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SERMONS
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Epiphany: Freedom and Friendship
22 Jan 2023 ‘Follow me and I will make you fish for people.’ INFSHSA I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth in...
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1st January: The Name of Jesus
1 Jan 2023 Reading: Luke 2: 15 – 21Sermon by Anne East Happy New Year! This year January 1st 2023 falls on a Sunday and we have the...
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Christmas: this quintessence of dust
24 Dec 2022 Readings: John 1:1-14Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green  …I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth,...
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Advent IV: The Nativity Play
18 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green When I first arrived at St Margaret’s there hadn’t been a Nativity play for some time....
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Work in Progress
11 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green The mind is a funny thing. It prefers to deal with broad brush strokes rather than detail,...
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St Nicholas
6 Dec 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green St Nicholas is a good saint to celebrate at this time of year. He reminds us, and helps us...
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Advent
27 Nov 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green In my early twenties I started a phd in theology and literature, which took the best part...
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Christ the King
20 Nov 2022 Sermon preached by Anne EastReadings: Jeremiah 23: 1-6, Colossians 1: 11-20, Luke 23:33-43 I have been reading ‘Ghosts of...
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Remembrance Sunday
13 Nov 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green As the world never ceases to spin, and technology runs our social lives, dating, churches...
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I know that my redeemer liveth
6 Nov 2022 I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. We are in the month of Remembrance: On All...
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All Souls
2 Nov 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green There is a tension in the New Testament between two ideas of eternal life. It’s about verb...
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All Saints 2022
30 Oct 2022 Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to...
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Bible Sunday
23 Oct 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green Particularly men, particularly when they’re younger, have a particular way of...
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Jumping out of Planes
16 Oct 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green This time 5 years ago, I spent a day-and-a-half at the US and NATO air base at Ramstein in...
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Harvest 2022
9 Oct 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green Is there anything more wrought with contradiction than the Church of England? There can be...
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Dedication Evensong
2 Oct 2022 Evensong, I’ve always felt, is the last refuge of the spiritual. Everyone who goes to church has the things about church that...
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Dedication Sunday
2 Oct 2022 What does it mean to be St Margaret’s, Putney? This is the first time in recent years – to my knowledge – we have celebrated a...
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
25 Sept 2022 If we were to have heard this morning an announcement of a new global pandemic, what would your reaction have been? “Ugh –...
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Creation Sunday
18 Sept 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus Green There are two facts, two doctrines if you like, on which Christianity, as a philosophy, a...
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Sermon on the Death of her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
11 Sept 2022 ‘For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory  beyond all measure’. Kings seem a...
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