Sermons from All Souls Church

Richard continues our "Wisdom to Live By" series, looking at the topic of wisdom for work.

Richard introduces a new series looking at 'wisdom' in the Bible, looking at Proverbs 1:1-7 and asking what it means to have the 'fear of Yahweh' as the wise and solid foundation on which we build our lives.

Jez explores the idea that if we are to be good at forgiving others, we have to have looked full in the face of God's forgiveness of us. Matthew 18:21-35

Jez talks us through Jesus's story of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:12-24.

Rachel Wooden takes us through the story of the wise and foolish builders in Luke 6:46-49..

Jon recounts the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan, and challenges us to hear the story as it would have been heard when Jesus spoke it...

Richard Frank preaches on the parable of the Sower from Matthew 13 on July 31st 2016.

Jez examines how our attitude to money often makes us anxious because we forget the certain goodness of the Father and the certain treasure of the Kingdom.

Matthew 6:5-13. Jez explores the model prayer taught us by Jesus, as the way to place all our simplest activities and deepest longings into the Big Story of God's Kingdom.

Richard looks at the power of prayer in the story of the paralytic.

Following the EU referendum in the UK, Richard uses Psalm 1 to help describe a healthy Christian response...

Paul's motivations for prayer help us remember what's important: the faith, love and hope which should act as a source of all we do.

Jez looks at the idea that, in the in-betweeen-ness of waiting for our adoption as God's children, His Holy Spirit takes our groaning (for our selves, as well as with and for creation) and turns them into prayers beyond words.

Richard takes us through the coming of the Holy Spirit - the power, presence and commission of God which stays with each of us wherever we are.

Jez unpacks how the Ascension commissions the disciples - and us - to be the hands and feet of Jesus, continuing his work of bringing heaven and earth together under his kingship.

While Jesus meant our faith to be personal, he never meant it to be private. Jon takes us through the Great Commission in Matthew 28, which pushes our faith out into public mission.

Richard helps us to invite Jesus into the locked rooms of our lives, that we might sense, and become the first hint of the wholeness and peace of the world to come.

Richard takes us down the Road to Emmaus, unpacking more of what it means to come face to face with the risen Jesus.

Richard takes us on the disciples' journey of realisation that Jesus had really risen from the dead.

What does it mean to remain in Jesus? Jez reflects on this rich image of life in the resurrected Christ.

Richard digs into the upside-down notion of the cross of Christ as the glory of God.

Rachel invites us to witness death being defeated, and to believe that he can do the same in each of us.

John 9: Jez explores this classic story of rising conflict between two contrasting responses to the light of Jesus.

Jon Wooden looks at the encounter that a Samaritan woman had with Jesus, and how we can experience His streams of living water today...

Richard unpacks Jesus' promises to be bread, water and light for us in the wilderness of life...