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SERMONS
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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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Prayer I
17 Jul 2022 Just imagine how annoyed you’d be if at a dinner party, after you’d cooked, cleared everything away, brought out the coffee...
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Freedom
10 Jul 2022 “Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery, for you were called to freedom” About 10 years ago, now, I went to an unusual...
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St Margaret's Day 2022
3 Jul 2022 St Margaret’s – This Place. And today – St Margaret’s Day. What’s it all about? St Margaret? Let’s be honest – we have very...
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Freedom and where to find it.
26 Jun 2022 Sermon by Revd Dr Brutus Green Readings : Proper 8: 1 Kings 19.15-16,19-end; Psalm 16; Galatians 5.1,13-25; Luke 9.51-end “Do...
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Christianus Sum: Feast of St Alban
22 Jun 2022 An ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing. A simple story of one man standing up for what he believes in, bearing...
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When Horror Comes to Supper
19 Jun 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus GreenReadings: Isaiah 65:1-9, Psalm 22, Galaitians 3:23-end; Luke 8:26-39 “When horror comes to...
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Trinity: Wisdom
12 Jun 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus GreenReadings: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31'; Psalm 8; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 North of Swansea is...
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A Pentecostal Jubilee
5 Jun 2022 Sermon by the Revd Dr Brutus GreenReadings: Genesis 11:1-9; Psalm 104:26-36, 37b; Acts 2:1-21; John 14:8-17 Preachers across...
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Easter: What does it mean to reject evil?
29 May 2022 Do you renounce the deceit and corruption of evil? It’s not a question you get asked every day. There’s a baptism later this...
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Ascension: Conceptualizing The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
26 May 2022 There’s a section of the Jesus narrative that makes many people sceptical. I mean, you might say quite a lot of it is hard...
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State of the Parish 2022
22 May 2022 ‘Go and do likewise’. It’s tempting to read the Good Samaritan just as an ethical imperative. Find the struggling people and...
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