SERMONS

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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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Imagine an Onion

3 Aug 2022 Sermon by Sarah Cooper Imagine an onion. That onion is you. The outer layer, the skin, is your outer layer. It is a first...

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Prayer II

24 Jul 2022 In the summer of 2008 I went on a 36 day silent retreat in North Wales. I wrote 95 pages of notes from that time; reflections...

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