by Cotham Parish Church | Dec 4, 2020 | Blog, Resources, Sermons
God Does Not Come As We Expect 1st Sunday Advent 2020, Isaiah 64 And so the clock turns and a new church year begins today, not with Jools Holland’s Hootenany and fireworks of New Years, but with Advent. With a season of waiting. A season that acknowledges our...
by Cotham Parish Church | Feb 24, 2020 | Resources, Sermons
Isaiah 58.1-9a; 1 Corinthians 2.1-12; Matthew 5.13-20 A prayer from the Ambrosian Sacramentary: We ask you, O Lord, give strength to the weary, aid to the sufferers, comfort to the sad, help to those in tribulation. Amen. I would like you briefly, to imagine you are...
by Cotham Parish Church | Feb 10, 2020 | Resources, Sermons
Isaiah 58.1-9a; 1 Corinthians 2.1-12; Matthew 5.13-20 A prayer from the Ambrosian Sacramentary: We ask you, O Lord, give strength to the weary, aid to the sufferers, comfort to the sad, help to those in tribulation. Amen. I would like you briefly, to imagine you are...
by Cotham Parish Church | Jan 27, 2020 | Resources, Sermons
Mt 4: 12-23, Is 9:1-4, 1 Cor 1:10-18 Sermon, Cotham, 26.01.20 From that time on Jesus began to proclaim, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” … change your life, God’s kingdom is here. In Matthew’s gospel this is Jesus’s first public sermon, indeed his...
by Cotham Parish Church | Dec 8, 2019 | Resources, Sermons
Is. 11: 1-10; Rom 15: 4- 13; Mt 3: 1- 12 Over the last weeks you may have noticed that the media and politicians have been rather caught up in events which culminate, hopefully, this Thursday. And I’m not talking about the writing workshop I’m running on Thursday...
by Cotham Parish Church | Dec 4, 2019 | Resources, Sermons
Advent 1: Sermon, Mt 24:36-44, Is 2:1-5, Rom 13:11-end The Intentional Disorientation of Advent Last Christmas I took my kids to see the re-boot of Mary Poppins, the original was the first film I was taken to see at the cinema, so it was a trip down memory lane,...