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Isaiah 56.1, 6–8; Matthew 15.21–28 In the last couple of weeks here at St. Andrew’s, we have had new lighting installed, and subsequently I have been able to see our remarkable wall paintings differently. These wall paintings are unique to the Church given by parish members at the turn of the last century, and they…
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Matthew 14.22–33; Romans 10.5–15 Around eighteen months ago, I was looking through the jobs page of the Church Times. I was coming towards the end of my curacy and beginning to look for what might come next. I knew some of the things I felt called to, and a big city was definitely one of them.…
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Ninth Sunday after Trinity | Isaiah 55.1–5; Matthew 14.13–21 There are moments when the needs of the world before us simply feel too great. We look at what is being asked of us personally, as a Church and as a society, and then at what we have in our hands, and the gap between the…
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A sermon preached at the Anglican Eucharist National Network of Pastoral Musicians 2026 Conference | One Heart, One Voice | Highgate House | Sunday 26th July 2026 Matthew 13.31–33, 44–52; Romans 8.26–end I wonder, if I were to ask you, “What, or where, is home?” what your answer might be? Until this time last year,…
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Matthew 9.9–13, 18–26 & Romans 4.13–25 We live in a culture that appears to admire strength. We celebrate confidence, success, resilience, and independence. We are encouraged to put our best selves forward, to project competence, to keep going no matter what. And while there is much that is good in courage and perseverance, it can…
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Sermon for Ascension Sunday, Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:44-end I remember as a child struggling a little with the Ascension. I did not naturally pick up on “the great joy” that the disciples seemed to experience after Jesus ascended into heaven. What I noticed instead was the absence. Jesus goes.The disciples are left behind.And if we…
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Sixth Sunday of Easter – John 14:15–21 I wonder if you’ve ever been asked that question, perhaps by a well-meaning Christian on a street corner, or in a conversation that suddenly takes a turn: “Do you have a personal relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ?” It’s a question I sometimes find difficult to hear. Not…
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John 18–19 | Psalm 22:1–11 | Hebrews 10:16–25 | Romans 8:31-39 Today is not an easy day. Good Friday confronts us with the rawest edges of human experience:grief, abandonment, brutality, injustice.We have just heard it in the Passion according to St John,betrayal, denial, violence, humiliation, death. It is stark.It is uncomfortable.It hurts. And perhaps that…
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Tonight, we begin something we do not finish. Or perhaps more truthfully, tonight, we are drawn into something that has no end. The liturgy of this night does not conclude with a blessing or a dismissal. It simply… continues. Into darkness. Into silence. Into watchfulness. For tonight begins a liturgy that last 3 days, it…
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Yesterday, I stood in central London with hundreds of thousands of others, alongside folk from my neighbourhood in Stamford Hill. Around half a million people gathered to say no to racism. It was powerful. It was hope-filled. And, because there were so many of us, it was long, a happy problem to have. There was something deeply…
Ruth Greenaway-Robbins 