Essential Journey
Duration: 13:30
Recorded on: 26.04.2020
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Essential Journey
A Sermon preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 26 April 2020 by the Revd Dr Sam Wells.
Reading for this address: Luke 24: 13-35.
The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany
How can we find forgiveness? How can we restore a relationship when we’ve done something terribly wrong?
The Second Sunday before Advent
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead thou me on;
The Last Sunday After Trinity
The exhibition of Anthony Gormley’s life work at the Royal Academy of Arts is a must-see.
The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
The 2019 film, The Professor and the Madman, set in London, beginning in 1872, tells the story of an American surgeon and Civil War veteran, William Chester Minor, who, in a fit of paranoid rage, wrongly believing there to be a plot to murder him, shoots and kills George Merrett, leaving a widow, Eliza, and six orphaned children.
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity
Those of you who have read the flyer, for our Autumn Lecture series will have seen that our theme is the quality of mercy. Mercy feels a slightly anachronistic word today, in a culture and political backdrop which often appears to be one of blame, hostility and increasing division.
The Ninth Sunday after Trinity
‘Boris Johnson must peddle Brexit optimism “as if he were a steroid-boosted cyclist trying to win the Tour de France” between now and October 31, key Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has argued’. ‘Johnson’s promise to prove “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters” wrong, and his claim that “no one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve and ambition of this country”, is in exactly that vein’.
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity
Last week I took my nephew to see the production of Jesus Christ Superstar which is playing at the Barbican. It’s a great revamped production and the music, set and dancing feel fresh, dramatic and alive.