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| The changing face of Britain | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | Sermons | | Downloads: | 41 | | Recorded: | 13/09/2009 | | Length: | 20 minutes |
| | Fitting people into categories is something we do quite naturally. It’s one of the ways we make sense of the world. In their early years, children do it quite innocently, but as we grow up experience teaches us to be a little more cautious. And with time as we get to know “the other”, we can let go of these first impressions, and allow them to encounter us as they are and change our understanding of our categories. Well that’s the ideal. | |
| | A question of trust | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | Sermons | | Downloads: | 82 | | Recorded: | 21/06/2009 | | Length: | 15 minutes |
| | Trust isn’t something that comes easily in our day and age. And many feel so overwhelmed by the events affecting our lives, our communities and the wider world, that we cease to trust anything. (This is an excerpt of Sue's full sermon, the text of which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/pxkrug)
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| | Promises to transform | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | Sermons | | Downloads: | 90 | | Recorded: | 26/04/2009 | | Length: | 17 minutes |
| | Each day, thousands of unwanted e-mails promise to transform your life, says Sue Keegan Von Allmen. But we don't need makeovers, diets or body sculpting. | |
|  | Covenant prayer | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | Sermons | | Downloads: | 99 | | Recorded: | 04/01/2009 | | Length: | 3 minutes |
| | Sue Keegan Von Allmen leads the traditional Methodist prayer "I am not my own but yours..." from the Hinde Street covenant service on 4 Jan 2009 | |
| | The meaning is in the waiting | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | | You’re not about to hear the sermon I preached last week, but
R.S Thomas’ poem is still relevant, because we’re still in Advent and we’re still waiting. And his last phrase “the meaning is in the waiting” is where I want to stay. | |
|  | The beauty of waiting | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | | We become bearers of hope for a troubled world as we give time to waiting, says Sue Keegan Von Allmen, at the start of Advent. | |
| | Living wisely | Sue Keegan von Allmen | | | | I have a reputation in our family for having been a particularly naughty child. lt meant I used to spend a lot of time standing on a chair in the corner of the classroom and because that didn't always have the desired effect I'd often end up in the headmistresses' room. She was a stern nun and on one occasion, no doubt completely exasperated by me, said "God won't love you if you're not good". Her words are etched in my memory. | |
| | Wrestling with a new preacher | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | | In her first sermon at Hinde Street as superintendent of the West London Mission, Sue Keegan Von Allmen considers wrestling with brokenness. "I know that when Jesus sacrificed his life for us, God showed us that the power of vulnerability and brokenness is so much greater than the violence, with which his opponents tried to confine love. And over the years, I’ve learnt that when we accept our brokenness, in the silence of the night, in wrestling and learning when to let go, we are being blessed with resurr | |
| | Feeling broken? | Sue Keegan Von Allmen | | | | If we can accept our own brokenness, and accept our desire to be accepted, we will become less afraid of being vulnerable. | |
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