite | ||||
| 4th March 2018 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Good and Bad Religion | ||||
| 25th February 2018 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Living together with quiet confidence in the in-between space | ||||
| 18th February 2018 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Martin Johnson | Lent and Engagement | ||||
| 14th February 2018 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Sorrowful Rejoicing ... and Scooters | |||||
| 2nd April 2017 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Fifth Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 26th March 2017 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Fourth Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 19th March 2017 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Third Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 12th March 2017 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | Second Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 5th March 2017 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Martin Johnson | First Sunday 2017 | ||||
| 1st March 2017 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Martin Johnson | Ash Wednesday 2017 | |||||
| 13th March 2016 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The anointing at Bethany: God's new thing | ||||
| 6th March 2016 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | A Waiting Father | ||||
| 28th February 2016 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | Grief and Hope | ||||
| 21st February 2016 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | Real Change | ||||
| 14th February 2016 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The Testing of Jesus | ||||
| 10th February 2016 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Dr Colin Dundon | The Freedom of Forgiveness | |||||
| 22nd March 2015 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Canon Prof Scott Cowdell | Some Gays come to Jesus | ||||
| 22nd February 2015 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Jeannette McHugh | Lent | ||||
| 6th April 2014 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Out of the depths … Lenten series on prayer; 5 | ||||
| 30th March 2014 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Shine as a light in the world … Lenten series on prayer; 4 | ||||
| 23rd March 2014 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Get close to Jesus and discover the truth … Lenten series on prayer; 3 | ||||
| 16th March 2014 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | When you pray let go and start from nowhere … Lenten series on prayer; 2 | ||||
| 9th March 2014 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | The first prayer: O Lord have mercy … Lenten series on prayer; 1 | ||||
| 5th March 2014 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Rebecca Newland | Come back to Centre | |||||
| 17 March 2013 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Brian McKinlay | The passionate life | ||||
| 24 February 2013 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Linda Anchell | A darkness | ||||
| 17 February 2013 | First Sunday | Year C | Chris Cheah | Testing and Temptation | ||||
| 25 March 2012 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Linda Anchell | And I, when I am lifted up | ||||
| 18 March 2012 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Catherine Holt | Lent is a journey | ||||
| 11 March 2012 | Third Sunday | Year B | Brian McKinlay | Jesus breaks the barriers | ||||
| 4 March 2012 | Second Sunday | Year B | Chris Cheah | Small bad habits | ||||
| 26 February 2012 | First Sunday | Year B | Perseverance: an introduction to Lent — essay by Kym Harris OSB. | |||||
| 10 April 2011 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Who is Christ for you? | ||||
| 3 April 2011 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Brian McKinlay | Healing and the work of God | ||||
| 27 March 2011 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Go to the well | ||||
| 20 March 2011 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | Start from nowhere | ||||
| 13 March 2011 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rebecca Newland | A relationship fractured by disobedience | ||||
| 14 March 2010 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | We are entrusted with the ministry of reconciliation | ||||
| 28 February 2010 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | The Cross is the key | ||||
| 21 February 2010 | First Sunday | Year C | Revd Rebecca Newland | This Lent, let's be human | ||||
| 15 March 2009 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | Where anger and courage meet | ||||
| 8 March 2009 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | Losing our life to gain it | ||||
| 1 March 2009 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Dr Ray Williamson | The journey of discipleship | ||||
| 2 March 2008 | Fourth Sunday | Year A | Chris Cheah | Learning to see | ||||
| 24 February 2008 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Doug Bannerman | The woman at the well | ||||
| 17 February 2008 | Second Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Home Groups | ||||
| 10 February 2008 | First Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Temptations | ||||
| 25 March 2007 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Revd Jeannette McHugh | Iona sacred island of pilgrimage | ||||
| 18 March 2007 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | The prodigal son | ||||
| 11 March 2007 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Jesus' mission journey | ||||
| 4 March 2007 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Thorpey | ||||
| 21 February 2007 | Ash Wednesday | Revd Rob Lamerton | Ash Wednesday | |||||
| 2 April 2006 | Fifth Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | The Greeks did not get an answer! | ||||
| 26 March 2006 | Fourth Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | God so loved the world | ||||
| 19 March 2006 | Third Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | Jesus cleanses the temple | ||||
| 12 March 2006 | Second Sunday | Year B | Washington Oloo | Farewell address | ||||
| 12 March 2006 | Second Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | God gives life against the odds | ||||
| 5 March 2006 | First Sunday | Year B | Revd Rob Lamerton | The Covenant | ||||
| 13 March 2005 | Fifth Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | As good as dead, but alive! | ||||
| 27 February 2005 | Third Sunday | Year A | Revd Rob Lamerton | Hardness of heart | ||||
| 20 February 2005 | Second Sunday | Year A | Sarah Gowty | Confidence in Christ | ||||
| 13 February 2005 | First Sunday | Year A | Chris Cheah | Desert walking | ||||
| 28 March 2004 | Fifth Sunday | Year C | Ken Batterham | Offering ourselves | ||||
| 21 March 2004 | Fourth Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Reconciliation | ||||
| 14 March 2004 | Third Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Too much stuff | ||||
| 7 March 2004 | Second Sunday | Year C | Revd Rob Lamerton | Discover God's light in unusual places |