Thought for the Day-A Grace Exchange?

The Corn Exchange, Mark Lane (published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1808)

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime Harvest Festival at St Olave Hart Street based on the text of 2 Corinthians 9.6-11.

Sermon-Unto thee shall all flesh come

A sermon given at Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 6th October 2024 inspired by the life and writings of abolitionist and radical Robert Wedderburn one of the ‘St Giles Blackbirds’ and readings from Deuteronomy 26.1-11 and John 6.26-35. This sermon was given on Harvest Sunday and during Black History Month.

Sermon-The Way to the heart is through the stomach?

Anxiety by Edvard Munch, 1894

A sermon given at the Harvest Festival at St Barnabas Pimlico on Sunday 29th September 2024 and at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 6th October 2024 based on readings from 1 Timothy 6.6-10 and Matthew 6.25-33. At St Giles-in-the-Fields the sermon was preached following the baptism of James Roberts and took place in the week leading up to World Mental Health Day. 

This Harvest Festival Day the scriptures are packed with food for thought about how each of us might best grow by nurturing our "felt sense" - engaging both our rational brains and our 'gut' feelings....

Further Prayers for Choral Evensong on Sunday 1st October 2023

The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne by William Blake

Further Prayers written for Choral Evensong at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Sunday 1st October 2023 (The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity) kept as Harvest Sunday based on text from Isaiah 6.1-7 and Revelation 4.1-11 and the anthem ‘Thou Visitest the Earth’ by Maurice Greene, based on verses from Psalm 65.

Prayers of Intercession - God of the Margins

Ruth Gleaning. Study for the Painting 'The Gleaner', Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1844 – Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Prayers written for the Business Harvest Festival at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 5th October 2022, based on the theme of ‘margins’ inspired by the message of Stephen’s excellent sermon, inspired by the Jewish practice of leaving the edge of the fields unharvested to make the grain available for the poor to glean (Deuteronomy 24.19).

 

God of the margins,

We pray for the church throughout the world; for all who use their gifts to glorify your name.

Strengthen those who practice their faith where the margin of safety is slim.

Guide your church to become a marginal habitat; a dynamic place of nurture, transition and change, 

  where we are each able to grow in your likeness;

offering space for reflection; a margin on the story of our lives. 

We welcome into your fellowship the recently baptised, including Leonora, and all those beginning a new chapter in their life of faith.

 

Lord in your mercy

Hear our prayer 

Sermon - The labourers are few - but the harvest is plentiful!

Harvest Threshing, Albert Gleizes, 1912

A sermon preached during the Choral Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 3rd July 2022 (Third Sunday after Trinity, Year C) based on the reading from Luke 10.1-11, 16-20.

Prayers of Intercession – Business Harvest Festival

The Sunshine Roof, Cyril Power 1934

Prayers written for the Business Harvest Festival at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 7th October 2021

Prayers of Intercession - Christ has no hands now but yours

Study of the Hands of an Apostle, Albrecht Dürer 1508

Prayers written for the Business Harvest Festival at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 15th October 2020 which is also the Feast of St Teresa of Avila. The prayers are based on a famous prayer by St Teresa ‘Christ has body but yours’, as well as the readings for the service; Deuteronomy 8.7-18 and Luke 12.16-30.