Sermons

Most sermons at All Hallows are preached from notes, not from a full text, and so cannot easily be reproduced here. However, there are some exceptions, and if the text of a sermon is available we will post it here. If the sermon was recorded, you can listen to it online.

Date Occasion Preacher Topic
24/08/2008 St Bartholomew David Randolph-Horn Hidden gifts, hidden needs, hidden service
(you can listen to this sermon online)
17/08/2008 13th Sunday after Trinity Alan Batchelor Reaching out across our differences
(you can listen to this sermon online)
29/06/2008 6th Sunday after Trinity Stanley Baxter ‘Who is Jesus Christ for me today?’
(you can listen to this sermon online)
08/06/2008 3rd Sunday after Trinity Jan Betts The Long Obedience
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
01/06/2008 2nd Sunday after Trinity David Randolph-Horn Building our lives on a firm foundation
(you can listen to this sermon online)
27/04/2008 Easter 6 Bernie Hegarty The promise of the Holy Spirit — the beauty of obedience
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
13/04/2008 Easter 4 David Randolph-Horn Gates and Shepherds
(you can listen to this sermon online)
06/04/2008 Easter 3 Eve Rose [not yet available]
23/03/2008 Easter Day Sheena McMain ‘Very early the next morning, while it was still dark, Mary went to the tomb’
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
24/02/2008 Lent 3 David Randolph-Horn [not yet available]
17/02/2008 Lent 2 Jan Betts Responding to God’s Call
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
10/02/2008 Lent 1 Sheena McMain This is My Way
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
03/02/2008 Candlemas David Randolph-Horn Candlemas
(you can listen to this sermon online)
20/01/2008 Second Sunday after the Epiphany Bernie Hegarty Seeing really is believing
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
25/11/2007 Christ the King Annie Heppenstall Christ the King
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
18/11/2007 Kingdom Season 3 Jonathan Pritchard Prisoners Week: Liberty to the Captives
(you can listen to this sermon online)
14/10/2007 Creation Season 2 David Randolph-Horn All Faiths and Nations: the Bigness of God
(you can listen to this sermon online)
30/09/2007 17th Sunday after Trinity Alison Terrell Wealth and the naming of Lazarus
23/09/2007 16th Sunday after Trinity Matthew Fox The Cosmic Christ
(you can listen to this sermon online)
05/08/2007 Transfiguration Pippa Julings Feast of the Transfiguration: Imagination and Mission
22/07/2007 7th Sunday after Trinity David Randolph-Horn Mary Magdalene
(you can listen to this sermon online)
15/07/2007 6th Sunday after Trinity Jan Betts Living with the Law
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
01/07/2007 Lesbian & Gay Liberation Sunday
(4th Sunday after Trinity)		 Marilyn McCord Adams Claiming our Vocations
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
24/06/2007 3rd Sunday after Trinity Sheena McMain The Darkness of God
(you can also listen to this sermon online)
17/06/2007 2nd Sunday after Trinity Ruth Hutchison Be careful who you invite into your house
(you can listen to this sermon online)
20/05/2007 Ascension Sunday Ray Gaston ‘With the eyes of your heart enlightened’
(you can listen to this sermon online)
13/05/2007 6th Sunday of Easter Ray Gaston Getting the Church to be the Church
(you can listen to this sermon online)
06/05/2007 5th Sunday of Easter Julie Greenan Love and Death
(you can listen to this sermon online)
29/04/2007 4th Sunday of Easter Annie Heppenstall Jesus the Good Shepherd
01/04/2007— 08/04/2007 Holy Week and Easter sermon series Ray Gaston Holy Week and Easter sermon series
(you can listen to some of these sermons online)
18/03/2007 Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday) David Randolph-Horn Clothe Yourselves …
(you can listen to this sermon online)
11/03/2007 Third Sunday of Lent Sheena McMain Take up your Cross
(you can listen to this sermon online)
25/02/2007 First Sunday of Lent Ray Gaston Lent … for the Love of God
(you can listen to this sermon online)
18/02/2007   Ruth Hutchison Being like a child
(you can listen to this sermon online)
11/02/2007   Julie Greenan Bleeding and Healing
(you can listen to this sermon online)
25/12/2006 Christmas Night Ray Gaston Darkness and Light
17/12/2006 3rd Sunday of Advent Annie Heppenstall John, Jesus and the Wilderness
24/09/2006   Ray Gaston What if Saint Francis had met Prophet Muhammad?
(you can listen to this sermon online)
03/09/2006   Anna Davie ‘Something helpless that wants our love’
(you can listen to this sermon online)
02/07—06/08/2006 Summer sermon series Various Radically Catholic — resources for an inclusive Church
(you can listen to some of these sermons online, and read others)
21/05/2006 Easter 6 Annie Heppenstall-West ‘You did not choose me, I chose you’
16—30/04/2006 Easter sermon series Ray Gaston Paul and Resurrection Faith:
an exploration of 1 Corinthians 15
(you can listen to some of these sermons online)
05/03/2006 — 09/04/2006 Lent sermon series Various Streams of Living Water:
Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith
(you can listen to some of these sermons online, and read others)
26/02/2006 Sunday before Lent Alison Terrell The Transfiguration
12/02/2006 Third Sunday before Lent David Randolph-Horn Journey inward … Journey Outward
29/01/2006 Epiphany 4 Annie Heppenstall-West What is the call to repentance?
22/01/2006 Epiphany 3 Alison Terrell Abundance
15/01/2006 Epiphany 2 Ray Gaston Jesus and the plurality of faith — integrity and truth in inter-religious relations
(you can listen to this sermon online)
01/01/2006 Christmas 1
(New Year’s Day) 		Ray Gaston The Holy Name of Jesus
(you can listen to this sermon online)
27/11/2005— 18/12/2005 Advent Ray Gaston,
[Liz Stuart],
David Randolph-Horn

