Sermons & Articles

Build on a strong foundation  – prepared by the Christian women of Vanuatu On the first Friday of March each year around the world, Christian people come together to pray using resources prepared by women from a particular country. This year in the UK we are not...

Romans 12           The Twelfth Sunday After Trinity                 30 August 2020 Bill commented last week that there had been some discussion on the length of sermons. Ten minutes said someone. Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones was a Welsh Evangelical Minister who ministered...

Matthew 15v21-28                       Jesus and Healing                                 16 August 2020                 At first sight, I find today’s Gospel reading troubling. What is Jesus doing? The Canaanite woman came and pleaded with Jesus to have mercy on her...

Romans 8v26-39               The Seventh Sunday After Trinity                 26 July 2020 Paul wrote in Romans 8v31 ‘What then are we to say about these things?’ What things?  Some of the things that Paul has described in Chapters 5 to 8 that we have been thinking...

Romans 8v12-25             The Sixth Sunday After Trinity                       19 July 2020   This morning’s reading from Paul’s Letter to the Romans, is one on which we could have a series of sermons. Our adoption as Children of God, What does it mean to cry...

Romans 8v1-11               The Fifth Sunday After Trinity                   12th July 2020                                                                        On the Day of Pentecost, 1738 Charles Wesley had his conversion experience. He wrote in his journal ‘that...

Romans 7 v 15-25a                  The Fourth Sunday After Trinity                          5 July 2020 When I think of civil wars I think of the English Civil War in the 17th century between the Parliamentarians (Cavaliers) and the Royalists (Roundheads); or the 19th...

Weekly Pews News no 20-27                                        Fourth Sunday after Trinity 5 July 2020                                      Worship online https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online Chichester Diocese:...

Romans 6 v 12-23              The Third Sunday After Trinity          28th June 2020 Slavery is in the news, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests in Bristol resulting in the toppling of the statue to Edward Colston and the authorities at Bristol Cathedral covered up a...

Romans 6:1b-11                   The Second Sunday After Trinity                    21st June 2020 Our reading today in Romans 6 marks a transition point in Paul’s letter. In Chapters 3-5 Paul has been considering the truth that we are made right with God through our...