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Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (22nd December 2024) by Alan Roadley ALM
Luke 1:39-45(46-55) In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry,…
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Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent (15th December 2024) by Alan Roadley ALM
Preached at St Stephen’s Church Burnley Philippians 4:4-7 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of…
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Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent (15th December 2024) by Eric Massie
May the words that I speak be both spoken and received in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. For the whole season of Advent, we can speak of the Coming of Christ, meaning both his birth asn a child into the world over 2000 years ago, and…
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Sermon for the Second Sunday before Advent (17th November 2024) by Alan Roadley ALM
Mark 13:1-8 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!’ Then Jesus asked him, ‘Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.’ When he was sitting on the…
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Sermon for Bible Sunday (27th October 2024) by Eric Massie
May the words that I speak be both spoken and received in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On this Bible Sunday I would like to begin with a saying, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’, which I thought that I would mention for…
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Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity (22nd September 2024) by Eric Massie
May the words that I speak be both spoken and received in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Christian faith to many people is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened and loved. Yet often this experience is lost in the baggage of Christian theology and…
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Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity (4th August 2024) by Eric Massie
May the words that I speak be both spoken and received in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. If I was to ask you what you would consider to be a miracle, then I wonder what you would choose? (If we bear in mind that a…
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Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity (23rd June 2024) by Eric Massie
May the words that I speak be both spoken and received in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In today’s gospel reading of Mark where we hear that Jesus calms the storm; Jesus had taught the crowds all day from the boat. He was certainly tired.…
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Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity (23rd June 2024) by Alan Roadley ALM – preached at St Stephen’s Church
Mark 4:35-41 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the otherside.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat.There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the wavesbroke over the boat, so that it was…
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Sermon for the Third Sunday after Trinity (16th June 2024) by Alan Roadley ALM
1 Samuel 15.34 – 16.13 Then Samuel left for Ramah, but Saul went up to his homein Gibeah of Saul. Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, thoughSamuel mourned for him. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king overIsrael.The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will…