Sermon-Lord, it is good for us to be here!

St Olave Hart Street in 1941 prior to restoration

A sermon given during a service of Holy Communion at St Olave Hart Street, City of London on Sunday 15th February 2026 (Year A, Sunday next before Lent or Quinquagesima, based on the text of Matthew 17.1-9.

Thought for the Day-Doorway to the Sublime

Rene Magritte – The Improvement, 1962

A Thought for the Day given at a lunchtime service of Holy Communion at St Giles-in-the-Fields on Wednesday 6th August 2025 - The Feast of the Transfiguration based on the text of Luke 9.28-36 

Sermon - Standing at the Threshold

Woman Standing in a Doorway, Edvard Munch, 1906

Sermon preached at the Sung Eucharist at St George’s Bloomsbury on Sunday 19th February 2023 (Year A, Next before Lent) based on readings from Exodus 24.12-end, 2 Peter 1.16-end and Matthew 17.1-9-end.

You can watch a recording of the sermon (cropped and clipped from the church private facebook group) below:

Prayers of Intercession - Transform Us

Transfiguration bleue outremer by Macha Chmakoff. 

Prayers of Intercession written for the Sung Eucharist at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 3rd March 2022 (Quinquagesima, Year C) based on the text of Luke 9.28-43a.

God of grace,
who lifts us up to see the truth of our past and glimpse the glory of our future,
transform this, your Church.
Help us to listen to your living Word 
and follow His ways,
growing in faith by the light of others and, enflamed by your Spirit, reflecting your brightness in all we think, say and do.

Thank God for Mountains

Christ in the Desert by Nicholas Roerich, 1933

A poem inspired by Matthew 17:1-9, the Gospel reading at St Stephen Walbrook on Thursday 27th February:

When our only perspective is face value,

let us consider the contours and textures of our own;

   an image of creation. 

Fear is a faceless world without features;

Stretched so thin it lacks depth. 

Transparency an unintended by-product of extreme tension;

    our face shining because it’s skin tight. 

Glory is the shining face on top of the rugged mountain;

A white light; full of every colour.

Let us all thank God for mountains; 

even those of us not yet invited to the top.

Start:Stop-The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration - Sieger Koder

Good morning and welcome to Start Stop. Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration when we remember that moment when Peter, James and John are called up to the top of a mountain where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory. Today we will read the account in Mark's Gospel: