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Ken Howcroft
Sermons, talks etc at Solihull Methodist Church UK; Ponte Sant'Angelo Methodist Church, Rome; and elsewhere
Episodes
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08 November 2015 Solihull Baptism, Remembrance, Communion
"Blessed are you..." Bible readings: Psalm 46; Matthew 5:1-12 A Baptism. An Act of Remembrance on Remembrance Sunday. Communion. They are linked together in the experience of blessing. Bringing someone (in this case a child) for baptism is a sign of hope, a commitment to a future with a loving…
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25 Oct 2015 Solihull Dedication of Pastoral Visitors
Prayer, Care and Making Disciples Bible readings: Ephesians 4:7,11-13; Mark 6:30-44 "On our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light" sang Wesley. Is this a place where we can be honest like that about what it is to be human? Some people here are finding life very hard at the moment;...
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18 October 2015 Warwick Northgate Methodist Church
World Church Sunday Bible readings (including the Gospel for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B): 1 Corinthians 1: 1-3; Mark 10:35-45 Paul send greetings to the Christians in Corinth encouraging them to grow in holiness. As part of that they have to recognise that they are connected in Christ…
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11 October 2015 Coleshill United
"Facing the darkness" Bible readings for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B): Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Mark 10:17-31 There have been two significant deaths recently in this community. Sometimes it feels as if we can only see death, that we are always looking at disaster, and we do not know how to…
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04 Oct 2015 Solihull 9 am Communion
A hard saying? Bible reading for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B): Mark 10:2-16 What are we to make of divorce? What did Jesus make of divorce? What is God's hope or intention for human relationships? What provision does God make if we fail to live up to that intention? Does it make a...
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27 Sept 2015 Coleshill United Church
"Staying salty together" 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Bible readings: Psalm 19; Mark 9:38-50 What does it mean if people who have always exercised power over us ask for our forgiveness? Is it possible to forgive people for what their predecessors did to ours? But if we cannot forgive are we not...
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20 September 2015 Shirley
"Being the last of all and the servant of all" Bible readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B): James 3:13 - 4:3, 7-8a(NRSV); Mark 9:30-37 Over the years the Troubles in Ireland have been attributed to disputes between Roman Catholics and Protestants, even when matters of faith do…
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13 Sept 2015 Solihull Rededication
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (I Cor. 3:16) A sermon at the Re-dedication of Solihull Methodist Church following a refurbishment of the sanctuary. Bible readings: 1 Kings 8:22-30; Luke 4:16-21. What a wonderful space! What a magnificent...
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PSA 15 April 2012 Second Sunday of Easter
Ken Howcroft “My Lord and my God!”. Today is a time to reflect on the significance of the great events we celebrated last Sunday. Is it easier for us to cope with the events of that first Easter than it was for those first disciples or more difficult? They must have been overwhelmed by what was...
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PSA 08 April 2012 Easter Sunday and Confirmation
Ken Howcroft. “Christ is Risen!”. Why have we come here today? What are we looking for? If you are looking for irrefutable evidence that Jesus has been raised which will enable you to say “Oh thank goodness for that, now I know that it is true” and then enable you to walk out of this place and…
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PSA 01 April 2012 Palm Sunday
Ken Howcroft. “Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord”. A sermon for Palm Sunday, the second Sunday of the Passion. Have you heard the rumours that Jesus is coming to Rome this weekend with some of his friends? How will you recognise him amongst all the tourists and pilgrims? He…
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PSA 25 March 2012 Passion Sunday
Ken Howcroft. “We Want to See Jesus”. Do the Pope and Fidel Castro want to meet when the Pope goes to Cuba? Intermediaries are doubtless going to and fro trying to make the link. In the Gospel reading we hear of Gentiles who are interested in God as known by the Jews at the time of Jesus, but who...
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PSA 18 March 2012 4th Sunday in Lent
Ken Howcroft. “God So Loved the World……”: readings Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-21. A sermon for the fourth Sunday in Lent, preached whilst the Rome Marathon was going past the door of the Church! The children of Israel were on a marathon journey through the wilderness. They were tempted to make...
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PSA 04 March 2012
Ken Howcroft “Taking up your Cross and Following”. What on earth can we say about what is going on in Homs in Syria? It begins to feel like a situation without hope. All we can do is hold people before God and believe that somehow God will be able to redeem the mess, and bring hope out of despair...
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PSA 19 February 2012
Ken Howcroft. “Transfiguration: transforming the way we see”. The story of the Transfiguration is not about Jesus changing from something he wasn’t into something else. Jesus was always filled with the glory and the love of God. What the story is about is the change in the way the disciples...
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PSA 12 February 2012
Ken Howcroft. “You can make me clean”. Think of the things you would not expect Jesus to do for you, because “you do not deserve them” or because “you are not good enough”. Then hear Jesus saying to you like he said to that man in the Gospel reading “I am angry that you think that I am not going…
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PSA 05 February 2012
Ken Howcroft. “Praying, Proclaiming and Evicting Evil”. A sermon for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (after Epiphany). When Rome has its worst snow for 25 years and grinds to a halt, and you are trying to get a guest to the airport, you have to become like the Romans, react like them and go with...
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PSA 29 January 2012
Ken Howcroft. “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?”. Is it alright to take things from other cultures (food, statues and images, Christmas trees, festival dates etc) and make use of them as Christians? And if it is, what do we do about those people who have doubts or scruples about...
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Anglican Centre Rome 24.01.12 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
A sermon for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by Ken Howcroft at the weekly Tuesday lunchtime eucharist at the Anglican Centre, Rome. It is published here by kind permission of The Very Revd Canon David Richardson, who is the Director of the Centre and The Archbishop of Canterbury's...
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22 January 2012 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
A sermon for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the service organised by Churches Together in Rome and hosted by Ponte Sant’Angelo Methodist Church. The preacher was Dr Donna Orsuto, a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Co-founder and Director of the Lay Centre at Foyer...
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