Sermons
Where provided by the preacher, the text will be available as a PDF.
Audio recordings are also, usually, uploaded to our Soundcloud site Sermon texts & audioUsual arrangements are interrupted by the pandemic
For the most recent material see the St James's YouTube channel 29 March 2020 Lucy Winkett | Text 15 March 2020 Joan Ishibashi | Audio 8 March 2020 - Lucy Winkett Must I be born again? | Text | Audio 1 March 2020 Georgina Elsey Gospel According To You | Audio 26 February 2020 - Ash Wednesday Daniel Norris | Audio 23 February 2020 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 16 February 2020 Lucy Winkett | Audio 9 February 2020 Lia Dong Shimada | Text | Audio 2 February 2020 Daniel Norris | Audio 26 January 2020 Lucy Winkett (On Hugh's farewell, the House of Bishops and God's inclusive nature) Audio | Text 19 January 2020 Hugh Valentine's last sermon: Hello, I must be going | Text | Audio 12 January 2020 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 5 January 2020 Epiphany Daniel Norris | Audio 29 December 2019 Lucy Winkett | Text | Audio 25 December 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 24 December 2019 Midnight Mass Hugh Valentine It's a heart Thing | Text | Audio 22 December 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 15 December 2019 Morning Eucharist Daniel Norris | Audio Festival of Lessons and Carols Hugh Valentine | Text 8 December 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 1 December 2019 The start of the season of Advent Morning Eucharist Lucy Winkett | Audio Advent evening event with CTiW Ivan Khovacs | Audio 24 November 2019 Hugh Valentine | Text | Audio 17 November 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 10 November 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio (the audio includes the introduction to the service, the two minutes silence, a dramatic presentation on the theme of remembrance, and the sermon) 3 November 2019 All Saints Ivan Khovacs | Audio 31 October 2019 All Souls' Hugh Valentine Text | Audio 27 October 2019 Hugh Valentine - "the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of existence" Text|Audio 20 October 2019 Lucy Winkett - Faith in a time of trolls, bots and silos | Text | Audio 13 October 2019 Daniel Norris | Audio 6 October 2019 Jeremy Fletcher - Ask the animals and they will tell you | Text | Audio 29 September 2019 11am Eucharist - Winnie Varghese | Audio Choral Evensong - Lucy winkett | Audio 22 September 2019 Hugh Valentine Christianity and paid work | Audio | Text 15 September 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 8 September 2019 Lindsay Meader | Audio | Text 1 September 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 25 August 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 18 August 2019 Lindsay Meader | Audio 11 August 2019 Daniel Norris | Audio 4 August 2019 Hugh Valentine Despair: sometimes a springboard Text | Audio 28 July 2019 Lindsay Meader | Audio 21 July 2019 Patronal Festival Morning Eucharist: Lucy Winkett | Audio Choral Evensong (full service, sermon starts at 31m): Daniel Norris | Audio 14 July 2019 Daniel Norris | Audio 7 July 2019 - Pride Sunday Lucy Winkett. No one stands alone |Text | Audio 30 June 2019 11am Eucharist How's your sinning these days? Hugh Valentine | Text | Audio Choral Evensong Lucy Winkett | Audio 23 June 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 16 June 2019 Lindsay Meader | Audio 9 June 2019 Pentecost Lucy Winkett | Audio 2 June 2019 Sorted, sort of. Hugh Valentine Text | Audio 31 May 2019 Royal Academy Service Lucy Winkett | Text | Audio 30 May 2019 Ascension Day Gravity and Grace. Hugh Valentine | Text | Audio 26 May 2019 Lindsay Meader Text | Audio 19 May 20219 Daniel Norris | Audio 12 May 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 5 May 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 28 April 2019 Changed, but remaining recognisable. Hugh Valentine Text | Audio 21 April 2019 - Easter Day Lucy Winkett Text | Audio 19 April 2019 - Good Friday Audio of parts of the Good Friday Liturgy 31 March 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 24 March 