Sermons

AMOS 7:7-15 PSALM 85: 8-END EPHESIANS 1:3-14 MARK 6:14-29 Amos’s plumb line is unexpectedly a symbol of destruction, and warns us of what is to come in the Gospel which we’ve just heard, one of the most horrible in the whole of the New Testament, barring none.  The soldiers who crucify Jesus are simply executing […]

Dear Friends, You will have gathered that I may have been a little busy since Christmas and hence I have not been writing Chaplain’s letters.  I have not spent all the time reading Harry Potter or watching Paddington 2.  I have been to Walsingham three times, I have given a retreat on Film, I have been […]

Repitching the tent May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. ‘… here in the body pent, absent from Him I roam, yet nightly pitch my moving tent a day’s march nearer home.’ (James Montgomery, 1835) To be ‘at home in the body’ as St Paul expresses it can be […]

TRINITY 1 – Mark 2.23 – 3.6   “Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Jesus, how they might destroy him.” After just two chapters of his Gospel St Mark records that powerful parties were bent on getting Jesus killed.  Why? Did they think that he was a terrorist?  No.  They […]

Greetings – (and warm ones at that) – to all our friends and supporters from the brethren here at Mirfield. We continue to bask in the Lord’s glorious sunshine which ripens both the corn and ourselves at the rogation season. Tomorrow (Wednesday), we will have a rogation procession taking place out in the grounds to […]

I am the good shepherd When I was a teenager, in a country far away from here, we young people were often irritated to be called kids by those older and wiser than ourselves. If we dared we would reply, “If I’m a kid you’re a goat and all the dirty slops go down your […]

“Father, in your great mercy you gladdened the disciples with the sight of the risen Lord”. It is difficult not to think of Syria at the moment and wonder what Easter there may be for the Christian communities of Syria. One of the people I met last week has been a regular visitor to Syria […]

Later this morning the Community and our late Brother Roy’s family will inter his ashes in our cemetery.  It’s appropriate that we do this as we begin to observe Passiontide with its purple veiling because when he was recently professed Roy had the singular honour of representing Jesus in various parishes in outdoor processions during […]

EXODUS 201-17 I COR I:18-25 JOHN 2:13-22 Finding out who we are is an important task.  Start with  babies:  they want to know they are loved, that their needs are going to be met.   Their need for attention, for affection, for food and drink, for protection, and everything else. Boys soon want to be with their dads. By […]

We have just heard a very tough Jesus upsetting Peter, who is then even more upset being put so firmly in his place.  Jesus sets out with a firm and accurate prophesy of what is inevitably going to happen to him, and it is not nice.  The followers of Jesus have to “renounce self and […]