Prayers of Intercession - The Word of the Lord

 

Lessons of Hearing, Laura Makabresku, 2021

Prayers of Intercession written for the Choral Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 27th October 2022 (Year C, Last after Trinity, Bible Sunday) based on readings from Romans 15.1-6 and Luke 4.16-24

Sermon - The Nazareth Manifesto (Bible Sunday)

Red Alan's Manifesto, Grayson Perry (2014) - Royal Academy

A talk given during the Contemporary Worship service at Holy Sepulchre London on Sunday 23rd October 2022 (Bible Sunday) and Tuesday 25th October 2022 based on Luke 4.16-24. You can watch a recording of the Tuesday lunchtime service at this link. The sermon begins at 27:10 in between sung worship led by the talented Luke Hamlyn.

Choral Classics - The Word of the Lord

It was a great pleasure to introduce Choral Classics at St Stephen Walbrook, live in church on Thursday 28th October 2021 and broadcast online on Monday 1st November 2021. My script is below. You can watch the recording below (the video will not appear in ‘mobile view’ – please click “view web version” at the bottom of the home page if reading on a tablet or phone) or watch on YouTube at this link.

Sermon - Eat My Words

Richard Bruce Nugent, “Jesus and Judas,” 1947 (Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art)

A sermon preached at St George’s Bloomsbury on Bible Sunday, 24th October 2021 based on readings from Isaiah 55:1 -11, 2 Timothy 3:14 to 4:5 and John 5:36b-47

For many years I helped to organise a church fair. It was a traditional affair, with bunting, competitions and dancing around a maypole. At first I was given the task of helping to organise the book stall - probably because after the Boy Scouts I was the youngest person involved and best placed to lug the books out onto the village green! 

Often we would receive donations of large family bibles to sell. Delicate pages of gold leaf bound in embossed leather; treasure held securely in place by a clasp or buckle. Unwanted heirlooms, whose previous owners thought that a beautiful Bible would be snapped up at a church fair.

How wrong they were! 

Year after year we would carry these heavy bible back to the store room in the church hall!