Sermons

St Lawrence’s Church, North Hinksey – Mattins on Sunday 21st May 2023 [Easter 7] – Revd. Professor Martin Henig | Photo © Steve Daniels

May 23rd 2023

St Lawrence’s Church, North Hinksey Mattins on Sunday 21st  May 2023 [Easter 7] Revd. Professor Martin Henig Numbers 22:20-35 Behold,I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me; and the ass saw me,and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just […]

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St Margaret’s Church, Binsey – Evensong on Sunday 24th October 2021, The 21st Sunday after Trinity.

October 27th 2021

St Margaret’s Church, Binsey. Evensong on Sunday 24th  October 2021, The 21st Sunday after Trinity. Sermon by the Revd Professor Martin Henig. This is the only time I have been asked to preach this month, a month especially dedicated to Creation, the traditional month for harvest celebrations, the month which begins with the celebration of […]

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St Margaret’s Church, Binsey. 22nd August 2021 – Evensong sermon preached by Revd Dr Martin Henig.

October 27th 2021

St Margaret’s Church, Binsey. 22nd August 2021 Evensong  sermon  preached by  Revd Dr Martin Henig. We gaze at the same stars; we share the same sky; the same universe engages us. Does it matter by what understanding each of us seeks the truth? There cannot be just one route for penetrating so great a mystery. […]

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Preached by Revd Ben Phillips on 7th Feb 2021 at St Thomas’s Goring – relating to Colossians 1 14-20

March 19th 2021

 ‘In Christ all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven; making peace by the blood of his Cross.’ Colossians 1:19-20   All too often, though, the Church has focused solely on God and humanity, but actually the Bible rings out with a […]

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Preached on 7th February 2021 at Priory Church of St Mary in Monmouth, By ASWA President – Bishop Dominic Walker OGS

February 15th 2021

The Cosmic Christ – Creation Sunday The name of Bill Anders is not a household name but he was one of the first group of American astronauts to orbit the moon and to photograph our planet earth from space.  He said that that experience made him rethink his Christian faith because he realised that the […]

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Preached on 3rd January 2021 at St Michael’s, Abingdon By Revd Jennifer Brown

January 3rd 2021

Have you ever been entrusted with a secret or important information that nobody else, or only a few other special people, knew? If so, you’ll know that to be in that position can make you feel privileged, special, important. It can also feel like a great responsibility. What we do with any special knowledge we […]

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A Meditation on St Francis, October 4th 2020

October 4th 2020

There is a long tradition in showing Francis associated with birds and ‘fluffy bunnies’ or the equivalent and the wolf [of Gubbio]. Although many people might dismiss such pictures as merely symbolic or even sentimental, I find such images deeply Biblical (see Isaiah 11.6; and, for the Song of the Three Hebrews, the Benedicite for example). This little […]

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St Margaret’s Church, Binsey A Meditation for Holy Week and Easter

April 12th 2020

St Margaret’s Church, Binsey A Meditation for Holy Week and Easter by Fr. Martin Henig This is a strange time, a strange week, and it will continue to be strange for long afterwards. For some it will mark the end of life; for many it will bring suffering to those  seriously affected by illness, for […]

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St Margaret’s Church, Binsey Eucharist written for Sunday 22nd March 2020 [Mothering Sunday]

March 19th 2020

Revd. Professor Martin Henig Exodus 2: 1-10; Psalm 127:1-4; 2 Corinthians 1:3-7; John 19:25 -27. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, here is your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother,’ And from that hour the disciple […]

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St Margaret’s Church, Binsey, Eucharist on Sunday 26th January 2020 [Epiphany 3]

January 26th 2020

Revd. Professor Martin Henig Isaiah 9: 1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-12, 16-18; 1 Corinthians1:10-18; Matthew 4:12 -23. It has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarrelling among you, my brethren. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong […]

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