Sermon for Pentecost 28th May 2023

When I first started thinking about my sermon for this morning, I did think of perhaps starting by asking you to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ because today, the day of Pentecost, is, as I’m sure many of you will know, the day that many people regard as the Church’s birthday. We regard Pentecost as the Church’sContinue reading “Sermon for Pentecost 28th May 2023”

Sermon for the 7th Sunday of Easter, 21st May 2023

This morning’s Gospel continues our reading of Jesus’ Farewell Discourse from St John’s Gospel. This is something we’ve been reading for the last few Sundays, and this morning, we hear the start of the last part of that discourse which, although it still forms part of the Farewell Discourse, is often given its own nameContinue reading “Sermon for the 7th Sunday of Easter, 21st May 2023”

Sermon for the 6th Sunday of Easter, 14th May 2023

If you were to ask a Christian, any Christian, ‘Do you love Jesus?’, the answer would almost certainly be, ‘Yes’. In fact, it would be a surprise if the answer was anything other than yes. But if you were to ask, ‘Do you keep his commandments?’, and they were to answer honestly, I think theContinue reading “Sermon for the 6th Sunday of Easter, 14th May 2023”