Sermon - The Lord doth magnify my soul

Piety Choi, A Mustard Seed, 2015

A talk given during the Contemporary Worship service at Holy Sepulchre London on Sunday 2nd October 2022 (Year C, Proper 22) and Tuesday 4th October 2022 based on 2 Timothy 1.1-14 and Luke 17.5-10. My script is below. An shorter version of this sermon was preached at Choral Evensong on Wednesday 5th October 2022.

Sermon - Every seed will flourish

 

Imre Szakács, Mustard Seed, 2009 

Sermon preached during the Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook at 12.45pm on Thursday 17th June 2021 based on the text of Mark 4.26-34 and 2 Corinthians 5.6-10, 14-17

Good News in 100 words
The kingdom Jesus proclaims is described in two consecutive parables as being like a seed. The kingdom is a place where every seed flourishes. We often think that our growth and development – and that of others – is contingent on human agency; our efforts. The good news is that God has provided all we need to flourish. We can celebrate this by working to break down the barriers we have put in the way of doing so.

Start:Stop – Revisiting the legacy of Augustine of Canterbury

Hello and welcome to our Start:Stop reflection from St Stephen Walbrook, my name is Phillip Dawson.

This week we remember a man who set out from a deserted city on a dangerous journey north. No, not Dominic Cummings and his much dissected trip to Durham – but St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, who, with his mobile monastery of forty lay and ordained men, journeyed one thousand miles by sea, river and land from Rome and, on their second attempt, arrived in Canterbury, where they built a cathedral, a school and hospital and baptised thousands of new Christians; sowing the seeds of faith that would grow to become the Church of England.