Luke 10:1-9 – A mission-shaped church

You can download this sermon as a Word document here At St. Andrew’s, we are constantly exploring together what it means for us to be a mission-shaped church and to share the Gospel to the wider community in both word and deed. We are soon moving into Christmas,...

Luke 10:25-37 – Celebrating the Queen’s 90th Birthday

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here So today we mark the 90th birthday of a quite remarkable woman: Her Majesty the Queen. We join with millions of others today, in this nation and throughout the Commonwealth to thank God for her life and...

Luke 10:38-42 – Mary and Martha

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here This morning, we say two ‘hello’s’ and one ‘goodbye’. We say ‘hello’ and welcome to our friends from Berlin, and we are thankful for the link that our two churches have together and the way in which we...

Luke 14:25-33 – Costly discipleship

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here What a curious mix we find in the person of Jesus. He was an enormously attractive personality. The first words of our Gospel reading testify to that fact: “Large crowds were travelling with Jesus”. He...

Luke 17:11-19 – The healing of the lepers

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here I was taking with a medical professional this week about the notion of Medical Tourism, which has become such big business now. So many thousands of people are now choosing to travel to other parts of...

Luke 18:35-43 – Approaching God in prayer

You can download the text of this sermon as a Word document here When this story starts of the healing of the healing of the blind man starts, Jesus is heading towards Jerusalem for the final time. It is the beginning of the last week of Jesus’ life and he is heading...