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Hinde Street sermons
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 | Sermon 1.11.09 (110KB) 05/11/2009, Ritual and Relationship
In many respects our lives as members of a Christian worshipping community are quite simple. In other fundamental respects they are not. But in the twenty-first century, we must give thanks for the possibilities we enjoy to harmonise the simple and the complex in and through the life of Jesus Christ whose name we bear.
| | 18 Oct - Leao Neto (484KB) 23/10/2009, We are all priests of the most high. And have to follow Jesus’ demand and be servants of others.
This week Gordon and I were in Luton together and found ourselves sitting around a table for lunch with people of different religions. There were Muslims and Hindus amongst others in a group of around twenty. The Hindu friend sitting opposite me was telling me with pride that they have a full time priest in the Temple were he worships. | | 4 Oct - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,415KB) 06/10/2009, My first thought when I read the reading set for today, was "what on earth am i going to dowith it, and why didn't I plan someone else to preach!" It's a passage most preachers groan over. But it's one I find especially difficult because it's talking about me. As a divorced person, I'm among those Jesus calls "heard-hearted", and that's not very comfortable". | | 27th Sept - Leao neto (19KB) 29/09/2009, Theme: The way to restore the Broken Rainbow Covenant
Title: Star Gazers, Bird Watchers and Rainbow Makers
1. Have we broken the Rainbow Covenant? | | 13th September - Sue Keegan von Allmen (160KB) 14/09/2009, Today is Racial Justice Sunday and the material provided includes this story heard on an American radio station. A man was coming out of the post office when he passed a blind woman at the bottom of the steps. Her hand was outstretched. “Excuse me” she said, “could you help me?” He was irritated at being confronted with a beggar, but he took some coins out of his pocket, and pressed them into her hand. | | 30 August - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 16 August - Leao Neto | | 19 July - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 5 July - Burchell Whiteman | | 28 June - Leao Neto | | 21st June - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 7 June - Leao Neto | | 31st May - Sue Keegan von Allmen | | 24 May Aldersgate Sunday- 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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