Rev Helen preached this sermon on Sunday 12 January 2025. Here it is for you again: ‘Do not fear, I have redeemed you! I have called you by name. You are mine!’. What a powerful phrase it is one of those that when you hear it sends a chill up your spine. Hearing and feeling … More The Baptism of Christ
Rev Christine preached this sermon on Christmas morning 2024. Here it is for you again: Over the last 4 weeks we have been preparing ourselves for this very day. The day that God Incarnate came to earth as a vulnerable baby, born in a humble manger in Bethlehem. Incarnation is not an easy word for … More Christmas Day 2024
There is something I often think about as we start to approach Christmas and talking about this over the years. The incarnation is quite a hard concept to really understand! When you really drill down into what it means and the implications of it … More Does it matter if we don’t completely understand the incarnation?
What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? It’s an interesting question and one that we do ask a lot because that’s what we all are. We are disciples of Jesus, we are the ones who have received his message that has been passed down for over 2,000 years and are charged with keeping on passing it onto the next generation and the next … More Being a disciple of Jesus
War is an unpleasant thing, I think we can all agree with that. Whatever side of the debate you sit on or your views it’s not something we like or would want for anyone. The destruction, the loss of life both soldiers and civilians, the hate, the bitterness and the lasting memories that come with it … More Remembrance Sunday
Do we think of a full day of reading the Bible and nothing else? Or do we think, what’s the use of the Bible in today’s society? does the younger generation even know what the Bible is? … More Bible Sunday
Seek the Lord and live, if we ask this as a question, “how do we seek the Lord and live?”, most people would say read the Bible more and pray. Both of which are a very good start, but I feel there’s much more to our relationship with God than that. If we really want to seek the Lord we have to look at our lives and the way we live them. Do we do what Jesus would do? an old saying that is still as relevant today as it was when it was first banded about a few years ago or do we tend to try and hide our lives from God as Adam and Eve did, or even some of the Old Testament Prophets … More Hide & Seek with God
Cohen steadfastly avoided giving explanations for his lyrics, instead allowing cover singers and audiences to find their own meaning in the poetry. He did however say that “many different hallelujahs exist”, and that “there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there’s only one thing to say, and it’s hallelujah” … More Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)
Thou whose almighty word, Lord thy word abideth, Glorious things of thee are spoken, just 3 of our hymns today speak about God’s word telling us this is Bible Sunday. Why today you may ask, when we use the Bible every Sunday, but today we give thanks for the Bible. I’d like to begin with the following poem which I came across when preparing my reflection … More Bible Sunday 2021
This sermon was prepared by our ALM Carol on Sunday 19 April 2020. You can read it here … More Easter Sermon – John 20:19-31
St Margaret's Church Prestwich 