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 & audio26 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 OPEN SOURCE SERMONS We used to say that the texts of sermons and addresses from St James's were copyright protected and that if you wished to use them in anyway you had to ask the author. We have woken up to our mistake, and now practice 'open source sermons'. 'All things come from you, and of your own do we give you' is a phrase in the liturgy, which underlines that all we possess, create, produce and think arises only because of what we have freely received in the first place. We are advised to still show the copyright claim but want readers to feel free to use whatever they find in our sermon texts as they wish. Should you choose to let us know of any use you put them to, we would be delighted to hear from you - but that is not obligatory. The St James's Clergy 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
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