Here is what I said yesterday – text to follow later.
Sermon preached on 9 May 2010
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Low Sunday Sermon – Salisbury
20 April 2009 By 1 Comment
Here is the sermon that I preached at Salisbury yesterday.
Here is the text:
The doors were locked for fear of the Jews and Jesus came and stood amongst them and said, “Peace be with you”.
I think I have only ever once been really frightened in church – frightened that someone would pull a knife or bring out a gun to harm me or the person standing next to me. I will talk about that in a minute, but first let us think about Thomas.
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Good Friday Address Number 5
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This day you will be with me in Paradise
Sermon – Diocesan Evensong
2 April 2009 By Leave a Comment
Here is the sermon that I preached a couple of weeks ago at the Diocesan Choral Evensong.
Kelvin Holdsworth – on Friendship
22 February 2009 By 6 Comments
Here is this morning’s sermon on friendship which was delivered in a rather chilly church.
There is something iconic about the friends who take their paralyzed friend to Jesus.
I remember doing it in Sunday school. We listened to the story. We acted it out. We coloured it in.
There is something wonderfully visual about the story of them carrying him towards the house where Jesus is and then kept out by the crowd taking him up onto the roof and carefully lowering him down towards the healer.
It is an iconic picture postcard of the healing Jesus.
This morning, I want to use those friends as the starting point for what I want to say. A leaping off point for thinking not about the healing miracle that Jesus does but about the miracle of healing and wholeness which friendship itself represents.
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