Preached this morning at St Francis’. This is part of our current monthly series on Old Testament Heroes and Heroines (part six of seven). I posted the text as Wordles yesterday. 9.15 version – the text here is 1 Samuel 3.1-4.1a. 10.30 for 11.00 version – this is an all-age talk with 1 Samuel 3.1-10 …
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Feb 11 2012
Word as Wordle: BOGOF!
That’s right folks, two Wordles this week! They’re roughly the same passage – 1 Samuel 3.1-4.1a but at the all-age service this Sunday at “10.30 for 11.00″, we’re just reading up to verse 10. So, first the shorter version of the reading, then the full chapter: The prime theme here appears to be the relationship …
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Feb 07 2012
Sermon: Live the Life
Preached Sunday at “10.30 for 11.00″ at St Francis’. The text was 1 Thessalonians 4 and the audio is available as MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. I earlier published the text as a Wordle.
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Feb 07 2012
General Synod MP3 stream
There’s been a lot of discussion on Twitter over the last day or so about the live audio stream of General Synod and the fact that since it’s only available in an evil proprietary format (ASX), there are a great many people who can’t access it. So here’s the solution, you can access it by …
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Feb 02 2012
Word as Wordle: 1 Thessalonians 4
One of the joys – and difficulties – of having a large team is sometimes a few weeks can elapse between preaching. During February this year, for various reasons, I’m preaching almost every Sunday though. This coming Sunday, our text is 1 Thessalonians 4 and here it is as a Wordle: Paul seems to turn …
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Jan 16 2012
Sermon Catchup
I just realised I’ve not posted any sermon uploads here since October – time for an Epic Catchup! 4 December 2011, 9.15 only: On Trial! 11 December 2011, 9.15 only: The Nativity. 18 December 2011: Salvation has been sent (9.15); Salvation has been sent (11.00). 8 January 2012, 9.15 only: Deborah. 15 January 2012, 10.30 …
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Jan 13 2012
An Open Invitation to Mark Driscoll
“Pastor” Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (no, not that one, the other Mars Hill) has commented on his perception of the quality of preaching in the church in the UK. He’s done so in an interview for Christianity magazine conducted by someone from Premier Radio. To help people get up to speed on this, …
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Nov 22 2011
Make your church website suck less
Earlier today, I commented on Twitter that a lot of church websites “make me want to cry“. This spawned a number of suggestions as to why it might be. The simple answer of course is that it’s because so many church websites are just very bad indeed. Now, I’m not a definitive expert on how …
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Oct 27 2011
Impromptu Sermon: All “isms” are defeated in Jesus
Below is a transcript of my impromptu sermon at yesterday’s FlashEvensong outside St Paul’s. The readings were 2 Kings 9.1-16 and Acts 27.1-26. You can hear the audio of the whole FlashEvensong here. The sermon begins at 28.04 and lasts just under three minutes. “Keep your courage, men” said Paul (Whay!). Keep up your courage …
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Oct 26 2011
I didn’t expect to be doing that today…
This evening, I’ve done something I have never done before: I led a service of BCP Evensong. Nothing unusual in me doing that you might think, what with me being a vicar and all. Ordinarily, that would be true but it was the context that made this Evensong so unusual. This was a Flash Mob …
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