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 17 March 2019 Break the cycle. Hugh Valentine Text | Audio 10 March 2019 Lucy Winkett Audio 6 March 2019 Ash Wednesday Ivan Khovacs Text | Audio 3 March 2019 From the Mountaintop to The Rock. Lindsay Meader Audio | Text 24 February 2019 Making the storm to cease. Lucy Winkett | Audio | Text 17 February 2019 Lia Shimada | Audio | Text 10 February 2019 What are mortals that you are mindful of them? Hugh Valentine Text | Audio 3 February 2019 Candlemass Lindsay Meader Text | Audio 27 January 2019 Lucy Winkett | Audio 20 January 2019 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 13 January 2019 The Baptism of Christ Eucharist Celebrated. No one harmed. Hugh Valentine | Text | Audio 6 January 2019 Hard Journeys Lindsay Meader - Audio | Text 30 December 2018 Lucy Winkett | Audio 25 December 2018 Christmas Day Lucy Winkett - Audio 24 December 2018 Christmas Eve Lucy Winkett - Audio Ivan Khovacs (Midnight Mass) - Audio 23 December 2018 Hugh Valentine - There be explosives here | Text | Audio 18 December 2018 Lucy Winkett - Carols for Shoppers Text 16 December 2018 Lindsay Meader - The clock is ticking Text | Audio Parish Carol service - Lucy Winkett Text 9 December 2018 Lucy Winkett | Audio 2 December 2018 Advent Sunday 11am Hugh Valentine - Whay-hey! What a ride: Text | Audio 6pm Lindsay Meader - Advent Liturgy, Churches Together in Westminster Text 25 November 2018 Lindsay Meader Text | Audio 18 November 2018 Hugh Valentine - Apocalypse and anti-apocalypse: Text | Audio 11 November 2018 Remembrance Sunday Ivan Khovacs | Audio (Readings and names of the remembered, then sermon) 4 November 2018 - All Saints Lucy Winkett | Audio 1 November 2018 - All Souls Lindsay Meader Text | Audio 28 October 2018 Lucy Winkett | Audio 21 October 2018 Ivan Khovacs | Audio 14 October 2018 Lucy Winkett | Audio 7 October 2018 Hugh Valentine - Don't outsource your charity: Text | Audio 30 September 2018 The Color Purple | Audio - Lindsay Meader 23 September 2018 When God is silent and the wind is shrill | Audio - Lucy Winkett 16 September 2018 Praying against the tide | Audio - Ivan Khovacs 9 September 2018 We are still the Early Church | Audio - Lucy Winkett 2 September 2018 Rummaging around for purity of heart - Hugh Valentine 26 August 2018 Sword and shield required -| Audio | Lucy Winkett 12 August 2018 When I (am) survey(ed) - Hugh Valentine 5 August 2018 Taken, blessed, broken, given - Lucy Winkett 22 July 2018 Patronal Festival, preached at Evensong The First Time - Lucy Winkett 15 July 2018 Paradox and apologies - Hugh Valentine 8 July 2018 Transition, Struggle, Welcome, and Change - Ivan Khovacs 1 July 2018 Not nobody but somebody - Lucy Winkett 28 June 2018 Sailing against the wind - Ivan Khovacs 17 June 2018 The Kin-dom of God - Lindsay Meader 10 June 2018 In the flow of grace given - Ivan Khovacs 3 June 2018 Soul Music - Hugh Valentine 27 May 2018 Trinity Roses in December - Lucy Winkett 20 May 2018 Pentecost On this Feast of fire, air and water - Ivan Khovacs 13 May 2018 Getting into the spirit... Lucy Winkett 6 May 2018 Love in the time of War - Lucy Winkett 29 April 2018 Unity not uniformity - Lucy Winkett 22 April 2018 Earth Day: the Good Shepherd, the Mad Farmer, and the Pope - Ivan Khovacs 15 April 2018 Resurrection, weather permitting - Hugh Valentine 1 April 2018 Easter Day Easter Day - Ivan Khovacs 18 March 2018 Seeing Jesus - Lindsay Meader 11 March 2018 No mothers were harmed in the making of this sermon - Hugh Valentine 4 March 2017 Grace at 10 per cent - Ivan Khovacs 18 February 2018 Dear fellow sinners and miscreants... Hugh Valentine 11 February 2018 Terrible beauty - Lindsay Meader 4 February 2018 The Word - and Bill Kirkpatrick - Hugh Valentine 28 January 2018 A distinctive compassion - Lucy Winkett 21 January 2018 God behaving badly - Ivan Khovacs 14 January 2018 Who am I? - Lindsay Meader 7 January 2018 The Epiphany Innocence, mirth and epiphanies - Hugh Valentine 31 December 2017 Who am I? - Lucy Winkett 25 December 2017 Christmas Day The tougher side of Christmas - Lindsay Meader 24 December 2017 Midnight Mass: Curated lives and the Incarnation - Hugh Valentine Morning Eucharist - Advent 4: A cloud over the Virgin Mary - Ivan Khovacs 19 December 2017 Carols for Shoppers service Message from a refugee boy - Lucy Winkett 17 December 2017 Please God, make us fearless - Lucy Winkett 10 December 2017 Watch, wait and listen - Lindsay Meader 3 December 2017 An Advent of promise and yearning - Ivan Khovacs 26 November 2017 Going AWOL - Hugh Valentine 2 November 2017 All Souls' The work of grief - Lindsay Meader 22 October 2017 Being generous, being open, being grateful - Susy Brouard 15 October 2017 Prisons - those of the State, those of the mind - Hugh Valentine 8 October 2017 Harvest Creation in a drop of rain - Ivan Khovacs 1 October 2017 From hand to hand, from age to age - Lucy Winkett 24 September 2017 SPAM, Emmaus and getting the right message - Hugh Valentine 17 September 2017 Where will Moses take us today? - Lucy Winkett 3 September 2017 The Public Are Expected... - Hugh Valentine 27 August 2017 The Prodigal Son - then and now - Lindsay Meader 20 August 2017 Take a deep breath and sing it again - Lucy Winkett 13 August 2017 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing' (No longer insiders or outsiders; just belonging) Hugh Valentine 6 August 2017 Living an expectant life and living it now - Lucy Winkett 30 July 2017 Patronal Festival - St James The stories and meals that refresh us - Lindsay Meader 23 July 2017 Grenfell Tower Community: Living Parables - Ivan Khovacs 16 July 2017 Gentrification of the heart - Hugh Valentine 9 July 2017 Pride Service. Remember that this is about love - Lucy Winkett 2 July 2017 A cup of cold water - Lindsay Meader 25 June 2017 Wrestling with stone - Lucy Winkett 4 June 2017 I'll have what they're having, please (Pentecost) - Hugh Valentine 28 May 2017 Staying in Jerusalem and keeping our hearts open - Lucy Winkett 25 May 2017 Ascension Day God doesn't paint by numbers - Ivan Khovacs 21 May 2017 Things aren't the same in Joppa these days - Robin Meyers 14 May 2017 Troubled hearts - Hugh Valentine 7 May 2017 Total Immersion - Lindsay Meader 30 April 2017 Emmaus: the Medium is the Message (A dramatic monologue) Ivan Khovacs 23 April 2017 Choosing the messy organism over the comfortable club - Lucy Winkett 16 April Easter Day How can I keep from singing? - Lindsay Meader 2 April 2017 I am the resurrection and the life - Ivan Khovacs 26 March 2017 Here is your mother - Lindsay Meader 19 March 2017 See Well; View Kindly - Lucy Winkett 12 March 2017 The Gospel of Fairtrade - Ivan Khovacs 5 March 2017 Pulpits and Temptations - watching your step - Lucy Winkett 1 March 2017 Ash Wednesday This is how it is with me - Hugh Valentine 26 February 2017 Some thoughts on the Transfiguration - Steve Innes 19 February 2017 Get Your Act Together for Lent Sunday - Lindsay Meader 12 February 2017 It shouldn't be this difficult. Church, sexuality and bishops - Hugh Valentine 5 February 2017 Love in the age of Trump: a sermon for Candlemas - Lindsay Meader 29 January 2017 The truth about love - Lucy Winkett 22 January 2017 Drop your nets and follow - Ivan Khovacs 15 January 2016 Come and see - Lucy Winkett 8 January 2017 (Epiphany) Tame epiphanies are worthless - Hugh Valentine 1 January 2017 Everyday miracles in the middle of Christmas - Lindsay Meader 25 December 2016 - Christmas Day The Scandal of the Incarnation - Ivan Khovacs 24 December 2016 Christmas and other stories - Lindsay Meader 18 December 2016 High honour - Hugh Valentine 11 December 2016 Advent gestation and expectation - Ivan Khovacs Our Sustainability Champion Deborah Colvin spoke on 11 December at St Paul's Church Rossmore Road Marylebone. Read the text here 4 December 2016 Fearless hospitality - Lucy Winkett 27 November 2016 Advent Sunday Advent People - Lindsay Meader (morning Eucharist) Cosy Advent? Don't bother - Hugh Valentine (Advent Evening CTiW service) |
See also
> Preachers > Seasons of the Christian year Daily prayer materials
Holding on to the Silence - our own Daily Prayer material for use by members of our community and others who find it useful
Church of England Daily Prayer online |
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