Great Fire Anniversary Sermon-Stirring Up Old Coals

The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666.

A sermon given at St Olave Hart Street on Sunday 6th September 2026 during a service of Holy Communion on Great Fire Anniversary Weekend. The service took place the day after our Faith & Fire Discovery Day, exploring the Great Fire through the lens of science and faith. The sermon is based on readings from Romans 13.8–end, Matthew 18.15–20 and the words of an Great Fire Anniversary Sermon preached at St Olave Hart Street on 2nd September 1682 by Reverend William Wray, the text of which can be read at this link. 

Thought for the Day-When two or three are gathered

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles by John C. Johansen (1876–1964), Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 13th August 2025 based on the text of Matthew 18.15-20.

Sermon-First be Reconciled

 ‘The Reconciliation’ (1989) by Josefina de Vasconcellos at Coventry Cathedral

A sermon given during Holy Communion (BCP) at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 27th July 2025, the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, based on the text of Romans 6.3-11 and Matthew 5.20-26.

Sermon - Christ is made the sure foundation

Sermon given at Choral Evensong at St Stephen’s Church, Rochester Row on Sunday 9th October based on readings from Nehemiah 6.1-16 and John 15.12-end.

Prayers of Intercession - Trinity 14

The Forgiving Father by Frank Wesley (1923-2002)

Prayers of intercession for the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook at 12.45pm on Thursday 17th September 2020 (Trinity 14/Proper 19) based on the Epistle (Romans 14.1-12) and the Gospel Reading from Matthew 18.21-35 with words taken from the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation and the writings of Martin Luther King.

Let us pray for forgiveness in the church and the world; that we may be kind to one another and tender hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ has forgiven us.