Advent themes for today
(you can listen to these sermons online)

Includes ‘Third Isaiah, the Oaks of Righteousness and the pussy cat’ and ‘Death & Judgement’

13/11/2005 Remembrance Sunday Sheena McMain A Reflection for Remembrance Sunday
23/10/2005 Creation Season 3 Ray Gaston Lamentation and Love:
‘Natural’ disasters and worship of the Triune God
09/10/2005 Creation Season 1 Ruth Hutchison Psalm 139
25/09/2005   Annie Heppenstall-West Ezekiel, Jesus and the Spirit of God
11/09/2005   Anna Davie Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render unto God that which is God’s
24/07/2005 Mary Magdalene Annie Heppenstall-West Mary Magdalene and The Da Vinci Code
06/02/2005   Ray Gaston You are the salt of the earth …
you are the light of the world.
(you can listen to this sermon online)
16—30/01/2005 Epiphany sermon series Ray Gaston The Adventure of Faith
(you can listen to the last of these sermons online)
09/01/2005   Ray Gaston What the tsunami teaches us
28/11/2004— 19/12/2004 Advent sermon series Ray Gaston Beyond Rapture: Revelation and Resistance
(you can listen to these sermons online)
21/11/2004   Beccie D’Cunha Love your enemies ... and pray for those who persecute you
10/10/2004   Anna Davie ‘Forgetting the self with a big mind’
(you can listen to this sermon online)
03/10/2004 Creation Season: St Francis’ Day Annie Heppenstall-West St Francis and the Path of Wisdom
26/09/2004   Ray Gaston Godly Economics
(you can listen to this sermon online)
12/09/2004   Ray Gaston God’s Beloved Fools
(you can listen to this sermon online)
05/09/2004   Ruth Hutchison A story about the cost of living [Luke 14.25—35]
22/08/2004   Ray Gaston Sabbath Time
(you can listen to this sermon online)
01/08/2004 Mary, Martha and Lazarus, friends of Jesus Ray Gaston Mary, Martha and Lazarus, friends of Jesus
(you can listen to this sermon online)
25/07/2004 Lesbian and Gay Liberation Sunday Pressley Sutherland Reaching for the Gospel — Taking Spiritual Initiative
(you can listen to this sermon online)
11/07/2004   Anna Davie Crossing the Abyss: A reflection on Luke 10.25—37
13/06/2004   Annie Heppenstall-West The Anointed One
23/05/2004 Ascension Sunday Ray Gaston ‘Why do you stand looking up toward heaven?’
(you can listen to this sermon online)
16/05/2004 Easter 6 Ray Gaston What God do we worship?
(you can listen to this sermon online)
11/04/2004 Easter Sunday Ray Gaston Stepping into Resurrection Life
(you can listen to this sermon online)
14/03/2004   Ruth Hutchison Longing for God
07/03/2004   Kathy Galloway Passionate about the City
22/02/2004   Anna Davie Illuminated by Love
08/02/2004   Isobel Rathbone ‘Catchers of men’ [Luke 5.1–11]
30/11/2003 — 21/12/2003 Advent sermon series Ray Gaston Challenging Consumermas
(you can listen to these sermons online)
09/11/2003   Anna Davie Because I’m worth it — greed and generosity in an age of materialism
02/11/2003 All Saints Sunday Ray Gaston ‘Create a Heterosexual Family’ was not Jesus’ Message
(article based on Ray’s sermon, posted on A Globe of Witnesses website)
05/10/2003 St Francis’ Day Julie Greenan St Francis
(conclusion of our 2003 Creation Season)
30/03/2003   Laura Smith What is Science?
(Part of a Lent series on Gandhi’s Seven Deadly Social Sins)
17/11/2002 Prisoners’ Sunday Anna Davie Love is always good, no matter what the circumstances
10/11/2002   Adrian Thatcher An Inclusive Church in the Power of the Spirit
13/10/2002   Trish Davie Leipzig, 9 October 1989: when the church led a peaceful revolution

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