Hinde Street sermons

Recent Media Uploads   5 September - Sue Keegan von Allmen (329KB) 07/09/2010, In February 1522 a 30 year old nobleman left his ancestral home in Loyola and rode towards Monterrat in Northern Spain. His family was bewildered and upset by his decision. He was breaking with family tradition by seeking his spiritual fortune. Their vocation [if we can put it like that ] was for security and leadership in the community. 15 Aug - Sue Keegan von Allmen (244KB) 16/08/2010, I was at school in the 60s and 70s when we thought human progress was unstoppable. Nothing, it seemed would dent humanity's continuing progress towards better life for all. The green revolution was producing a more food supply for the "developing world", or horizons were being explanded through space exploration, and time saving machines were liberating us from housework. 1 August - Sue Keegan von Allmen (268KB) 02/08/2010, I want to begin by asking you to use your imagination. You need to imagine the sort of parcel used in a game of pass the parcel. It has lots of layers of paper and something in the middle. But this parcel is inside out. The gift, is outside available to everyone, and the more paper you take off the further you get from the gift. 11 July - Sue Keegan von Allmen (277KB) 13/07/2010, When I came to think about how to say what I want to say about today's Gospel, I've found myself drawn back to some of what I said on Easter Day. The situation is very different. This isn't the story of a disciple numbed by the events of Holy Week and Good Friday, who begins to grieve, and is then surprised by the joy of Jesus' resurrection. 4 July - Leao Neto (108KB) 07/07/2010, There is a dichotomy that has shaped the present day understanding io church. This is an idea that the church is either an organised institution or a vibrant movement. Our task is to make it both: an organised movement, and a Missionary Church. 27 June - Leao Neto 23 May, Pentecost & Aldersgate Sunday - Ken Howcroft 16 May - Leao Neto 2 May - Leao Neto 18 April - Deacon Paul Wayne 11 April - Leao Neto Easter Sunday - Sue Keegan von Allmen Sermon 7 March - Sue Keegan von Allmen 28 Feb - Rev Professor Robert Gribben 21 Feb - Steven Cooper

Recent Media Uploads   23 May, Pentecost & Aldersgate Sunday - Ken Howcroft (69KB) 03/06/2010, We’ve seen it all in the last couple of weeks, between the election and the formation of the new government. Nobody really sure what’s going on or whether anything’s going on. Nobody knowing whether things are going to get better or worse. People milling around in private rooms and public places. Then a rumour something’s happening, and everyone rushes to see. A media frenzy. 5 July - Burchell Whiteman (770KB) 09/07/2009, God's Kingdom - Our Weakness, His strength One of the sayings which made an impression on me during middle age and rsonated with me more, soon after I had passed my 60th Birthday was this: The young are always impatient; only the old have plenty time. The second part of the statement clearly does not apply in a practical sense to life expectancy, but it certainly speaks to a wholesome and healty attitude to the quality of whatever life we live. 10 May - Miriam Moules (825KB) 18/05/2009, May I speak in the name of the living God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. At the last circuit meeting, we were talking about the fact that our social work projects had been awarded "Investor In People" status again, and how proud we were of this fact. For those that don't know, this recognises the work that our social work projects do in nurturing their staff both personally and professionally, and how we contribute to their development. 3 May - Leao Neto (56KB) 06/05/2009, Jesus took the psalms and made them his own. “The Lord is my Shepherd”, Jesus appropriated it as, “I am the good Shepherd”. Psalm 22. 1 was his words on the Cross: “Father, why have you forsaken me”. Talking about Judas he uses Psalm 41. 9 – “… my best friend, the one that I trusted most, the one who shared my food turned against me”, that is in the Gospel according to Mark 14. 8. 26 April - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,446KB) 28/04/2009, Every morning, one of the first e-mails I notice, is one from our web provider giving me a list of e-mails tht have been quarantined. I check then just in case some I want have been caught up in it. And everyday I am struck by the number offering to change lives. Easter Sunday - Leao Neto (250KB) 15/04/2009, "Who will roll the stone away?" Faith, Grace and Love 29 March - Burchell Whiteman (892KB) 05/04/2009, Last Saturday, we were engaged in tracking Christ's journey though his ministry and the experience of being misunderstood, persecuted, of his suffering and death. 22 March - Leao Netp (585KB) 23/03/2009, In Lent we reflect on teh story of Jesus resolutely going to Jerusalem. The story progresses from misunderstandings, to persecution, from there, to suffering, and death. In this story we learn about God's presence in the drama and tragedy of it all. We learn about Jesus/love overcoming evil and death. 15 March - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,482KB) 23/03/2009, This sermon is not the sermon I was going to preach when I told Leao what readings I'd chosen. I'd started reflecting on the terrorist killings in Northern Ireland, on the peace marches, and onthe deaths of some 25 people in Alabama and Germany at the hand of two young men. But that changed on Thursday. 8 March - Leao Neto (583KB) 09/03/2009, "Abraham, I will make you father of many nations; and from Sarah kings of people will come from" "The promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for all the decendents, not only those who rely on the Law [of moses], but all others who rely on the faith of Abraham, the ancestor of us all". 22 Feb - Sue Keegan von Allmen (1,220KB) 01/03/2009, Making sense of the transfiguration is another of those mysteries that preachers struggle with. Like the Trinity, there's so much we can say, and yet it's difficult to express in the words we have. So this morning, I'm going to say most of what I want to say, by telling you three stories. They're real events. 15 Feb - Leao Neto (25KB) 19/02/2009, Jesus said to the man whom he had cleansed from the leprosy: “See that you don’t tell anybody about this healing.” Where there is secrecy there is probably something political going on. However the Gospel is much more than just politics. I would like to talk to you about the way in which we should receive the Gospel: about the encounter between politics and mysticism. 8 Feb [Reflection] - Sue Keegan von Allmen (176KB) 09/02/2009, I've always been a little uneasy about the story of Jesus healing Simon's Mother-in-law. It look suspicious to me. Jesus and his pals go to Peter's home to grab a meal in the middle of their busy lives, only to find the person who should have been cooking for them, is ill. 1 Feb - Leao Neto (533KB) 03/02/2009, What is the role of dreams and creativity, especially, in times of recession? The present economic climate demands creativity in spending money. The recession encourages me to do even more of what I always did, look for bargains. Have you noticed that Waitrose reduces the price of bread? I can spot the loaves with 'reduced' tags from a distance! 25 Jan - Kenneth Greet [The Annual Soper Sermon] (137KB) 26/01/2009, On a bitter February morning in 1977 I sat in Gatwick Airport waiting for the fog to clear and the ice to be removed from the runway. My plane to Belfast was delayed by an hour, but when I eventually arrived a small group of distinguished people was waiting for me. At the centre of this group was a little lady called Sadie Patterson.