The Way Home   So far in the Triduum, as we have travelled with Jesus from the Last Supper to the resurrection we have been exploring the theme of home. On Maundy Thursday, in the evening, we talked about the promise of home, as we gave thanks for the Last Supper, we remembered how Jesus made a covenant, agreed a literal mortgage with us to save us, and in which He pays in full through His broken body and His shed blood. On Good Friday we talked about the cost of home as we r

The Price of Home Over the Triduum as we journey with Jesus from the table of the Last Supper to the Cross to the empty tomb we are doing so alongside the theme of home. Yesterday we looked at how we entered into a covenant, into a mortgage with Christ at the Last Supper, and today we are looking at Jesus paying the price of that covenant with His own body on the cross.   When we think of our home, that sense of home is nearly always associated with a building. Think of your

The Promise of Home Over the next three days, tonight, at the good Friday service and at the Easter Vigil, I will be looking at this idea of home. Tonight we will think about the promise of home, tomorrow the price of home and on Saturday the arrival at home. When Claire and I were sharing our first home together, we didn’t have two pennies to rub together. Straight after university, I had managed to get a job in a school in the middle of nowhere in deep rural Lincolnshire an

forgive the lack of posts here! Since I began preaching without note I have not been posting sermons here. But I have a plan for 2026, watch this space - Revd Graham Scripture: John 1:1-14 You know how I really wind up my wife? I manage to really get on her wick, because every summer, I end up singing Christmas carols or songs. Now this isn’t me deliberately winding her up, or being particularly strange, mad or anything else. No, the thing is, because I grew up in the tropic

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Reading: Mark 4:26-34 May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When I was out in South Africa,...

Reading: Matthew 5:20-26 May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In my previous life as a...

May I speak in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today we are commemorating a momentous day in the...

May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen How many of you had the privilege of seeing the...

Ephesians 4:11-16 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for...

This year, over Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and now of course at the Easter Vigil I have been sharing with you my experience of burning...

May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Last night we explored how the Servant King who never...

May in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Each year, on Maundy Thursday, one of my duties is to go to...

Reading: Jeremiah 7:23-28, the account of the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas can be found here May I speak in the name of the Father...

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May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When we look at the history of media, I don’t think...

Reading: Acts 2:1-21 What a privilege it is to come and speak at this new service tonight in this beautiful church. My name is Graham and...

Readings: 1 Corinthians 13, Galatians 5, Luke 6:27-45 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your...

May I speak in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I want to tell you a story that I heard many years...

Reading: Matthew 11:11-15 May I speak in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As many of you know my...