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Hinde Street sermons
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 |  Sermon 7 March - Sue Keegan von Allmen (341KB) 14/03/2010, "On the 12th October 1843, The Times ran an editorial lamenting the bitter paradox that 'within the most courtly precincts of the richest city of God's warm earth, there may be found, night after night winter after winter ... FAMINE, FILTH AND DISEASE". This week's campaign in the Evening Standard of London's dispossessed has identified precisely the same pathology, more than 160 years later. | | 28 Feb - Rev Professor Robert Gribben (284KB) 14/03/2010, One of the great achievements of the modern ecumenical movement is a list of scripture readings for Sundays called the Revised Common Lectionary. Each church is free to adopt and adapt the list as they wish, and so there are several versions. And by a little international hiccup I find I have been working on the wrong Gospel this morning. I’m a week out, so devotees of the lectionary will have to catch up next week. | | 21 Feb - Steven Cooper (199KB) 22/02/2010, When Ken and Peter and I were preparing the service for today earlier this week, one of the things that became clear was that this service has the potential to be quite long and that therefore it might be good to avoid preaching too long a sermon. I shall try to do that - although our reading today give us an awful lot to think about. What I'm going to try to focus on is, firstly, salvation; secondly, what salvation has to do with Lent; and thirdly, what that has to do with you and me. | | 14 Feb - Sue Keegan von Allmen (373KB) 22/02/2010, This is a sermon in fragments. The fragments are from the sort passage from Paul's 2nd letter to the Corinthians. And there are thee. Glory. The glory of God, the glory of Christ, and the "Glory of God is a human being 'fully alive'" Then there is the veil. The veil over moses' face, the veil over people's minds, the veil removed or set aside by God in Christ and for all who are becoming like him. | | 7 Feb - Leao Neto (66KB) 15/02/2010, Theme: God to be found in the Extraordinary or How to remember
Extraordinary: When something extraordinary happens we never forgot. | | 24th Jan - Chris Mackenna | | 17 Jan - Miriam Moules | | 10 Jan - Leao Neto | | 3 Jan - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 20 Dec - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 13 Dec - Leao Neto | | 29 Nov - Leao Neto | | 1 Nov - Burchell Whiteman | | 18 Oct - Leao Neto | | 4 Oct - Sue Keegan von Allmen |
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| 5 July - Burchell Whiteman (770KB) 09/07/2009, God's Kingdom - Our Weakness, His strength
One of the sayings which made an impression on me during middle age and rsonated with me more, soon after I had passed my 60th Birthday was this: The young are always impatient; only the old have plenty time. The second part of the statement clearly does not apply in a practical sense to life expectancy, but it certainly speaks to a wholesome and healty attitude to the quality of whatever life we live. | | 10 May - Miriam Moules (825KB) 18/05/2009, May I speak in the name of the living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
At the last circuit meeting, we were talking about the fact that our social work projects had been awarded "Investor In People" status again, and how proud we were of this fact. For those that don't know, this recognises the work that our social work projects do in nurturing their staff both personally and professionally, and how we contribute to their development. | | 3 May - Leao Neto (56KB) 06/05/2009, Jesus took the psalms and made them his own. “The Lord is my Shepherd”, Jesus appropriated it as, “I am the good Shepherd”. Psalm 22. 1 was his words on the Cross: “Father, why have you forsaken me”. Talking about Judas he uses Psalm 41. 9 – “… my best friend, the one that I trusted most, the one who shared my food turned against me”, that is in the Gospel according to Mark 14. 8. | | 26 April - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,446KB) 28/04/2009, Every morning, one of the first e-mails I notice, is one from our web provider giving me a list of e-mails tht have been quarantined. I check then just in case some I want have been caught up in it. And everyday I am struck by the number offering to change lives. | | Easter Sunday - Leao Neto (250KB) 15/04/2009, "Who will roll the stone away?" Faith, Grace and Love | | 29 March - Burchell Whiteman (892KB) 05/04/2009, Last Saturday, we were engaged in tracking Christ's journey though his ministry and the experience of being misunderstood, persecuted, of his suffering and death. | | 22 March - Leao Netp (585KB) 23/03/2009, In Lent we reflect on teh story of Jesus resolutely going to Jerusalem. The story progresses from misunderstandings, to persecution, from there, to suffering, and death. In this story we learn about God's presence in the drama and tragedy of it all. We learn about Jesus/love overcoming evil and death. | | 15 March - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,482KB) 23/03/2009, This sermon is not the sermon I was going to preach when I told Leao what readings I'd chosen. I'd started reflecting on the terrorist killings in Northern Ireland, on the peace marches, and onthe deaths of some 25 people in Alabama and Germany at the hand of two young men. But that changed on Thursday. | | 8 March - Leao Neto (583KB) 09/03/2009, "Abraham, I will make you father of many nations; and from Sarah kings of people will come from"
"The promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for all the decendents, not only those who rely on the Law [of moses], but all others who rely on the faith of Abraham, the ancestor of us all". | | 22 Feb - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,220KB) 01/03/2009, Making sense of the transfiguration is another of those mysteries that preachers struggle with. Like the Trinity, there's so much we can say, and yet it's difficult to express in the words we have. So this morning, I'm going to say most of what I want to say, by telling you three stories. They're real events. | | 15 Feb - Leao Neto (25KB) 19/02/2009, Jesus said to the man whom he had cleansed from the leprosy: “See that you don’t tell anybody about this healing.”
Where there is secrecy there is probably something political going on.
However the Gospel is much more than just politics. I would like to talk to you about the way in which we should receive the Gospel: about the encounter between politics and mysticism.
| | 8 Feb [Reflection] - Sue Keegan von Allmen (176KB) 09/02/2009, I've always been a little uneasy about the story of Jesus healing Simon's Mother-in-law. It look suspicious to me. Jesus and his pals go to Peter's home to grab a meal in the middle of their busy lives, only to find the person who should have been cooking for them, is ill. | | 1 Feb - Leao Neto (533KB) 03/02/2009, What is the role of dreams and creativity, especially, in times of recession?
The present economic climate demands creativity in spending money. The recession encourages me to do even more of what I always did, look for bargains. Have you noticed that Waitrose reduces the price of bread? I can spot the loaves with 'reduced' tags from a distance! | | 25 Jan - Kenneth Greet [The Annual Soper Sermon] (137KB) 26/01/2009, On a bitter February morning in 1977 I sat in Gatwick Airport waiting for the fog to clear and the ice to be removed from the runway. My plane to Belfast was delayed by an hour, but when I eventually arrived a small group of distinguished people was waiting for me. At the centre of this group was a little lady called Sadie Patterson. | | 18 Jan - Sue Keegan von Allmen (210KB) 19/01/2009, O God the Holy Trinity, uncreated and without beginning, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a single God of love, glory be thee. |
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