Sermon Archive
Welcome to our sermon archive – regularly updated for your interest from our weekly services and regular readings that we have here at the Cathedral.
We provide this resource as a way of enabling those who are unable to attend our services here at the Cathedral to access the resources we use for worship, and share with us in our Christian reflection from the comfort of their own home.
Please note: Sermons are uploaded as regularly as possible so if you find that the current week has not yet been uploaded please check back in a few days time.
06-05-2011 09:47
My mother is 89, and her greatest fear is that she may be losing her memory. Actually, her memory isn’t too bad. It’s not much worse than mine, and I don’t think it’s much worse than it was 40 years ago. She’s always been a bit absent-minded, but not so that you would think there was anything wrong. But when she forgets things she gets very frustrated, and imagines that it’s a sign of galloping dementia and the complete meltdown of her personality.
Read more … Wednesday at One - Nehemiah 8: 1-12 The People of the Book
06-05-2011 09:44
I don’t know what you think of when you hear the word ‘authority’? A policeman, perhaps. Or a teacher. Or the Queen. Or a Bishop/Minister? For many people nowadays the word ‘authority’ is a negative word. We don’t like the sound of authority, if it suggests we are going to be told what to do.
Read more … Timothy 3:10 – 4:5 The Authority of Scripture
06-05-2011 09:40
When I was a boy of about 9 or 10 years old, my friends and I used to love playing in a big old limestone quarry across the road from where I lived. It was a fabulous natural playground where we could build dens, play hide and seek, and hunt for fossils, and during the long summer holidays which seemed to stretch on for ever, we led a semi-feral existence untroubled by the concerns of the Health and Safety Executive, or indeed adult authority of any kind.
Read more … John 4: 5-15 Water of Life
23-03-2011 08:24
An angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury.
Read more … Wednesday at One - Christ the Centre of Scripture - Acts 8:26-40
16-03-2011 08:22
In this series of Lent Addresses we are trying to hear what the Bible has to say about itself. We are looking at various passages where there is teaching about the nature of Scripture, or where we are given examples of how people engaged with Scripture or were changed by it. Today we are going to look at Psalm 1.
Read more … Psalm 1
09-03-2011 08:18
What is the difference between reading the Bible and hearing the Word of God?
That’s the question I want to explore over the course of these Lent Addresses. Christians of every denomination value the Bible as a crucial source of authority. In the Church of England we end our Bible readings by saying ‘This is the Word of the Lord’ as if the text of the Bible and the Word of God are one and the same.
Read more … Wednesday at One - The Word of God – John 1: 1-14
06-06-2010 13:50
The news headlines this week have been even more disturbing than usual. First there was the attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza which led to the deaths of nine activists and the wounding of dozens more by Israeli commandoes. There has been increasing concern about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which is now being described as the worst environmental disaster in US history.
Read more … 6th July 2010
10-02-2010 08:34
Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at some of the parables of Jesus; there’s been no particular reason for choosing the 5 parables we’ve looked at, except that they all seem to teach the opposite of what you would expect; you wouldn’t expect to grow cedar trees from mustard seed, or for workers who laboured for an hour to be paid the same as those who had worked all day.
Read more … Tall Stories of Jesus (5): Natural Justice from Corrupt Judge
