The Stockton Anglican

Sermon for All Saints Sunday (Sunday November 3rd) 2024 Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE 'The Good News of the Christian Faith is that Jesus is the only way that unity will ever really ‘work’: That Jesus brings together all from any background, whatever they have done, whoever they are - that the Church uniquely can honour what is brought in from the multitude of cultur...

Sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity, Year B (October 27th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that God did not forget you for ever trapped in sin and death, but 2,000 years died for you on the Cross to save you, meets you right now and walks with you through life, and will not forget you when Jesus returns to usher in the New Heavens and the New Earth at t...

Sermon for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, Year B (October 20th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 23, Year B) - Sunday October 13th 2024 Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News is that, having already saved you for eternity by his self-sacrificial Death & Resurrection, Jesus invites you to trust in his providing hand & ‘get stuck in’ with all that he has given you.

Proper 22, Year B (Sunday October 6th 2024)

Sunday September 29th, 2024 Manuscript available HERE Supplemental Notes available HERE 'The Good News is that in the ministry of angels between God & Man, we see God’s heart of perfect love towards us; that all that God appoints his angels to do points us to Jesus, God-Become-Man: His saving message, His guiding & protecting hand over his adopted family of faith, & His presence with u...

Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Year B (September 22nd, 2024)

Sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, Year B (September 15th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE "The Good News of the Christian Faith is that God can, does, and will work anything-and-everything through us according to HIS perfect will and purposes. His purposes of furthering the Kingdom of God that Jesus ushered in: The reality that Death & Evil...

Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, Year B (Sunday, September 8th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE " The Good News of the Christian Faith is that it is so much more than just ‘sit back and watch’: God invites us to ‘put down the popcorn’ and join his star-studded cast of saints on a world-bending action-adventure love-story to join him in redeemin...

Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Year B (September 1st, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE Psalm 15 Ephesians 6: 10-20 Mark 7: 1-23 "The Good News is that God WANTS YOU. Not just for you to DO things or SAY things or LIVE in a certain way…but God wants YOU. Loves you. Died for you to save you from death to live forever with him growing to more-and-more...

Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, Year B (August 25th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE "Where the bad news is that we’re all inclined towards ‘what’s in it for me?’ dipping in-and-out of committing to God when it’s convenient and it’s not, and we all completely deserve for God to say to us all you’re not really into this are you? The Good News is tha...

Sermon from Solemn Evensong + Holy Communion for St. Mary's Day (August 15th) 2024.

Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (August 11th, 2024) Proper 14, Year B Manuscript available HERE Supplementary Notes available HERE "The Good News of the Christian Faith is that we can ‘taste and see how gracious the LORD is’ - that Christianity is not blind faith or blind hope merely in things we read about that happened to somebody else a long time ago…but that God is at-work in...

Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE Sermon for the 10th Sunday after Trinity, Year B (Proper 13) Sunday August 4th 2024 Exodus 16: 2-15 Psalm 78: 1-26 Ephesians 4: 1-16 John 6: 24-35 The Good News of the Christian Faith is that you are loved by Jesus, provided -for by Jesus, & equipped by Jesus. That you have a beautiful, perfect purpose of perfect love from God your C...

Sermon #4 of 4 of the Summer 2024 sermon series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is: That in following Jesus, whatever we go through, we know that we can ‘trust God’s word’ - that ‘all things that God said will be fulfilled and come to be - not a single word of his speech will prove wrong’ - a...

Sermon #3 of 4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon #2 of #4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon #1 of #4 of the Summer 2024 Sermon Series on the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha. Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE

Sermon for Sunday, June 30th 2024 (Proper 8, Year B) Manuscript available HERE Supplementary notes available HERE The Good News of Christianity is that where we are all born spiritually poor and homeless, God in Jesus stepped into that, and opened the way back to him to be saved from that; to be made acceptable to God again by being given Jesus’ perfect heart, and to re-mold our own hearts more an...

Manuscript available HERE Supplemental notes available HERE Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity (June 23rd, 2024 - Proper 7, Year B) The Good News is that: Jesus died in your place so that you might live forever. Not just any life, not just carrying on ‘as-is’ forever - so much more than that - life growing in perfect, selfless love with God & each other forever. That news - that simple...

Sermon for Sunday June 16th 2024. Manuscript available HERE Supplemental notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian faith is that God gives the growth - that ‘giving it to God’ is not crossing your fingers & hoping for the best, but in Jesus is a promise that he is at-work in your heart & in the world around you for his good & holy purposes of perfect love.

Sermon for Sunday, June 9th 2024 (Proper 5, Year B) Manuscript available HERE Supplemental Notes available HERE The Good News of the Christian Faith is that God forgives all who come to him…and who keep coming back to him…and it is only by continually coming back to Jesus together that we can re-unite (with him and each-other) and remain united (with him and each-other).

The Good News is that Jesus only asks us to ‘put the word out there’ and let him do the rest: That Christianity is not a product to sell or have to cleverly present to people, but in lives of service to Christ lived out and shared in faith, its saving power will make itself known. Sermon for Proper 4, Year B (Sunday June 2nd, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Notes/Supplement available HERE

Sermon for Trinity Sunday, Year B (May 26th, 2024) Manuscript available HERE Sermon supplementary notes available HERE "The Good News of the Christian Faith is that nothing is ‘too much’ for God; nothing can ‘beat God’ - not even Death."

Taken from the Anglican Books of Homilies & Adapted/Modernised by Fr. Luke Childs Preached on Pentecost Sunday (May 19th) 2024 Manuscript available HERE Companion notes available HERE